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This study of the OA-FUNCTION-CAT functional difficulty and functional pain item banks and CAT scales showed strong psychometric properties in this sample of persons with hip and/or knee OA.

Breadth of item coverage for the OA-FUNCTION-CAT functional difficulty and functional pain item banks and corresponding WOMAC scales is shown in Figure 2. Item coverage is displayed as the range of a person's scores that correspond to the highest and lowest values of expected item response categories in each scale.

Confirmatory factor analyses revealed distinct functional difficulty and functional pain domains.

The remaining fit statistics were very similar for the two domains: CFI values were 0.91 and 0.90 for functional difficulty and functional pain, respectively; TLI values were 0.96 for both; and RMSEA values were 0.090 and 0.096, respectively.

Our assessment of the breadth of the item banks indicated that the functional difficulty and functional pain item banks improved significantly on the content and scale coverage of the WOMAC.

Subjects reported their degree of functional difficulty and functional pain in performing each activity in the item bank and completed the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC).

Following from completion of CCSQ, three categories of health conditions were measured; chronic conditions, learning difficulties and functional difficulties (Table 1).

In lung RFA, as in many other interventional procedures, the traditional morphological imaging techniques to evaluate treatment response have difficulties and functional imaging techniques may potentially be more useful.

Of the other health (pain; self-perceived general health; vision and hearing related difficulties screen) and functional (functional change; functional decrease; IADL) measures, all were highly significantly associated with depressed mood (P < 0001), with the 'risk' for depressed mood being 4-times higher amongst those with VFQ-poor vision, and having fair or poor self-perceived general health.

Older adults may be at risk for undernutrition due to anorexia, altered taste and smell, swallowing difficulties, oral/dental issues, and functional impairments leading to difficulties in preparing or consuming food.

A 17 year old female patient was referred to our clinic from the department of pedodontics, with dental anomalies, speech difficulty, and esthetic and functional problems.