The biopsychosocial model of the WHO Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health ICFF) provides the model, as well as the classification system, that allows to measure all dimensions of functioning and disability[3].
In 2010, the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) created the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC), a research framework for integrating multiple units of information to explicate basic dimensions of functioning underlying both adaptive and maladaptive behavior.
Thirty-six questions reflect eight dimensions of functioning, with a range of 0 to 100.
The assessment of QoL has increasingly moved toward a modular approach, which allows for the evaluation of multiple dimensions of functioning.
The PedsQL4.0 modules consist of 23 items, which are broken down into four dimensions of functioning: physical, emotional, social, and school.
The GAF is a clinician-rated scale giving a measure of overall psychiatric disturbance integrating three dimensions of functioning: psychological, social and occupational.
Articles were not included if they had assessed fewer than 10 patients with BD, were only published in abstract form or only assessed single dimensions of functioning.
The SF-36 comprises 36 items that describe the following eight dimensions of functioning: Physical Functioning, Physical Role Limitation, Bodily Pain, General Health, Vitality, Social Functioning, Emotional Role Limitation, and Mental Health.
The ability to connect comparable data on different dimensions of functioning to rich databases on individual and household variables has the potential to support important analyses for a wide range of questions concerning shifting determinants of health in older adults in settings undergoing dramatic socio-demographic changes.
We considered four dimensions of work functioning for workers with CMDs relevant as potential effects of exposure in vivo [ 30].
