background: to evaluate the patients with stroke by functional independence measure (fim) scale, at the times of admission to hospital, discharge, and six-month poststroke, and to determine the level of improvement in patients after rehabilitative procedures. methods: a total number of 108 patients with stroke entered the study who were admitted to neurology ward. they all received rehabilitati...

conclusions the results of this study show that applying cbr programs in the rural and remote areas can be effective in improving the qol of people with physical disability. results data were analyzed using spss software. the results demonstrated a significant difference in qol between the two groups (p > 0.002). participants in the cbr program group showed a higher level of qol compared with t...

conclusions this persian version of the fim can be used as a valid, reliable, and replicable instrument for research and rehabilitation purposes in tbi patients. results the inter-rater reliability was acceptable on admission and at discharge (icc = 0.779 to 0.895). the internal consistency of fim and its subscales were excellent (α ≥ 0.97). the results for criterion validity by adjusting the v...

conclusions more than half of the patients were disabled after 3 months of trauma. elderly patients, patient with severe trauma, and long hospitalization and patients with extremity injuries were high risk for disability. results the mean disability scores at 1 and 3 months post-injury was 30.3 (9.2) and 18.8 (8.3), respectively and there was a statistical significant difference between disabil...

height measurement is an important part of nutritional assessment especially in children. however, in such cases as hospitalized or certain kinds of malformations or disabilities, height cannot be measured accurately. we aimed to determine appropriate height predictors in iranian healthy children for further use in disabled and/or hospitalized children. a total of 730 apparently healthy childre...

conclusions although ceiling effects should be considered for rehabilitation targets, the two-factor model of fim (motor and cognitive independence) has an eligible fitness for iranian patients with tbi. results the results of this study showed that the floor effect was not observed; however, ceiling effects were observed for the fim total score and its subscales. the confirmatory factor analys...

background: few investigators have reported case fatality and disability of iranian patients with stroke. this study was designed to collect morbidity and case fatality data of hospitalized patients with stroke, and stroke care quality in isfahan, iran. methods: from 2006 to 2011, from overlapping sources (discharge diagnoses, attending physicians, and hospitalization wards), all hospitalized p...

This research examines the return to work by Disability Insurance beneficiaries who were first entitled to benefits in 1980-81 and who were originally selected to be interviewed in the New Beneficiary Survey. To facilitate an examination of actual labor-force participation by beneficiaries, information on work and participation in program work incentives was collected from their claims folders....

Family physicians are frequently asked to complete disability certification forms for workers. The certification process can be contentious because of the number of stakeholders, the varying definitions of disability and the nature of the administrative systems. Insufficient training on disability during medical school and residency complicates this process. Disability systems discussed include...

BACKGROUND Disability pension has increased in recent decades and is seen as a public health and socioeconomic problem in Western Europe. In the Nordic countries, the increase has been particularly steep among young women. PURPOSE The aim was to analyze the influence of low social integration, socioeconomic risk conditions and different measures of self-reported ill health on the risk of rece...