作者
Michele Vitacca, Mara Paneroni, Paola Baiardi, Vito De Carolis, Elisabetta Zampogna, Stefano Belli, Mauro Carone, Antonio Spanevello, Bruno Balbi, Giorgio Bertolotti
发表日期
2016/6/7
期刊
International journal of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
页码范围
1199-1206
出版商
Taylor & Francis
简介
Background
As Barthel Index (BI) quantifies motor impairment but not breathlessness, the use of only this index could underestimate disability in chronic respiratory disease (CRD). To our knowledge, no study evaluates both motor and respiratory disability in CRD during activities of daily living (ADLs) simultaneously and with a unique tool. The objective of this study was to propose for patients with CRD an additional tool for dyspnea assessment during ADLs based on BI items named Barthel Index dyspnea.
Methods
Comprehensibility, reliability, internal consistency, validity, responsiveness, and ability to differentiate between disease groups were assessed on 219 subjects through an observational study performed in an in-hospital rehabilitation setting.
Results
Good comprehensibility, high reliability (interrater intraclass correlation coefficient was 0.93 [95% confidence interval 0.892–0.964] and test–retest intraclass …
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