Peking University Reports Findings in Medical Technology (Application of the international classification of functioning, disability, and health to disability assessment for older people in China): Health and Medicine – Medical Technology

2024 MAY 17 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Daily China News -- New research on Health and Medicine - Medical Technology is the subject of a report. According to news reporting out of Beijing, People’s Republic of China, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “In the previous research, the Disability Assessment Scale based on ICF had been constructed for LTC insurance in China. To apply this scale in further studies, it is essential to establish assessment standards for disability levels.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Peking University, “To establish standardized disability classification criteria and identify the disability statuses and levels in older people. This is a cross-sectional study, in which 1,610 older individuals in 15 long-term care institutions in China were assessed by the disability assessment scale based on ICF. Cluster analysis was used for classification of the disability levels. Mean (SD) and median (IQR) were used to describe the scores for each item and each dimension. The total scores of the disability assessment scale were classified into six disability levels. The overall disability level of the 1,610 participants was moderate-to-severe. The disability in the dimension of ‘self-care ability and activity’ was the most obvious and severe.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “The Disability Assessment Scale is capable of identifying disability statuses and levels of older people, and it can serve as a valuable tool for investigating the disabilities among old people and for conducting cross-national comparisons of disability levels.”

For more information on this research see: Application of the international classification of functioning, disability, and health to disability assessment for older people in China. Frontiers in Rehabilitation Sciences, 2024;5:1384698.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Hong Xie, School of Nursing, Peking University, Beijing, People’s Republic of China. Additional authors for this research include Yuanping Zhao, Kun Wang, Shouguo Liu, Juan Yan and Jianan Li.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2024.1384698. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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