Development and initial testing of a brief, generic self-reported disability questionnaire: The Universal Disability Index

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 19; no. 5; p. e0303102
• Main Author: Evans, David William
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 08.05.2024; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Activities of daily living; Adult; Aged; Biology and Life Sciences; Care and treatment; Chronic fatigue syndrome; Chronic pain; Computer and Information Sciences; Confidence intervals; Consistency; Data collection; Disability; Disability Evaluation; Disabled Persons; Engineering and Technology; Evaluation; Factor analysis; Factor Analysis, Statistical; Female; Humans; Information management; Male; Medicine and Health Sciences; Middle Aged; Performance evaluation; Physical Sciences; Psychometrics - methods; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of Results; Research and Analysis Methods; Restrictions; Self Report; Self-care, Health; Social networks; Stability; Surveys; Surveys and Questionnaires - standards; Training; Young Adult; United Kingdom

Disability is an important multifaceted construct. A brief, generic self-reported disability questionnaire that promises a broader and more comparable measure of disability than disease-specific instruments does not currently exist. The aim of this study was to develop and evaluate such a questionna...