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The skate park restriction item also had poor agreement (kappa = 0.10), as did the presence of vandalism item (kappa = 0.22).
The IOI-HA presents seven questions addressing the amount of HA use (item 1), benefit (item 2), residual activity limitation (item 3), satisfaction (item 4), residual participation restriction (item 5), impact on others (item 6), and change of quality of life (item 7).
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The seeing severity index comprised of two ADL restriction items (Table 1).
The DASH contains five pure impairment items, 19 pure activity limitations items and three participation restriction items.
The resultant measures consisted of 9 Impairment items (Ab-I), 17 Activity Limitation items (Ab-A) and 9 Participation Restriction items (Ab-P).
The fit for Ab-P was improved over the fit with all the Participation Restriction items in the original item pool.
There were also no additional changes when all analyses were rerun with the resultant set of 15 Participation Restriction items (Cronbach's alpha = 0.875).
The item analysis resulted in the removal of 4 Impairment items, 9 Activity Limitation items and 11 Participation Restriction items with 14 of these items being identified by both CTT and IRT.
The 59-items presented to the participants were from the initial pool of items that had been previously identified as measuring only a single ICF construct [ 3] i.e. only impairment or activity limitation or participation restriction (13 Impairment, 26 Activity limitation, 20 Participation restriction items) [ 1].
The participation restriction items yielded the highest proportion of total problems and the most comprehension problems (Table 4), with item C14 'How healthy is your physical environment?' being identified as the most problematic item of the measures (this item being dropped in the Ab-IAP measures).
A statistical item analysis, combining classical test theory and item response theory, on this pool of 59 items has been reported elsewhere [ 1] and resulted in a subset of 35-items that formed the the Ab-IAP (9 Impairment, 17 Activity limitation and 9 Participation restriction items)[ 1].
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