Gomez-Benito, Juana , Guilera, Georgina , Barrios, Maite , Rojo, Emilio , Pino, Oscar , Gorostiaga, Arantxa , Balluerka, Nekane , Dolores Hidalgo, Maria , Luis Padilla, Jose , BENÍTEZ BAENA, ISABEL, Selb, Melissa
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Disabil Rehabil
Article
Científica
2.054
06/11/2018
000448452500004
2-s2.0-85026518369
Purpose: Based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), this paper presents the results of the process to develop the Comprehensive and Brief Core Sets for schizophrenia that allow to comprehensively describe functioning in persons with schizophrenia. Methods: Twenty health professionals from diverse backgrounds participated in a formal and iterative decision-making process during an international consensus conference to develop these Core Sets. The conference was carried out based on evidence gathered from four preparatory studies (systematic literature review, qualitative study, expert survey, and empirical study). The first step of this decision-making and consensus process comprised of discussions and voting in working groups and plenary sessions to develop the comprehensive version. The categories of the Comprehensive ICF Core Set for schizophrenia served as the basis for the second step -a ranking and cutoff procedure to decide on the brief version. Results: Of the 184 candidate categories identified in the preparatory studies, 97 categories were included in the Comprehensive Core Set for schizophrenia. A total of 25 categories were selected to constitute the Brief Core Set. Conclusions: The formal decision-making and consensus process integrating evidence from four preparatory studies and expert opinion led to the first version of the Core Sets for schizophrenia. Comprehensive and Brief Core Sets for schizophrenia may provide a common language among different health professionals and researchers, and a basic international standard of what to measure, report, and assess the functioning of persons with schizophrenia.
International classification of functioning; disability and health; ICF core set; functioning; schizophrenia; health-status measures