United States (US) multi-center study to assess the validity and reliability of the Spinal Cord Independence Measure (SCIM III)

Autor: S. Salles, S. Koltenuk, J. L. Theis, M. Whitney, John A. Horton, M. Jennings, K. S. Kelley, Janos Nagy, C. Z. Tolfo, Susan J. Harkema, Kim D. Anderson, M. D. Scott, Keith E. Tansey, Mary Schmidt Read, Karen Greenwald, Jeanne M. Zanca, Steve Kirshblum, Mary Joan Roach, Daniel E. Graves, Ronald K. Reeves, S. Chun, M. N. Huang, Deborah Backus, Inger Ljungberg, L. Nicolini, C. M. Winter, M. E. Acuff, S. M. Kessler, Carla Williams, B. G. Arp, S. L. Groah, J. E. Fjerstad, William M. Scelza, K. Fisher, M. Linke
Rok vydání: 2011
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Zdroj: Spinal Cord. 49:880-885
ISSN: 1476-5624
1362-4393
DOI: 10.1038/sc.2011.20
Popis: Multi-center, prospective, cohort study. To assess the validity and reliability of the Spinal Cord Independence Measure (SCIM III) in measuring functional ability in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). Inpatient rehabilitation hospitals in the United States (US). Functional ability was measured with the SCIM III during the first week of admittance into inpatient acute rehabilitation and within one week of discharge from the same rehabilitation program. Motor and sensory neurologic impairment was measured with the American Spinal Injury Association Impairment Scale. The Functional Independence Measure (FIM), the default functional measure currently used in most US hospitals, was used as a comparison standard for the SCIM III. Statistical analyses were used to test the validity and reliability of the SCIM III. Total agreement between raters was above 70% on most SCIM III tasks and all κ-coefficients were statistically significant (P
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