The "Timed up and go test" (TUG) is designed to measure basic mobility function.
Main Outcome Measures: Standardized tests were used to measure mobility, upper limb function, activities of daily living (ADL ability), and mood.
Item bank accuracy and coverage was satisfactory throughout the entire continuum of mobility, with the exception of the upper level of capacity, suggesting the desirability of replenishing the item bank with items that measure at high mobility function level.
After obtaining informed consent the research assistant will gather residents' demographic information and measure residents' baseline mobility, function, and health-related quality of life in both the intervention and control groups (see Figure 1).
RESULTS: Symptom scores correlated with mobility function measures (Spearman correlation coefficients ranged from 0.222 to 0.509) at least as strongly as, if not more strongly than, did disease scores.
OBJECTIVES: To describe the relationship between symptom scores and mobility function measures, assess whether symptom scores and disease scores are similarly associated with mobility function, and identify clusters of symptoms that are most strongly associated with functional status in older adults.
To develop and validate an item bank to measure mobility in older people in primary care and to analyse differential item functioning (DIF) and differential bundle functioning (DBF) by sex.
Their mobility, function in basic activities of daily living, and health-related quality of life will be measured at baseline, 3 months and 6 months.
How can we measure mobility?
We created an index to measure mobility.
