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In future studies on computer-tailoring, the burden of filling in (screening) questionnaires should be brought to a minimum in order to keep participants motivated, e.g. by creating a joint questionnaire, for both evaluative and tailoring purposes.
Although neither HRW nor the ICG have voiced interest in creating an in-house epidemiological capacity, both have expressed an interest in public health collaboration, including joint questionnaire design and better use of existing epidemiological results.
In particular, the FPs participated in joint questionnaire design in Kampala in June 2011 and were primarily responsible for piloting the tools, incorporating any changes, collecting and analyzing data, organizing internal result-sharing workshops, documenting capacity development plans, and disseminating findings at a regional workshop held in December 2011 in Nairobi.
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Participants were recruited from an ongoing cohort study (the NorStOP study; see Thomas et al. 2004 for further details) in which they completed a general health and joint pain questionnaire.
The Work, Osteoarthritis or joint-Replacement Questionnaire (WORQ) was developed to assess physical difficulty experienced in work before or following total knee arthroplasty (TKA).
Second, the patient-relevant outcomes like functional outcome measured by joint specific questionnaires (Patient Rated Wrist Evaluation for the wrist and Foot and Ankle Outcome score and AOFAS for the ankle and calcaneus) will be determined.
The scores of the functional outcomes determined by joint specific questionnaires at 1 year postoperative will be expressed as means and standard deviations (SD) in case of a normal distribution.
However, since different PROs have different abilities to capture real symptoms and disabilities not only experienced by but also important for patients, we also used different and joint specific questionnaires.
Therefore, co-morbidities appear to compromise the specificity of the OHS in evaluating disability resulting from hip symptoms, although joint specific questionnaires are designed to exclude the effects of co-morbidities.
Therefore, we decided against using several joint-specific questionnaires, and derived a new scale from two existing, validated questionnaires [ 28, 29].
The KOOS and HOOS are joint-specific questionnaires, developed to assess participants' opinion about their knee or hip problems.
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