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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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Measuring health and disability: supporting policy development. The European MHADIE project

TL;DR: MHADIE researchers showed that the ICF model is adequate for describing and measuring patterns of disability in clinical samples from different countries cross-sectionally and over time as well as feasible and useful in educational sectors.
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Patterns of intimate partner violence among perinatal women with depression symptoms in Khayelitsha, South Africa: a longitudinal analysis.

TL;DR: There is a strong association between IPV and depression in pregnancy, although the reason for this reduction over time for the women in this study is not clear and requires further investigation.
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Depression and Its Associated Factors in Older Indians: A Study Based on Study of Global Aging and Adult Health (SAGE)-2007.

TL;DR: Protective and risk factors identified can be helpful in formulation of different policies for older Indians informed by WHO's Study of Global Aging and Adult Health, SAGE-2007.
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The Rights of Persons with Disability Act, 2016: Challenges and opportunities.

TL;DR: The Rights of P WD Act, 2016 (RPWD Act 2016) replaced the PWD Act 1995 to comply with the UNCRPD and was fine-tuned considering the socio-cultural and local needs of the society, and the available resources.
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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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