@article{FeketePostBickenbachetal.2017, author = {Fekete, C. and Post, M. and Bickenbach, J. and Middleton, J. and Prodinger, Birgit and Selb, M. and Stucki, G.}, title = {A structured approach to capture the lived experience of spinal cord injury: Data model and questionnaire of the International Spinal Cord Injury Community Survey (InSCI)}, series = {American Journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine}, volume = {96}, journal = {American Journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine}, number = {2}, pages = {S5 -- S16}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The International Spinal Cord Injury (InSCI) community survey has been developed to collect internationally comparable data on the lived experience of persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) in all 6 WHO regions. The InSCI survey provides a crucial first step to generate evidence on functioning, health maintenance, and subjective well-being in persons with SCI globally. A major challenge in setting up the InSCI community survey was to develop a data model and questionnaire that comprehensively captures what matters to people and, at the same time, is feasible and parsimonious in terms of participant's burden. This paper outlines the components of the InSCI data model and presents the question selection to operationalize the data model along the 4 guiding principles of efficiency, feasibility, comparability, and truth and discrimination. The data model consists of 6 components operationalized with 125 questions including functioning (n = 28 body functions and structures; n = 42 activities and participation), contextual factors (n = 26 environmental; n = 19 personal factors), lesion characteristics (n = 2), and appraisal of health and well-being (n = 8). The InSCI questionnaire presents an efficient and feasible solution with satisfying comparability to other populations; however, its validity and reliability still needs to be confirmed.}, language = {en} } @article{StuckiProdingerBickenbach2017, author = {Stucki, G. and Prodinger, Birgit and Bickenbach, J.}, title = {Four steps to follow when documenting functioning with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health}, series = {European Journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine}, volume = {53}, journal = {European Journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine}, number = {1}, pages = {144 -- 149}, year = {2017}, abstract = {In this methodological note on applying the ICF in rehabilitation, we introduce suitable tools that allow us to document comprehensively and systematically the lived experience of health to guide clinical practice, the management of services, evidence-informed policy and scientific inquiry. The objective of this methodological note is to present the currently available tools with respect to four questions: 1) what ICF domains to document; 2) what perspective to take; 3) what data collection tools to apply; and 4) which approach to use for reporting. The application of these tools is illustrated using the Swiss Spinal Cord Injury (SwiSCI) Cohort Study. Existing ICF Sets provide a practical approach for identifying the domains to document. One can document from the perspective of biological health, lived health, and appraised health. For identifying suitable data collection tools, either existing tools can be linked to the ICF or available ICF-based data collection tools can be used. For reporting, an interval scale metric is suggested. The four step approach presented provides users with a logical sequence to follow when planning the documentation of functioning using the ICF as a health information reference system in practice and research.}, language = {de} } @article{ProdingerCiezaOberhauseretal.2016, author = {Prodinger, Birgit and Cieza, A. and Oberhauser, C. and Bickenbach, J. and {\"U}st{\"u}n, T.B. and Chatterji, S. and Stucki, G.}, title = {Toward the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) Rehabilitation Set: A Minimal Generic Set of Domains for Rehabilitation as a Health Strategy}, series = {Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation}, volume = {97}, journal = {Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation}, number = {6}, pages = {875 -- 884}, year = {2016}, language = {en} } @article{CiezaFayedBickenbachetal.2019, author = {Cieza, A. and Fayed, N. and Bickenbach, J. and Prodinger, Birgit}, title = {Refinements to the ICF Linking Rules to strenghten their potential for establishing comparability of health information}, series = {Disability and Rehabilitation}, volume = {41}, journal = {Disability and Rehabilitation}, number = {5}, pages = {574 -- 583}, year = {2019}, abstract = {Purpose The content of and methods for collecting health information often vary across settings and challenge the comparability of health information across time, individuals or populations. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) contains an exhaustive set of categories of information which constitutes a unified and consistent language of human functioning suitable as a reference for comparing health information. Methods and results In two earlier papers, we have proposed rules for linking existing health information to the ICF. Further refinements to these existing ICF Linking Rules are presented in this paper to enhance the transparency of the linking process. The refinements involve preparing information for linking, perspectives from which information is collected and the categorization of response options. Issues regarding the linking of information not covered or unspecified within the ICF are also revisited in this paper. Conclusion: The ICF Linking Rules are valuable for enhancing comparability of health information to ensure that information is available in a consistent manner to serve as a foundation for evidence-based decision-making across all levels of health systems. The refinements presented in this paper enhance transparency in, and ultimately reliability of the process of, linking health information to the ICF. Implications for Rehabilitation The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) constitutes a unified and consistent language of human functioning suitable as a reference for comparing health information. Comparability of information is essential to ensure that the widest range of information is available in a consistent manner for any decision-maker at all levels of the health system. The refined ICF Linking Rules presented in this article outline the method to establish comparability of health information based on the ICF.}, language = {en} } @article{DeviProdingerPennycottetal.2020, author = {Devi, N. and Prodinger, Birgit and Pennycott, A. and Sooben, R. and Bickenbach, J.}, title = {Investigating Supported Decision-Making for Persons With Mild to Moderate Intellectual Disability Using Institutional Ethnography}, series = {Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities}, volume = {17}, journal = {Journal of Policy and Practice in Intellectual Disabilities}, number = {2}, pages = {143 -- 156}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Making one's own choices is an important part of leading a fulfilling life within society. However, people with IDs often face significant obstacles when making their own decisions. Article 12 (Equal recognition before the law) of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) aims to ensure firstly that people with IDs and others with compromised capacity are nonetheless recognized as legal individuals, and secondly that assistance is provided in the form of supported decision-making in order to exercise this resulting legal capacity. It is unclear whether current national legislation in any country satisfies these requirements in practice. This study utilizes institutional ethnography to reveal how decision-making is coordinated in practice for people with mild to moderate IDs living in supported residential environments in England, and to determine whether these processes are compliant with Article 12 of the CRPD. Data collection was based on observations, semi-structured interviews, and documentary analysis, involving 29 participants including people with mild to moderate IDs. The results point to the complexity of supported decision-making and identify three main categories of decision-making: spontaneous decisions, mid-term decisions, and strategic decisions. The data also show that people with mild to moderate IDs are able to exercise their legal capacity through support decision-making in their everyday life. Immediate and informal supported decision-making exists in daily practice for people with mild to moderate IDs living in supported residential environments. Although there are structures in place for implementing supported decision-making, various barriers persist that limit the overall efficacy and consistency of the realization of supported decision-making, for example, multiple use of mental capacity assessments. Such practices move away from the supported decision-making model toward substituted decision-making.}, language = {en} } @article{HopfeProdingerBickenbachetal.2018, author = {Hopfe, M. and Prodinger, Birgit and Bickenbach, J. E. and Stucki, G.}, title = {Optimizing health systems response to patient's needs: An argument for the importance of functioning information}, series = {Disability and Rehabilitation}, volume = {40}, journal = {Disability and Rehabilitation}, number = {19}, pages = {2325 -- 2330}, year = {2018}, abstract = {Background: Current health systems are increasingly challenged to meet the needs of a growing number of patients living with chronic and often multiple health conditions. The primary outcome of care, it is argued, is not merely curing disease but also optimizing functioning over a person's life span. According to the World Health Organization, functioning can serve as foundation for a comprehensive picture of health and augment the biomedical perspective with a broader and more comprehensive picture of health as it plays out in people's lives. The crucial importance of information about patient's functioning for a well-performing health system, however, has yet to be sufficiently appreciated. Methods: This paper argues that functioning information is fundamental in all components of health systems and enhances the capacity of health systems to optimize patients' health and health-related needs. Results and conclusion: Beyond making sense of biomedical disease patterns, health systems can profit from using functioning information to improve interprofessional collaboration and achieve cross-cutting disease treatment outcomes. - Implications for rehabilitation - Functioning is a key health outcome for rehabilitation within health systems. - Information on restoring, maintaining, and optimizing human functioning can strengthen health system response to patients' health and rehabilitative needs. - Functioning information guides health systems to achieve cross-cutting health outcomes that respond to the needs of the growing number of individuals living with chronic and multiple health conditions. - Accounting for individuals functioning helps to overcome fragmentation of care and to improve interprofessional collaboration across settings}, language = {en} } @article{HodelEhrmannStuckietal.2020, author = {Hodel, J and Ehrmann, C and Stucki, G and Bickenbach, JE and Prodinger, Birgit and SwiSCI Study Group,}, title = {Examining the complexity of functioning in persons with spinal cord injury attending first rehabilitation in Switzerland using structural equation modelling}, series = {Spinal Cord}, volume = {58}, journal = {Spinal Cord}, pages = {570 -- 580}, year = {2020}, abstract = {Study design Cross-sectional. Objectives To examine the associations between activities, body structures and functions, and their relationship with aetiology, age and sex in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) at discharge from first rehabilitation. Setting Swiss SCI Cohort Study (SwiSCI). Methods The study included 390 participants with newly acquired SCI and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as conceptual frame of reference. Body structures were represented by injury level and severity; body functions by cardiovascular, pulmonary, skin, bowel and urinary functions and pain; mental functions by anxiety, depression, optimism and self-esteem; and activities by independence in performing activities of daily living (ADL). Using structural equation modelling (SEM), indirect effects of body structures and functions on independence in performing ADL through mental functions were tested for each mental function separately. For each structural model, fit was assessed using several indices and differences in aetiology, age and sex groups were explored. Results The structural model about optimism showed good fit in all indices; the models about anxiety, depression and self-esteem showed conflicting fit indices, respectively. Within all models, effects on independence in performing ADL were mainly direct. Pain showed significant (P < 0.05) indirect effects on independence in performing ADL within the depression, optimism and self-esteem models. The model about anxiety showed differences in aetiology groups. Conclusions Using an ICF-based modelling approach, this study presents an attempt towards a more comprehensive understanding of functioning in first rehabilitation of persons with SCI, which might be fundamental for rehabilitation planning.}, language = {en} }