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Use Of Measure Disability And Level Of An Individual's Health

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Currently, two other instruments are utilized to measure disability and level of functioning. The two instruments are: 1.) The RAND 36-Item Short Form Survey (SF-36) and
2.) the Functional Independence Measure (FIM) (Üstün et al., 2010b). Both of these measures are often compared to the WHODAS 2.0. However, they both vary slightly from the WHODAS
2.0. The SF-36 is a generic quality of life measurement that assesses an individual’s health status (Ware, 2000). This measureme relies specifically on an individual’s self-reported perceptions related to the following eight domains: physical functioning, bodily pain, role limitations due to physical health problems, role limitations due to personal or emotional problems, emotional well-being, social functioning, energy/fatigue, and general health (Ware,
2000). The SF-36 is heavily utilized by managed care organizations and Medicare when monitoring and assessing progress in adult individuals (Ware, 2000). In regards to scoring the
SF-36, this is a two-step process in which scores have to be recoded and then averaged together to create scale scores for each domain (Ware, 2000). Research on the SF-36 has concluded that it is relatively easy to score, as long as clinicians follow the two-step scoring process (Ware,
2000). It is also important to note that the SF-36 is in the public domain, available in multiple languages, and has good reliability and validity (Ware, 2000). However, one of the major
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