Outcome
Type |
Measure |
Description |
Time frame |
Safety issue |
Primary |
Short-term changes in Modified Barthel Index (MBI) |
The Modified Barthel Index (MBI) evaluates patient's autonomy to perform ADLs (ie, chair/bed transfer, ambulation, stair climbing, toilet transfer, bowel control, bladder control, bathing, dressing, personal hygiene, feeding). Total scores range from 0 to 100. Higher scores indicate higher patient's autonomy. |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Short-term changes in Functional Independence Measure (FIM) |
The Functional Independent Measure (FIM) evaluates patient's disability level according to motor and cognitive subscores. Total scores range from 18 (complete dependence) to 126 (complete independence). Two subscores can be calculated: FIM motor (range 13-91) and FIM cognitive (range 5-35). |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Short-term changes in Timed Up & Go Test (TUG) |
The Timed Up & Go Test measures patient's risk of falling, static and dynamic balance by estimating the time patient takes to stand up from an armchair, walk forward for 3 meters, turn, walk back to the chair and sit down. The longer the time this takes, the higher the risk of falling. |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Short-term changes in Morse Fall Scale (MFS) |
The Morse Falls Scale (MFS) evaluates patient's risk of falls. Total scores ranges from 0 to 125 with higher scores reflecting a greater risk of falling. |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Short-term changes in Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) |
The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) test evaluates patient's global cognition (ie, visuospatial abilities, executive functions, attention, concentration, short-term and delayed verbal memory, working memory, language, orientation to time and space). Total scores range from 0 to 30. Higher scores indicate better cognitive outcome. |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Short-term changes in Symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT, oral version) |
The symbol Digit Modalities Test (SDMT) evaluates speeded information processing, perceptual and motor speed, and visual scanning. Higher scores indicate better cognitive outcome. |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Short-term changes in Trail Making Test (TMT) |
The Trail Making Test (TMT) measures psychomotor speed and visual search attention (ie, visual scanning, graphomotor speed, and visuomotor processing speed), and executive functions (ie, working memory, inhibition control). TMT scores represent the time spent to complete the task and are provided in seconds. The higher the scores, the worse is the performance. |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Short-term changes in Stroop Colour Word Test |
The Stroop Colour Word Test evaluates selective attention, cognitive flexibility and inhibition, and sensitivity to interference. Final score is obtained by computing the time interference effect (based on execution time) and the error interference effect (based on number of errors). Lower scores indicate better cognitive outcome. |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Short-term changes in Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) |
The Frontal Assessment Battery (FAB) evaluates executive functions (ie, conceptualization, verbal fluency, motor programming and executive control of action, self-regulation, resistance to interference, inhibitor control, environmental autonomy). Total scores range from 0 to 18. Higher scores indicate better cognitive outcome. |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Short-term changes in Phonemic Verbal Fluency Test |
The Phonemic Verbal Fluency Test evaluate phonemic fluency by asking the patient to generate as many words as possible beginning with a specific letter. Higher scores indicate better cognitive outcome. |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Short-term changes in EuroQoL-VAS (EQ-VAS) |
The EuroQoL-VAS (EQ-VAS) evaluates self-rated health on a vertical visual analogue scale (0: the worst health you can imagine; 100: the best health you can imagine). Higher scores indicate better health-related quality of life. |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Short-term changes in Short Form Health Survey-12 (SF-12) |
The Short Form Survey-12 (SF-12) evaluates perceived physical health and mental health. Two subscores are generated, namely the physical component summary (PCS) and the mental component summary (MCS). Scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating better physical and mental health functioning. |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Short-term changes in Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) |
The Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) evaluates anxiety symptoms severity in the last 2 weeks. Total scores range from 0 to 21. Higher scores indicate more severe anxiety. |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Short-term changes in Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) |
The Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) evaluates depression symptoms severity in the last 2 weeks. Total scores range from 0 to 21. Higher scores indicate more severe depression. |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Short-term changes in The Satisfaction-Profile (SAT-P) |
The Satisfaction-Profile (SAT-P) evaluates patient's satisfaction with three different domains associated with HRQoL (ie, mood, resistance to physical fatigue, and mental efficiency) evaluated on a 10-cm horizontal visual analogue scale ranging from "extremely dissatisfied" to "extremely satisfied" (in the last month). Higher rates indicate higher patient's satisfaction. |
From baseline (T0) to 4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Client-Centred Rehabilitation Questionnaire (CCRQ) |
The Client-Centred Rehabilitation Questionnaire (CCRQ) evaluates patient's subjective experience of care in rehabilitation settings (ie, patient participation in decision making and goal setting, patient-centred education, evaluation of outcomes from the patient's perspective, family involvement, emotional support, co-ordination/continuity, physical comfort). Total scores range from 33 to 165. Higher scores indicate better rehabilitation experience. |
4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
The Experience in Technology-based Rehabilitation Schedule (ExTR) |
The Experience in Technology-based Rehabilitation Schedule (ExTR) is an ad-hoc questionnaire measuring patients' experience of use of the devices. Specifically, technology learnability, acceptability, usefulness, adaptability, adverse effects, engagement, enjoyment, safety, and perceived effectiveness. Total scores range from 0 to 60. Higher scores indicate better patient's experience of use of the devices. |
4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Psychosocial Impact of Assistive Device Scale (PIADS) |
The Psychosocial Impact of Assistive Device Scale (PIADS) evaluates the psychosocial impact of the technological devices. Each item is scored on a 7-point Likert scale. The score is meant to be either positive (+1, +2, +3 scores) or negative (-1, -2, -3 scores), with a central tendency marked as zero that indicates no perceived change after using the device. Higher scores reflect the technological device's stronger psychosocial impact |
4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
System Usability Scale (SUS) |
The System Usability Scale (SUS) evaluates perceived device usability (ie, devices ease-of-use and learnability). Total scores range from 0 to 100. Higher scores indicate higher usability. |
4 weeks of rehabilitation (T1) |
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Primary |
Basic Activities of Daily Living (BADL) |
The Basic Activities of Daily Living (BADL) evaluates patient's level of independence in the basic activities in relation to the daily environment (ie, bathing, dressing, toilet, continence, transferring, feeding). Total scores range from 0 to 6. Higher scores indicate higher patient's autonomy. |
6-month telephone follow-up (T2) |
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Primary |
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) |
The Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) evaluates the patient's level of independence in performing more complex and instrumental activities (ie, using the telephone, making purchases, cooking, housekeeping, doing laundry, handling money, using means of transport, responsibility for his/her own medications). Total scores range from 0 to 8. Higher scores indicate higher patient's autonomy. |
6-month telephone follow-up (T2) |
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Primary |
The telephone-based version of the MoCA (T-MoCA) |
The telephone-based version of the MoCA (T-MoCA) evaluates patient's global cognition (ie, attention, short-term and delayed verbal memory, language, and orientation to time and space). Total scores range from 0 to 15. Higher scores indicate better cognitive outcome. |
6-month telephone follow-up (T2) |
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Primary |
Long-term changes in EuroQoL-VAS (EQ-VAS) |
The EuroQoL-VAS (EQ-VAS) evaluates self-rated health on a vertical visual analogue scale (0: the worst health you can imagine; 100: the best health you can imagine). Higher scores indicate better health-related quality of life. |
6-month telephone follow-up (T2) |
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Primary |
Long-term changes in Short Form Health Survey-12 (SF-12) |
The Short Form Survey-12 (SF-12) evaluates perceived physical health and mental health. Two subscores are generated, namely the physical component summary (PCS) and the mental component summary (MCS). Scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating better physical and mental health functioning. |
6-month telephone follow-up (T2) |
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Primary |
Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) |
The Patient Health Questionnaire-4 (PHQ-4) evaluates patient's anxiety and depression symptoms severity in the last 2 weeks. Total scores range from 0 to 12. Higher scores indicate more severe anxiety and depression symptomatology. |
6-month telephone follow-up (T2) |
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