Identification of problems in functioning of people with sleep disorders in a clinical setting using the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) Checklist

Journal of Sleep Research

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 445-453

  Gradinger, Felix ^a,e   Glässel, Andrea ^a   Gugger, Matthias ^b   Cieza, Alarcos ^a   Braun, Nathalie ^c   Khatami, Ramin ^c,d   Schmitt, Wolfgang ^b   Mathis, Johannes ^b  

^a SWISS PARAPLEGIC RESEARCH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Clinic Barmelweid   (Switzerland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cross sectional study; Functioning; ICF; Sleep disorders; WHO

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BODY POSITION; BODY WEIGHT; BREATHING DISORDER; CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEM; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM SLEEP DISORDER; CLIMATE; COGNITION; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONVERSATION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRIVE; DRIVING ABILITY; EMPLOYMENT; ENERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE TOLERANCE; EXPLORATORY RESEARCH; FAMILY; FAMILY RELATION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEARING; HUMAN; HYPERSOMNIA; INSOMNIA; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF FUNCTIONING, DISABILITY AND HEALTH; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; INTIMACY; LEISURE; LIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; MOUTH; PARASOMNIA; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONALITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; RECREATION; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION; SKIN FUNCTION; SLEEP DISORDER; SLEEP PATTERN; SLEEP QUALITY; SLEEP TIME; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPINAL CORD; STRESS; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TELEVISION; TEMPERAMENT; THERMOREGULATION; THINKING; TIME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ADULT; CHECKLIST; CHRONOBIOLOGY DISORDERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISABILITY EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOCTURNAL MYOCLONUS SYNDROME; PARASOMNIAS; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROMES; SLEEP DISORDERS;

EID: 79960738929     PISSN: 09621105     EISSN: 13652869     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2869.2010.00888.x     Document Type: Article

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