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Table 1 Items and categories used in the structured ICF-oriented questionnaire

From: “What would you like to achieve?” Goal-Setting in Patients with Dementia in Geriatric Rehabilitation

Item

Content

ICF chapters and categories

ICF Codes

1. Mobility

Motor functions

Mobility; Changing and maintaining body positions

d410

d415

2. Lower extremity muscle power function

Motor functions

Neuro-musculoskeletal and movement-related functions; using the legs and feet to exert a force on an object to move it away; getting into and out of a seated position

b7303

d435

d410

3. Fine hand use

Motor functions

Mobility; Grasp small objects with fingers and hands and pick up small objects (for example coins), button clothes

d440

4. Walking

Motor functions

Mobility; walking short or long distances without walking aids

d450

d460

5. Walking around with walking aid

Motor functions

Mobility; walking short or long distances by using specific devices like walker or walking sticks

d465

6. Personal hygiene

Self-care

Self-care; Washing oneself

Caring for body parts; Toileting

d510

d520

d530

7. Dressing

Self-care

Self-care; putting on or taking off clothes and footwear

d540

8. Eating and drinking

Self-care

Self-care; Eating and Drinking without any help and without any difficulty

d550

d560

9. Household tasks

Domestic life

Domestic life; preparing simple meals and doing housework; wash dishes, cleaning cooking area and utensils;

d6300

d6340

10. Physical endurance

Motor functions

Functions of the cardiovascular, haematological, immunological and respiratory systems; functions of physical endurance, aerobic capacity, stamina and fatigability

b455

11. Pain

Sensory functions

Sensory functions and pain; sensations of generalized or localized pain in one or more body part,

b280

12. Mood/ Depressive symptoms

Psychological wellbeing

Mental functions; regulation and range of sadness, lability of emotion

b152

13. Anxiety, fear of falling

Psychological wellbeing

Mental functions; functions of appropriateness of anxiety, fear of falling

b152

14. Handling stress and psychological demands

Psychological wellbeing

General tasks and demands; Handling stress and psychological demands

d240

15. Memory and attention

Cognition

Mental functions; concentration; sustaining and shifting attention

Registering, storing and retrieving information; short- and long-term memory; remembering;

b140

b144

16. Family relations

Social relationship

Interpersonal interactions and relationships; parent-child and child-parent relationships, sibling and extended family relationships

d760

17. Informal social relationships

Social relationship

Interpersonal interactions and relationships; entering into relationships with others, such as casual relationships with people living in the same community or residence, friends, neighbours

d750

18. Knowledge about acute and chronic illnesses

Self-care

Self-care; maintaining one’s health

d5702

19. Knowledge about medication, assistive products

Self-care

Self-care; maintaining one’s health

d5702

  1. The ICF has two parts, each containing two separate components. Part 1 covers functioning and disability and includes the components Body Functions (b), Body Structures (s) and Activities and Participation (d). Part 2 covers contextual factors and includes the components Environmental Factors and Personal Factors (e). In the ICF classification, the letters b, s, d, and e, which refer to the components of the classification are followed by a numeric code that starts with the chapter number (one digit), followed by the second level (two digits), as well as third and fourth levels (one extra digit each). Digits in column 4 refer to components of the ICF followed by numeric codes