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This 36-item questionnaire is organized into 8 multi-item scales assessing physical functioning, role functioning-physical, role functioning-emotional, pain, vitality, social functioning, mental health, and general health perceptions.
Therefore, by linking their content to the comprehensive ICF core set for RA, this review provides the first assessment of the content validity of included generic scales for assessing physical functioning of patients with RA.
Notably, assessing mental/emotional well-being was regularly reported as equally important to assessing physical functioning, symptoms, and side effects.
Content validity should be assessed by making judgments about the relevance and the comprehensiveness of the items for assessing physical functioning of patients with RA [ 19].
Timed up and go test (TUG) [ 47], Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB) [ 48, 49] and backwards walking [ 50, 51] will be used for assessing physical functioning.
The self-report questionnaire contains eight sub-scales assessing physical functioning, social functioning, role limitations (physical), role limitations (emotional), pain, mental health, general health and vitality.
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Self-report questionnaires and performance measures represent two methods for assessing physical function.
Thus, assessing physical function in a population that is expected to have low functioning using existing measures has proven challenging.
The authors retain the question about a "long walk" for assessing physical function.
The BASFI comprises 10 items assessing physical function over the preceding week [ 25].
Thirdly, the methods for assessing physical function, physical performance and frailty in the studies included in our review were heterogeneous.
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