Traumatic spinal cord injury is a devastating condition impacting adversely on the health and wellbeing, functioning and independence, social participation and quality of life of the injured person.
The MDS is a standardized and comprehensive assessment instrument that describes medical diagnoses, chronic health conditions, medication use and other interventions, cognitive function, psychosocial wellbeing, functional status, and other aspects of the health of patients residing in LTC facilities.
They also reported "long-term improvements in emotional wellbeing, social function and overall quality of life", which lasted for up to nine months, according to the MS Society, which funded the study.
These items correspond to the Interpersonal, Wellbeing, Transcendent, Function and Symptoms domains respectively.
QoL in ADHD is influenced by numerous factors [ 35], including physical, psychological, cognitive and social aspects of wellbeing and function [ 14].
The tool consists of two parts; part one consists of 5 items (referred to as EQ-5D) related to wellbeing and function: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort and anxiety/depression.
Specifically, we compared physical functioning, role limitation due to physical health, role limitations due to emotional problems, vitality, emotional wellbeing, social functioning, bodily pain, and general health perceptions across socio-demographic/ clinical characteristics.
The first, global self-rated mental health [ 20], captures emotional wellbeing and role functioning, while the second, global quality of life [ 21], has concordance with the EQ-5D measure of health outcomes [ 22].
However, other studies concluded to contradictory results (i.e. there is no significant association between characteristics of parental physical ill health and adolescent functioning) suggesting the unclear impact of parental health status on adolescents' wellbeing and functioning [ 33].
This group, along with people with low literacy skills, will also face exclusion from routine patient monitoring and broad quality improvement schemes based on PROMs data if they cannot use PROMs to accurately convey their perceived health, wellbeing and functioning.
