The phrase "assessed difficulties with" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the evaluation or analysis of challenges or problems encountered in a specific context.
Example: "The team assessed difficulties with the new software implementation during the project review."
Alternatives: "evaluated challenges regarding" or "analyzed issues with".
However, the Iowa study assessed dependence in self-care while this study assessed difficulty with Activities of Daily Living, a more standard assessment of functional impairment in geriatric medicine.
Items assess difficulty with falling asleep, restlessness of sleep, difficulty getting comfortable, difficulty staying asleep, degree of deep sleep, degree of being rested when waking up for the day, difficulty with beginning the day, and degree of having enough sleep during the previous night.
GIPD is an internally consistent, reliable and valid measure to assess difficulties in children with ADHD at various times of the day and can be used as indicator for psychosocial impairment and QoL.
KOOS was developed to assess difficulties experienced by patients with joint injuries and knee OA and is commonly used to evaluate the effect of orthopedic surgery including Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACLR) [ 6, 7].
Overall, the GIPD can be considered an internally consistent, reliable and valid measure to assess difficulties experienced by children with ADHD throughout the day and can be used as an indicator for psychosocial impairment and quality of life [ 25].
To assess difficulties that occur during treatment with the Ilizarov external fixator, Paley's classification was used [17] to distinguish problems, obstacles and complications.
This informant-rated questionnaire assesses functional disabilities across 25 everyday tasks, using a ten-point Likert scale to assess difficulty: (1 = never has difficulty, 10 = always has difficulty), with the additional options of "I don't know' and 'Not applicable'.
This is a well-established, brief questionnaire, which we will use to assess participants' difficulties with physical and social functioning associated with their depression [ 26].
Therefore, as primary research outcome we assessed perceived difficulty with physical tasks, lifestyle, and physical fitness in a clinical sample of obese children compared to normal-weight and overweight children.
As per standard methods, health states were calculated for each participant based on their responses to the questionnaire's five items which assess perceived difficulty with mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain and discomfort and anxiety and depression respectively.
