To Advance the New Disability Evaluation System in Taiwan

Before 2007, the disability evaluation was based on the medical model in Taiwan. According to the People with Disabilities Rights Protection Act announced on 11 July 2007, the assessment of a person's eligibility for disability benefits has to be determined as suffering one of eight malfunction categories based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) framework. People with disabilities want to issue a disability identification and other welfare & services need processes of evaluation & assessment based on the ICF framework for the evaluation report and result of living need by the committee composed of professionals from medicine, social work, special education and employment counseling and evaluation.

In this year, investigators planed the project with the Taiwan Society of ICF to develop the evaluation form. The experts from various disciplines of the ICF Office convened internal integration meetings to reach a consensus for developed the ICF evaluation form, add the code of pain and sleep and the items from Short-Form 12 for quality of life to the questionnaire. The results were used to analysis other relevant factors affecting the disability evaluation. And then add the core set from World Health Organization to both physical and mental disorders linked coding group, compared the new disability evaluation system and evaluate the living need of people with disability to provide suggestion for core set.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Motor Dysfunction

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 250

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Taiwan
  • Changhua
    • Taiwan, Changhua, Taiwan, 500
      • Changhua Christian Hospital

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 6 years to 65 years (Child, Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• Sampling Method: Probability Sample

Study Population

People with disabilities want to issue a disability identification

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• comply with a standard of the disability evaluation

Exclusion Criteria:

• no

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Time Frame
Assessment of Quality of life by disability evaluate system	One day when patients came first
Pain intensity on the Numerical Rating Scale	One day when patients came first

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Changhua Christian Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: August 1, 2014
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 1, 2014
• Study Completion (Actual): December 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: November 8, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 22, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): November 25, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): November 25, 2015
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 22, 2015
• Last Verified: November 1, 2015

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: ICF model; SF-12; Disability Evaluation System
• Other Study ID Numbers: CCH-140713