Concept elicitation interviews identified functional concepts of impairment including: difficulty performing tasks; difficulty related to interactions; and feelings of stress about difficulty with school work and performing tasks.
This indicates that children perceived greater difficulty performing tasks during hypoglycemia but not when glucose levels were >22.2 mmol/l, even though time to complete tasks increased significantly and equivalently at both blood glucose extremes.
Older adults with diabetes were more likely to report difficulty performing tasks in each functional group compared with older adults without diabetes; we did not find significant secular trends or evidence for effect modification by sex, race/ethnicity, or age-group.
Conversely, these patients were most satisfied with their physical function when they had little difficulty in performing tasks that were of importance to them.
It assesses the degree of difficulty in performing tasks in two domains; activities of daily living (ADL, 17 items) and sport (9 items).
For example, visual inspection of the boxplots for the Factors Walking Around Obstacles; Light; Mobility strongly suggest that as the severity of glaucoma gets worse, there is increasing difficulty in performing tasks.
The items of both subscales are graded from 0 (no pain or disability) to 10 (the worst imaginable pain or so much difficulty on performing tasks that help is required).
Figure 1 displays the distribution of these scores by glaucoma severity in better eye and shows that as the severity of glaucoma worsens, there is increasing difficulty in performing tasks for each factor.
Similar statistically significant trends were seen for older men or women who had lost their spouse compared to their married contemporaries (Fig. 3), with the single elderly female widow rating the most difficulty in performing tasks in any of the health domains.
As in previous studies, this study further revealed that increasing age (5, 8, 9, 11, 15, 16, 32), being female (11, 20, 32), being Black or Indian (28, 33), low education (10, 11, 32), low wealth status (10, 11, 13, 16, 32, 34), and not being married (11, 35, 36) were associated with poorer self-rated health, more difficulty in performing tasks, and lower QoL.
This study examined predictors of physical activity (Static Model) and activity change (Change Model) for individuals with type 1 (T1D) or type 2 diabetes (T2D) in a population sample of 1662 adults (510 type 1; 1152 type 2) using self-reported measures of co-morbidities, perceived difficulties in performing tasks of daily living (TDL), time since diagnosis, and selected demographic factors.
