PMID- 19207122
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20090709
LR  - 20191210
IS  - 1440-1843 (Electronic)
IS  - 1323-7799 (Linking)
VI  - 14
IP  - 3
DP  - 2009 Apr
TI  - Development of an activity of daily living scale for patients with COPD: the 
      Activity of Daily Living Dyspnoea scale.
PG  - 429-35
LID - 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2009.01479.x [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Patients with COPD often experience restriction in 
      their activities of daily living (ADL) due to dyspnoea. This type of restriction 
      is unique to patients with COPD and cannot be adequately evaluated by the generic 
      ADL scales. This study developed an ADL scale (the Activity of Daily Living 
      Dyspnoea scale (ADL-D scale)) for patients with COPD and investigated its 
      validity and internal consistency. METHODS: Patients with stable COPD were 
      recruited and completed a pilot 26-item questionnaire. Patients also performed 
      the Incremental Shuttle Walk Test (ISWT), and completed the St. George's 
      Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ) and Medical Research Council (MRC) dyspnoea 
      grade. RESULTS: There were 83 male participants who completed the pilot 
      questionnaire. Following the pilot, eight items that were not undertaken by the 
      majority of subjects, and three items judged to be of low clinical importance by 
      physical therapists were removed from the questionnaire. The final ADL-D scale 
      contained 15 items. Scores obtained with the ADL-D scale were significantly 
      correlated with the MRC dyspnoea grades, distance walked on the ISWT and SGRQ 
      scores. The ADL-D scores were significantly different across the five grades of 
      the MRC dyspnoea grade. The ADL-D scale showed high consistency (Chronbach's 
      alpha coefficient of 0.96). CONCLUSIONS: The ADL-D scale is a useful scale for 
      assessing impairments in ADL in Japanese male patients with COPD.
FAU - Yoza, Yoshiyasu
AU  - Yoza Y
AD  - Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan. 
      yoza@kumamoto-hsu.ac.jp
FAU - Ariyoshi, Koya
AU  - Ariyoshi K
FAU - Honda, Sumihisa
AU  - Honda S
FAU - Taniguchi, Hiroyuki
AU  - Taniguchi H
FAU - Senjyu, Hideaki
AU  - Senjyu H
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Validation Study
DEP - 20090204
PL  - Australia
TA  - Respirology
JT  - Respirology (Carlton, Vic.)
JID - 9616368
SB  - IM
MH  - *Activities of Daily Living/psychology
MH  - Aged
MH  - Aged, 80 and over
MH  - *Disability Evaluation
MH  - Dyspnea/ethnology/*physiopathology/psychology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Japan
MH  - Male
MH  - Middle Aged
MH  - Pilot Projects
MH  - Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/ethnology/*physiopathology/psychology
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - *Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Walking/physiology
EDAT- 2009/02/12 09:00
MHDA- 2009/07/10 09:00
CRDT- 2009/02/12 09:00
PHST- 2009/02/12 09:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/02/12 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/07/10 09:00 [medline]
AID - RES1479 [pii]
AID - 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2009.01479.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Respirology. 2009 Apr;14(3):429-35. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1843.2009.01479.x. Epub 
      2009 Feb 4.