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The IS-CA measures functional impairment on four dimensions: mental, somatic, social-communicative, and performance.
We used the Work and Social Adjustment Scale (WSAS), a self-report 5-item scale that measures functional impairment attributable to an identified problem or disorder.
The SF-36 measures functional impairment in eight domains or subscales; the mental health sub scales can be collapsed into the Mental Component Summary (MCS) Score reflecting overall mental health [ 48].
The Health Assessment Questionnaire 2 (HAQ 2) [ 15], a validated derivation of the Stanford modified Health Assessment Questionnaire, which measures functional impairment, was utilized as an indicator of RA severity.
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Mini-Asthma QoL measures functional impairments that are most troublesome to subjects with asthma during the 2 weeks prior to responding to the survey, and has four domains: 1) symptoms (5 items); 2) activity limitation (4 items); 3) emotional function (3 items); and 4) environmental stimuli (3 items).
The VF-14 aims to measure functional impairment in patients with cataracts.
The CGAS is an instrument designed to measure functional impairment in children and has acceptable and discriminant validity [ 22, 23] CGAS is rated on a 100-point score and a score of ≤70 indicates presence of functional impairment.
Eighty-three patients were asked to fill in the Euroqol-5 Dimensions (EQ-5D) and Euroqol Visual analogue scale (VAS) measuring HR-QoL, while their attending doctors assessed the Karnofsky performance scale, measuring functional impairment, at the outpatients clinic.
However, in determining the adequacy of an instrument for measuring functional impairment in clinical trials of ADHD treatment, the results of this study suggest that the WFIRS-P has acceptable measurement properties that support the reliability and validity of the instrument as a measure of functional impairment in clinical trials.
These include not measuring functional impairment, relatively low levels of associations between distress scores and external criterion variables, double-loading items in EFA models, and suboptimal RMSEA statistics in CFA models for the ASCL.
Since considering methodological aspects of epidemiology of mental health problems is not adequate for an appreciation of understanding the burden of child and adolescent mental health problems, measuring functional impairment can provide important information on the (individual) burden.
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