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Measures of work functioning in individuals with arthritis: A systematic planned out, orderly, regular review
Review go over, check Question
What is the quality of the tools that are used to measure work functioning among individuals with arthritis pain in joints; disease illness, sickness of the joints that causes swelling, pain, heat, and a sense of stiffness and rheumatologic conditions?
Background
Many individuals with arthritis pain in joints; disease illness, sickness of the joints that causes swelling, pain, heat, and a sense of stiffness have a hard time working. Several many tools have been used to assess review, sum up, evaluate, to determine figure out, decide, find out, test value, find the level of work functioning for individuals with arthritis pain in joints; disease illness, sickness of the joints that causes swelling, pain, heat, and a sense of stiffness and rheumatologic conditions. "Work functioning" includes (1) performing specific tasks in a job and (2) participating in a work role (for example, maintaining full-time hours). This review go over, check evaluates the evidence on assessments that have been used to measure work functioning. Researchers need high-quality tools to accurately measure the effects of work-related interventions.
Search Date
The search took place on November 24, 2014.
Study Characteristics
The review go over, check includes studies that aimed to develop create, change, grow an assessment of work functioning. To be included, studies had to include an assessment of work functioning for adults (ages 18?65 years) with arthritis pain in joints; disease illness, sickness of the joints that causes swelling, pain, heat, and a sense of stiffness or other rheumatologic conditions. Studies also had to collect information information, to learn more from participants using a questionnaire. Included studies were published in English in peer-reviewed journals. Seventeen articles met these criteria.
NIDILRR Affiliation
90RT5009 (formerly H133B100003): ENhancing ACTivity and Participation for Persons with Arthritis pain in joints; disease illness, sickness of the joints that causes swelling, pain, heat, and a sense of stiffness (ENACT); 90AR5012 (formerly H133P120001): Post-Doctoral Training in Rehabilitation Outcomes Measurement Research
Key Results
The quality of the assessments varied. None of the assessments had strong high-quality evidence in terms of reliability, measurement error, criterion sign, standard validity, or responsiveness. Reliability measures how much of the difference between people's scores is due to "true" differences. Measurement error considers how a person's score may vary change, shift even if their "true" score doesn't change. Criterion sign, standard validity truth, proof addresses how well the assessment lines up with another high-quality tool. Responsiveness is about the assessment's ability skill, are able, can to detect find, discover changes over time.
The Work Limitations Questionnaire had the best quality of evidence in terms of internal consistency and content validity, followed by the Work Instability Scale. Internal consistency addresses whether the questions on the assessment are related to each other, which helps to make sure the assessment is measuring what it's supposed to measure. Content validity truth, proof addresses whether the assessment is representative of what it's trying to measure.
Based on this review, research is still needed to judge whether assessments of work functioning are of high enough quality to be useful. If researchers use low-quality assessments, they might fail to understand know, to get the effects of an intervention. care
Use of Statistics
The review go over, check uses tables to summarize the relevant statistics reported in each study. Using these results, the review go over, check rates each study according to the Consensus-Based Standards for the Selection of Health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) system.
Quality of Evidence
The quality of the evidence is mixed. This is discussed under "Key Results" because the review's purpose was to assess review, sum up, evaluate, to determine figure out, decide, find out, test value, find the quality of the evidence.
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