Validation of the "World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule, WHODAS-2" in patients with chronic diseases

Olatz Garín; José Luís Ayuso‐Mateos; Josué Almansa; Marta Nieto‐Moreno; Somnath Chatterji; Gemma Vilagut; Jordi Alonso; Alarcos Cieza; Olga Svetskova; Helena Burger; Vittorio Racca; Carlo Francescutti; Eduard Vieta; Nenad Kostanjsek; Alberto Raggi; Matilde Leonardi; Montse Ferrer

doi:10.1186/1477-7525-8-51

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The latent structure originally designed by WHODAS-2 developers has been confirmed for the first time, and it has shown good metric properties in clinic and rehabilitation samples. Therefore, considerable support is provided to the WHODAS-2 utilization as an international instrument to measure disability based on the ICF model.

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