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the present article evaluates the evidence relating to the conceptual adaptation, applicability and psychometric properties of activities of daily living measures in Spanish elderly people.to obtain original documents, electronic searches were carried out in Spanish (IME and ISOC) and international databases (MEDLINE, PsycInfo, CINAHL and EMBASE). Manual searches and reference searches were also conducted.34 articles relating to 4 instruments met the inclusion criteria: the Barthel Index, the Katz Index, the Red Cross Scale of Physical Disability and the Subscale of Personal Care Activities from the OARS. Overall, the results show a large number of versions for each instrument with weak transcultural adaptation processes and without standards for their administration or interpretation. The most frequently evaluated reliability measure was interrater reproducibility. The evidence on predictive validity is extensive, but the evidence on concurrent validity and responsiveness is almost nil.one version of the Barthel index and another one of the Katz index are the two versions about which the largest quantity of information has been obtained. |
