Original articleMeasuring Participation as Defined by the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: An Evaluation of Existing Measures
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Search Strategy
We searched PubMed, Cumulated Index of Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and Health and Psychosocial Instruments databases to locate articles describing the development and validation of measures of social functioning to identify appropriate measures. Because the terms participation, social participation, and handicap are not used in PubMed's MESH vocabulary for indexing articles, we used combinations of MESH terms that we believed were closest in meaning to the ICF term of participation in
Results
We identified a total of 40 measures that met the inclusion criteria for initial review. Content analysis of these measures revealed that several were broader measures of QOL and health and did not focus on the measurement of participation and/or its negative connotation disability. Thus, the team decided to exclude from our report those measures that did not contain a majority of items that were linkable to participation. Table 1 lists the 34 measures that were included in our initial
Discussion
We reviewed self-report measures containing items related to 2 or more chapters of activities and participation as defined by the ICF. Our review was unique in that we included both generic and condition-specific measures developed for diverse populations including those with head injury, mental illness, and physical disabilities. We believe that our analysis of content and dimension coverage can be used by clinicians and researchers to inform their choice of the most appropriate measure for
Conclusions
We reviewed 40 self-report measures containing items that assess 2 or more chapters of participation. We identified only 5 measures whose items were linked to all 9 chapters of activities and participation: the Community Living Skills Scale,48 the LIFE-H,49 the MPAI,60 the participation measure for postacute care,51 and the PAIS.52 We described each of these measures and performed detailed linking of items within each of these measures to subcategories within the ICF activities and
Acknowledgments
The authors would like to acknowledge the invaluable technical assistance of Debra Kelty, MPA, Regina Lynch, BA, BS, and Melanie Parente, BA.
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Supported by the Veteran's Administration Health Services Research and Development Service (grant no.TRP-04-179), Rhode Island Foundation (grant no. 20052665), and National Research Service Award (grant no. HS00011-22).
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