Metrics on functioning and quality of life

Recommended Prerequisites

 There are no preconditions.

Teaching Methods

The curricular unit will comprise 32 h / semester distributed 2 h / week

Each class will comprise 2 hours, where theoretical and practical content will be taught.

Presentation of theoretical and practical cases during the classes.

Realization of proposal study for the implementing the research concepts.

Learning Outcomes

Functionality and quality of life are increasingly the main objectives of a therapeutic program or intervention. Indexes and scales of assessment are adequate tools for monitoring health indicators. It is intended that the student knows the concepts of functionality and quality of life. It is also intended to understand the characteristics of the indexes and scales of assessment, their psychometric properties and the process of cultural and linguistic validation. It is also intended to contact the use of these tools in different areas, namely neurological, musculoskeletal, chronic pain, geriatric, risk of falling, among others.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The concept of functionality and quality of life: the evolution of health concepts in the 21st century

The importance and the process of assessing function and quality of life.

Types of indexes and scales of assessment, their psychometric characteristics, in terms of function and quality of life.

Monitoring of health indicators and the concept of functional prognosis.

The role of these tools (indexes and scales) in clinical research and in the construction of evidence based medicine.

Types of metric instruments in different pathologies, namely neurological, musculoskeletal, chronic pain, geriatric, risk of falling, among others.

Head Lecturer(s)

João Paulo Neves Branco

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Resolution Problems: 50.0%
Exam: 50.0%

Bibliography

 

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EuroQoL Group. EuroQol – A new facility for the measurement of healthrelated quality of life. Health Policy. 1990;16:199-208.

 

Van Agt H, Essink-Bot ML, Krabbe P, Bonsel G. Test-retest reliability of health state Valuations collected with the EuroQol questionnaire. In: EQ-5D concepts and methods: a developmental history; 2005. p. 109–23.

 

Tsang, S., Royse, C. F., & Terkawi, A. S. (2017). Guidelines for developing, translating, and validating a questionnaire in perioperative and pain medicine. Saudi journal of anaesthesia, 11(Suppl 1), S80–S89. doi:10.4103/sja.SJA_203_17

 

Ferreira PL, Ferreira LN, Pereira LN. [Contribution for the validation of the Portuguese version of EQ-5D]. Acta Med Port. 2013;26:664–75.