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Table 1 Geriatric Locomotive Function Scale (GLFS) -25

From: Characteristics of disability in activity of daily living in elderly people associated with locomotive disorders

Please answer on your status over the last one month

Question items

Domain

Response options

1. Did you have any pain (including numbness) in your neck or upper limbs (shoulder, arm, or hand)?

pain

0: no pain

1: mild pain

2: moderate pain

3: considerable pain

4: severe pain

2. Did you have any pain in your back, lower back or buttocks?

pain

3. Did you have any pain (including numbness) in your lower limbs (hip, thigh, knee, calf, shin, ankle, or foot)?

pain

4. To what extent has it been painful to move your body in daily life?

pain

5. To what extent has it been difficult to get up from a bed or lie down?

mobility

0: not difficult

1: mildly difficult

2: moderately difficult

3: considerably difficult

4: extremely difficult

6. To what extent has it been difficult to stand up from a chair?

mobility

7. To what extent has it been difficult to walk inside the house?

mobility

8. To what extent has it been difficult to put on and take off shirts?

self-care

9. To what extent has it been difficult to put on and take off trousers and pants?

self-care

10. To what extent has it been difficult to use the toilet?

self-care

11. To what extent has it been difficult to wash your body in the bath?

self-care

12. To what extent has it been difficult to go up and down stairs?

mobility

13. To what extent has it been difficult to walk briskly?

mobility

14. To what extent has it been difficult to keep yourself neat?

self-care

15. How far can you keep walking without rest? (please select the closest answer)

mobility

0: more than 2-3 km

1: approximately 1 km

2: approximately 300 m

3: approximately 100 m

4: approximately 10 m

16. To what extent has it been difficult to go out to visit neighbors?

Interpersonal interactions

0: not difficult

1: mildly difficult

2: moderately difficult

3: considerably difficult

4: extremely difficult

17. To what extent has it been difficult to carry objects weighing approximately 2 kg (2 standard milk bottles or 2 PET bottles each containing 1 l)?

mobility

18. To what extent has it been difficult to go out using public transportation?

mobility

19. To what extent have simple tasks and housework (preparing meals, cleaning up, etc.) been difficult?

Domestic life

20. To what extent have load-bearing tasks and housework (cleaning the yard, carrying heavy bedding, etc.) been difficult?

Domestic life

21. To what extent has it been difficult to perform sports activity (jogging, swimming, gate ball, dancing, etc.)?

Community, social life

22. Have you been restricted from meeting your friends?

Interpersonal interactions

0: not restricted

1: slightly restricted

2: restricted about half the time

3: considerably restricted

4: gave up all activities

23. Have you been restricted from joining social activities (meeting friends, playing sport, engaging in activities and hobbies, etc.)?

Community, social life

24. Have you ever felt anxious about falls in your house?

anxiety

0: have not felt anxious

1: have occasionally felt anxious

2: have sometimes felt anxious

3: have often felt anxious

4: have constantly felt anxious

25. Have you ever felt anxious about being unable to walk in the future?

anxiety

  1. The question items in boldface are the daily activities selected in analysis of the frequency of poor response
  2. From 25 question items, 4 regarding body pain and 2 regarding anxious feeling are omitted, and remaining 19 items provide response ratio (in bold letters)
  3. (This table is reused from our paper in Quality of Life Research under permission)