Activities of Daily Living - Classification
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The role of illness representations in coping and health of patients treated for breast cancer.

30 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: The present study examined the relation of cognitive and emotional representations of illness specified by the Common Sense Model of Illness Cognition (Handbook of Psychology and Health: Social Psychological Aspects of Health. Earlbaum, ... Read more...

Bruising frequency and patterns in children with physical disabilities.

18 Jul 2009 OBJECTIVE: We obtained normative data on bruising in children with physical disability in functioning and evaluated factors associated with bruising in this population. METHODS: We studied children with physical and/or cognitive disabilities who ... Read more...

Simultaneous analysis of the behavioural phenotype, physical factors, and parenting stress in people with Cornelia de Lange syndrome.

29 Jun 2009 BACKGROUND: Studies into the phenotype of rare genetic syndromes largely rely on bivariate analysis. The aim of this study was to describe the phenotype of Cornelia de Lange syndrome (CdLS) in depth by examining a large number of variables with ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Activities of Daily Living - Classification'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• [Application of the Verena Tschudin decision model: ethical--moral decisions] 30 Aug 2009
• The role of illness representations in coping and health of patients treated for breast cancer. 30 Jul 2009
• Changes in number and characteristics of people living in state institutions, 1977-2008. 30 Jul 2009
• Bruising frequency and patterns in children with physical disabilities. 18 Jul 2009
• Simultaneous analysis of the behavioural phenotype, physical factors, and parenting stress in people with Cornelia de Lange syndrome. 29 Jun 2009
• Functional skills of individuals with fragile x syndrome: a lifespan cross-sectional analysis. 29 Jun 2009
• The Down syndrome advantage: fact or fiction? 29 Jun 2009
• Impact of additional disabilities on adaptive behavior and support profiles for people with intellectual disabilities. 29 Jun 2009
• Congress restores the Americans With Disabilities Act to its original intent. 29 Jun 2009
• Reliability of a new classification system for mobility and self-care in spinal cord injury rehabilitation: the Spinal Cord Injury-Interventions Classification System. 29 Jun 2009
• [How to plan patient discharge from the hospital] 22 Jun 2009
• [Triple arthrodesis in treatment of degenerative hindfoot deformities: clinical, radiological and pedobarographic results] 21 Jun 2009
• [Transfixation in slipped capital femoral epiphysis: long-term evidence for femoro-acetabular impingement] 21 Jun 2009
• Assessing activity limitations in patients with neuromuscular diseases: is the ACTIVLIM questionnaire linked to ICF and ICF-CY? 30 May 2009
• [Central nursing documentation supports "emotional nursing": more nursing--less bureaucracy] 30 May 2009
• Developing Core Sets for persons following amputation based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health as a way to specify functioning. 30 May 2009
• Development of Korean Academy of Medical Sciences Guideline on the skin and related system: impairment evaluation of disfigurement in skin and appearance. 29 May 2009
• Content comparisons of stroke-specific quality of life based upon the international classification of functioning, disability, and health. 19 May 2009
• Predictive factors for acute stress disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder after motor vehicle accidents. 14 May 2009
• Mental capacity assessments among general hospital inpatients referred to a specialist liaison psychiatry service for older people. 9 May 2009

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Technical information about 'Activities of Daily Living'

Definition: The performance of the basic activities of self care, such as dressing, ambulation, eating, etc., in rehabilitation.

Descriptor UI: D000203

Alternative terms: Activities of Daily Living; ADL; Activities, Daily Living; Activity, Daily Living; Daily Living Activities; Daily Living Activity; Living Activities, Daily; Living Activity, Daily; Independent Living; Living, Independent; Self Care (Rehabilitation); Care, Self (Rehabilitation); Cares, Self (Rehabilitation); Self Cares (Rehabilitation); Limitation of Activity, Chronic; Chronic Limitation of Activity;

Related Mesh Headings: Karnofsky Performance Status; Sickness Impact Profile;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.831.067; I03.050; N02.421.784.110;

Online Note: use ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING to search SELF CARE 1979-80

History Note: 68; SELF CARE (REHABILITATION) was SELF CARE see ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING 1979-80

Technical Notes: IM; DF: note short X ref