ADLtired: Physical Activities of Daily Living

In jeppebundsgaard/RDigram: Analysis of Items from Tests and Surveys

Physical Activities of Daily Living

Description

Measure of functional ability of healthy elderly (Avlund et.al., 1993)

Usage

data(ADLtired)

Format

A data frame with 734 rows and 97 variables of which 19 are used. The data was collected from 734 70-year old in the County of Copenhagen, Denmark. The PADL scale consisted of a total of 16 items covering three different domains.

Mobility function

A:

Are you able to walk indoors?

B:

Are you able to walk out of doors in nice weather?

C:

Are you able to walk out of doors in nice weather?

D:

Are you able to manage stairs?

E:

Are you able to get outdoors?

F:

Are you able to get up from a chair or bed?

Lower limb function

G:

Are you able to wash thelower part of the body?

H:

Are you able to cut your toenails?

I:

Are you able to go to the toilet yourself?

J:

Are you able to dress the lower part of the body?

K:

Are you able to take shoes/stockings on/off?

Upper limb function

L:

Are you able to wash the upper part of the body?

M:

Are you able to cut your fingernails?

N:

Are you able to comb your hair?

O:

Are you able to wash your hair?

P:

Are You able to dress the upper part of the body?

Value

ADLtired is an object of class digram.object.

Source

The ADLtired data were obtained from Avlund, K., Schultz-Larsen, K., Kreiner, S. (1993) Construct validation and the Rasch model: Functional ability of healthy elderly people. Scand. J. Soc. Med., 21: 233-245.

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