WASHINGTON – Assessments of a person’s ability to function at work provide important information for disability determinations, and many validated tests are available to assess work-related physical ...

The U.S. Social Security Administration has requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine conduct a study to (1) provide an overview of ways to collect information about ...

questionnaire In patients with schizophrenia researchers found that the Beijing Performance-based Functional Ecological Test is valid in assessment of functional capacity. Researchers have developed a ...

Screening for functional deficits in older adults Assessment of functional impairments in an aging population is one of the most daunting challenges facing primary-care clinicians. HOW TO TAKE THE ...

RESULTS: Internal consistency and test-retest reliability of the FACT-O were adequate. Overall, the scales correlated with other measures as expected; all correlations were in the hypothesized ...

Patients with MDD exhibit significantly higher triglyceride levels, which correlate with worse functional impairment scores.