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The latent structure originally designed by WHODAS-2 developers has been confirmed for the first time, and it has shown good metric properties in clinic and rehabilitation samples.
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Rehabilitation sample.
Figure 3 shows the item hierarchy of the German DEMMI (aged rehabilitation sample) compared to the original Australian English DEMMI (developed in an Australian aged acute hospitalized population) version.
Thus, the aim of this study was to examine these psychometric properties of the German DEMMI version in a geriatric rehabilitation sample in order to further complete the process of cross-cultural validation.
In the rehabilitation sample, item 3 (lie to sit), item 5 (sit to stand) and item 11 (walking distance) were easier and items 6 (sit to stand no arms) and item 15 (jump) were more difficult than for the acute sample, with non-overlapping 95% confidence bands.
There were 102 patients in the rehabilitation sample, including 22 who had spina bifida (21.6%), 20 with cerebral palsy (19.6%), 17 with neuromuscular disease (16.7%), 12 who had limb differences (11.8%), 6 who had experienced traumatic brain injuries (5.9%), and 25 with other diagnoses (24.5%).
In Part 2, in order to address the identified gaps in the literature, we used a combination of parametric and non-parametric techniques to explore dimensionality, internal consistency and responsiveness of the UK FIM + FAM in a large consecutive cohort of inpatients representing the diagnostic diversity of a general neuro-rehabilitation sample.
Figure 5 Observed decline in species diversity for 20 rehabilitation sites sampled three times from 1998 and 2000 at Goonyella Riverside mine.
Typically, in the field of aphasia rehabilitation research, sample sizes have been small, many trials have experienced high attrition rates, and few have considered the extent to which rehabilitation interventions have been adhered to, as factors which may have contributed to the trial results (Brady et al., 2012).
Also retrospectively, and for the present study, the ICF qualifiers and the Barthel Index were applied to the stroke-rehabilitation inpatients sample of this database.
The aims of this study are to review disability measuring instruments, apply them to a stroke-rehabilitation inpatients sample, and then study the results.
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