To Advance the New Disability Evaluation System in Taiwan

Motor Dysfunction Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02614677
• Other study ID #: CCH-140713
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: November 8, 2015
• Last updated: November 22, 2015
• Start date: August 2014
• Est. completion date: December 2014

Study information

• Verified date: November 2015
• Source: Changhua Christian Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Taiwan: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

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.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 250
• Est. completion date: December 2014
• Est. primary completion date: December 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 6 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• comply with a standard of the disability evaluation

Exclusion Criteria:

Study Design

Observational Model: Case-Only, Time Perspective: Prospective

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Motor Dysfunction

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Taiwan	Changhua Christian Hospital	Taiwan	Changhua

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Changhua Christian Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Assessment of Quality of life by disability evaluate system		One day when patients came first	Yes
Primary	Pain intensity on the Numerical Rating Scale		One day when patients came first	Yes