PMID- 19882906
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20091216
LR  - 20151119
IS  - 1343-3490 (Print)
IS  - 1343-3490 (Linking)
VI  - 47
IP  - 10
DP  - 2009 Oct
TI  - [Development of an activity of daily living scale for patients with COPD: the 
      Activity of Daily Living Dyspnea scale].
PG  - 858-64
AB  - BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Patients with COPD often experience restriction in 
      their activities of daily living (ADL) due to dyspnea. 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 
      Dyspnea 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) dyspnea grade. RESULTS: There were 83 
      male participants who completed the pilot questionnaire. Following the pilot, 8 
      items that were not undertaken by the majority of subjects, and 3 items judged to 
      be of low clinical importance by physical therapists were removed from the pilot 
      questionnaire. The final ADL-D scale contained 15 items. Scores obtained with the 
      ADL-D scale were significantly correlated with the MRC dyspnea grades, distance 
      walked on the ISWT and SGRQ scores. The ADL-D scores were significantly different 
      across the five grades of the MRC dyspnea 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  - Department of Health Science, School of Kumamoto Health Science University.
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  - jpn
PT  - English Abstract
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Japan
TA  - Nihon Kokyuki Gakkai Zasshi
JT  - Nihon Kokyuki Gakkai zasshi = the journal of the Japanese Respiratory Society
JID - 9808802
SB  - IM
MH  - *Activities of Daily Living
MH  - Aged
MH  - Dyspnea/physiopathology
MH  - Humans
MH  - Male
MH  - Pilot Projects
MH  - Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/*physiopathology
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - Weights and Measures
EDAT- 2009/11/04 06:00
MHDA- 2009/12/17 06:00
CRDT- 2009/11/04 06:00
PHST- 2009/11/04 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2009/11/04 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2009/12/17 06:00 [medline]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Nihon Kokyuki Gakkai Zasshi. 2009 Oct;47(10):858-64.