Psychometric Properties of the Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index (HAQ-DI) and the Modified Health Assessment Questionnaire (MHAQ) in Patients with Knee Osteoarthritis

Psychometric evaluation of Stanford health assessment questionnaire 8-item disability index (HAQ 8-item DI) in elderly people

  Introduction: Measuring level of disability in elderly in attention to their physical status requires an instrument practicable in elderly and easy to score.   Objective: Survey the reliability and validity of the HAQ 8-item DI in older people residing in Kashan Golabchi nursing home.   Methods: In this methodological study, samples were chosen by census...

Comparison of the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) and the modified HAQ (MHAQ) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

OBJECTIVES Physical disability in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is often assessed by questionnaires. We compared the Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ) with the modified HAQ (MHAQ) in a cohort of RA patients across various levels of disability, and examined correlations with other measures of physical function. METHODS Patients with RA (n = 182) completed self-report questionnair...

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Measurement properties of the Health Assessment Questionnaire Disability Index for generalized osteoarthritis.

OBJECTIVE Generalized OA (GOA) is highly prevalent in OA. Individuals with GOA typically suffer from limitations of both upper and lower extremity function, yet we lack a validated instrument to assess their activity limitations. An appropriate instrument might be the HAQ Disability Index (HAQ-DI). Therefore the aim of this study was to evaluate the measurement properties of the HAQ-DI in GOA. ...

Pain and joint mobility explain individual subdimensions of the health assessment questionnaire (HAQ) disability index in patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

OBJECTIVE To explore the associations between individual subdimensions of the health assessment questionnaire (HAQ) and clinical variables in patients with rheumatoid arthritis. METHODS 304 patients with rheumatoid arthritis (73% female, mean (SD) age, 58 (13) years; disease duration 6 (9) years, 69% rheumatoid factor positive) completed the HAQ for functional capacity (0-3) and a 100 mm visu...