Outpatient physical therapy influences the patients' health-related quality of life

Advances in Physiotherapy

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 40-47

  Holm, Inger ^a   Risberg, May Arna ^b   Steen, Harald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

COOP WONCA charts; Functional health status; Outpatient physical therapy; Sensitivity to change over time

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; ARTHROPATHY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMOTION; FEMALE; FIBROMYALGIA; FITNESS; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HIP DISEASE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; KNEE DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL DISEASE; NECK INJURY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; OUTPATIENT CARE; PAIN ASSESSMENT; PATIENT REFERRAL; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PHYSIOTHERAPY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPINE DISEASE; TENDON DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

EID: 15444374065     PISSN: 14038196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14038190510009423     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Stratford PW, Binkley JM, Riddle DL. Health status measures: Strategies and analytic methods for assessing changes scores. Phys Ther 1996;76:1109-23.
2. Bentsen BG, Natvig B, Winnem M. Questions you didn't ask? COOP/WONCA Charts in clinical work and research. World Organization of Colleges, Academies and Academic Associations of General Practitioners/Family Physicists. Fam Pract 1999;16:190-5.
3. Kopec JA. Measuring functional outcome in persons with back pain. Spine 2000;25:3110-4.
4. Di Fabio RP, Boissonnault W. Physical therapy and health-related outcomes for patients with common orthopaedic diagnosis. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther 1998;27:219-30.
5. Van Weel C. Functional status in primary care: COOP/ WONCA charts. Disabil Rehabil 1993;15:96-101.
6. World Organisation of Family Doctors. 2001. COOP/ WONCA Charts-Multilingual resources. http://www.wonca.org./publications/coop-wonca/languages.htm
7. Lindegaard PM, Bentzen N, Christiansen T. Reliability of the COOP/WONCA charts. Test-retest completed by patients presenting psychosocial health problems to their general practitioner. Scand J Prim Health Care 1999;17: 145-8.
8. Unal G, de Boer JB, Borsboom GJJM, Brouwer JT, Essink-Bot ML, de Man RA. A psychometric comparison of health-related quality of life measures in chronic liver disease. J Clin Epidemiol 2001;54:587-96.
9. Lurie J. A review of generic health status measures in patients with low back pain. Spine 2000;25:3125-9.
10. Bentsen BG, Natvig B, Winnem M. Assessment of one's own functional status. COOP-WONCA questionnaire charts in clinical practice and research. Tidsskr Nor Laegeforen 1997;117:1790-3.
11. Kinnersley P, Peters T, Stott N. Measuring functional health status in primary care using the COOP-WONCA charts: Acceptability, range of scores, construct validity; reliability and sensitivity to change. Br J Gen Pract 1994;44:545-9.
12. Andres E, Temme M, Raderschatt B, Szecsenyi J, Sandholzer H, Kochen MM. COOP-WONCA charts: A suitable functional status screening instrument in acute low back pain? Br J Gen Pract 1995;45:661-4.
13. Peters TJ, Coast J, Richards SH, Gunnell DJ. Effect of varying the time frame for COOP-WONCA functional health status charts: A nested randomised controlled trial in Bristol, UK. J Epidemiol Community Health 1998;52: 59-64.
14. Bruusgaard D, Nessioy I, Rutle O, Furuseth K, Natvig B. Measuring functional status in a population survey. The Dartmouth COOP functional health assessment charts/ WONCA used in an epidemiological study. Fam Pract 1993;10:212-8.
15. Westbury RC, Rogers TB, Briggs TE, Allison DJ, Gervas J, Shigemoto H, et al. A multinational study of the factorial structure and other characteristics of the Dartmouth COOP Functional Health Assessment Charts/WONCA. Fam Pract 1997;14:478-85.
16. Detmar SB, Muller MJ, Wever LD, Schornagel JH, Aaronson NK. Patient-physician communication during out-patient palliative treatment visits: An observational study. JAMA 2001;285:1351-7.
17. Kazis LE, Anderson JJ, Meenan RF. Effect sizes for interpreting changes in health status. Med Care 1989;27: S178-89.
18. Cohen J. Statistical power analysis for the behavioural sciences. Orlando, FL: Academic Press; 1977.
19. Goldstein MS, Elliot SD, Guccione AA. The development of an instrument to measure satisfaction with physical therapy. Phys Ther 2000;80:853-63.