It is patient-administered and comprises eight subscales assessing physical and mental health to various degrees (Physical Function, Role-Physical, Bodily Pain, General Health, Vitality, Social Functioning, Role-Emotional and Mental Health) [ 16].
Each of the tests measures the subject's abilities to perform various mental and physical functions in different ways.
In contrast, subjective evaluations can determine combined risks of falling based on various information such as physical functions, daily activity status, and risky behaviors, although these evaluations cannot give clear, specific and objective risks for falling.
Besides the victims' self-reported problems with pain and perceived difficulties with various physical activities, objective measurement of physical functioning also showed that many of the victims had problems that affect their ability to cope with daily life and perhaps make them dependent on other family members for doing household chores and for earning a living[ 27- 29].
For example, correlations between summary scores from the Community Healthy Activities Model Program for Seniors (CHAMPS) Physical Activity Questionnaire and various measures of physical functioning ranged between 0.10 and 0.54 [ 16, 18- 20].
More research is needed to investigate which rehabilitation context is most effective for various aspects of physical function, as well as in patients with poorer baseline function.
Although progressive resistance strength training (ST) has been found to improve various measures of physical functioning in older adults, the benefit to quality of life is unclear.
The FIQ comprises a 10-item scale that evaluates the global impact of the illness on the patient, with a total score ranging between 0 and 80 points, derived from various questions about physical functioning, work status level, degrees of depression and anxiety, sleep alterations, severity of pain, stiffness, fatigue and the perception of wellbeing.
The channel current is analytically derived as a function of various physical and electrical parameters of the device including effective mass, length, temperature, and applied bias voltage.
