Generic Instruments

Generic Instruments

Pediatric Quality of Life InventoryTM (PedsQLTM) 

The PedsQLTM is a 23-item generic measure of health related quality of life (HRQOL) designed for the pediatric population and has established reliability, validity and feasibility. The PedsQLTM has four subscales including physical functioning (8 items), emotional functioning (5 items), social functioning (5 items), and school functioning (5 items), as well as two summary scores (psychosocial health summary and physical health summary) and one total score. Each question is scored on a 5-point response scale, and total scores range from 0-100, with higher scores indicating better HRQOL. The PedsQLTM is generated automatically for those patients between the ages of 12-18.

Short Form 12 (SF-12®) 

The SF-12® is a well-validated measure of general health status consisting of twelve items measuring eight concepts of both physical and mental health. The SF-12®, version 2, contains 12 items from the SF-36® Health Survey. It includes one or two items that measure each of the eight domains of health included in the SF-36®: physical functioning, role limitations due to physical health, bodily pain, general health perceptions, vitality, social functioning, role limitations due to emotional problems, and mental health. The SF-12® and SF-36® have been used in a variety of different patient populations, including the cognitively impaired, those with traumatic brain injury, patients with low back pain, and sufferers of achilles injuries. The SF-12 is generated automatically for those patients over the age of 18. It can also be added manually on the Injury Demographic form.

Patient Health Questionaire 9 (PHQ-9)

The PHQ-9 is a validated 9-question mental health screening. It was derived from the longer 67-item patient health questionnaire to only 9 questions focusing on a patient's mental health. 

General Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7)

A 7-item anxiety scale using a response set similar to the PHQ-9 was initially developed to diagnose generalized anxiety disorder (hence its name, the GAD-7) and validated in 2740 primary care patients. Though originally developed to diagnose generalized anxiety disorder, the GAD-7 also proved to have good sensitivity and specificity as a screener for panic, social anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder. The GAD-7 consists of Seven items, each is scored 0 to 3, providing a 0 to 21 severity score. 

(direct quotes from the Instructions for Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ) and GAD-7 Measures manual)

Athlete Fear Avoidance Questionaire (AFAQ)

The fear-avoidance questionnaire is a 10-item questionnaire in which patients rate their agreement with the statements from one to five. One being not at all, three being to a moderate degree, and five being completely agree.

Tampa Scale of Kinesiophobia (TSK17)

In its original form, the TSK is a 17 item assessment checklist. [1] It uses a 4-point Likert scale (Strongly Disagree-Disagree-Agree-Strongly Agree) with statements that have been later linked to the model of fear-avoidance, fear of work-related activities, fear of movement, and fear of re-injury. (Physiopedia)