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Measuring health and disability : manual for WHO Disability Assessment Schedule : WHODAS 2.0

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The article was published on 2010-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1162 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Schedule.

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Towards optimal treatment selection for borderline personality disorder patients (BOOTS): a study protocol for a multicenter randomized clinical trial comparing schema therapy and dialectical behavior therapy

TL;DR: The BOOTS trial as mentioned in this paper is a multicenter randomized clinical trial conducted in a routine clinical setting in several outpatient clinics in the Netherlands, with 200 participants randomized to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Schema Therapy (ST).
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Exaggerated Functional Impairment due to Malingered Neurocognitive Dysfunction Following Mild Traumatic Brain Injury.

TL;DR: The combined evaluation of performance validity, function, and coherence analysis would appear to enhance the difficult clinical evaluation of postconcussion symptoms in the medical-legal setting.
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Are People Most in Need Utilising Health Facilities in Post-Conflict Settings? A Cross-Sectional Study from South Kivu, Eastern DR Congo

TL;DR: Greater reported healthcare need was significantly associated with health facility utilisation, and improving the availability and quality of health service packages at the primary healthcare level is necessary to ensure the universal health coverage goal advocating quality health for all can be achieved in post-conflict settings.
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Health needs analysis based on the functional assessment of workers seen in primary care.

TL;DR: The results indicated that less-educated individuals who were not actively working and had poor perceived health had the highest levels of disability.
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Effect of Problem-solving Treatment on Self-reported Disability Among Veterans With Gulf War Illness

TL;DR: In this paper , a randomized clinical trial of 268 veterans with Gulf War illness found no differences between problem-solving treatment and health education in reduction in disability at the end of the intervention (primary outcome).
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The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection.

John E. Ware, +1 more
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TL;DR: A 36-item short-form survey designed for use in clinical practice and research, health policy evaluations, and general population surveys to survey health status in the Medical Outcomes Study is constructed.
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A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey: Construction of Scales and Preliminary Tests of Reliability and Validity

TL;DR: Twenty cross-sectional and longitudinal tests of empirical validity previously published for the 36-item short-form scales and summary measures were replicated for the 12-item Physical Component Summary and the12-item Mental Component Summary, including comparisons between patient groups known to differ or to change in terms of the presence and seriousness of physical and mental conditions.
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SF-36 health survey: Manual and interpretation guide

John E. Ware
TL;DR: TheSF-36 is a generic health status measure which has gained popularity as a measure of outcome in a wide variety of patient groups and social and the contribution of baseline health, sociodemographic and work-related factors to the SF-36 Health Survey: manual and interpretation guide is tested.
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Statistical Theories of Mental Test Scores

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a survey of test theory models and their application in the field of mental test analysis. But the focus of the survey is on test-score theories and models, and not the practical applications and limitations of each model studied.
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