OBJECTIVES To support sustainability of the welfare society enhanced work retention is needed among those with impaired work ability. Partial health-related benefits have been introduced for this target. The aim was to estimate the effects of partial sick leave on transition to disability pension applying propensity score methods. DESIGN Register-based cohort study. SETTING Sample from the ...

Evidence-based rehabilitative treatment is constrained due to limited knowledge about disability and its related factors among individuals with schizophrenia across West Africa. This study aims to investigate the pattern of disability, and the associated factors among individuals with schizophrenia. One hundred consecutively recruited consenting participants were subjected to designed questionn...

BACKGROUND Globally more than a billion people, 15% of the population, lives with disability and most of disabilities are caused by injuries. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to describe the prevalence of disability and its predictors at 1 and 3 months post-injury in Kashan City during 2014 - 2015. PATIENTS AND METHODS In this longitudinal follow-up study, 400 injured patients 15 - 65 y...

OBJECTIVE To characterise prospectively the relation between one year changes in neurologist rating of neurological exam abnormalities as measured by the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) and changes in patient perceived disability as measured by the Guy's Neurological Disability Scale (GNDS) in patients with multiple sclerosis. METHODS Two hundred and fifty patients with MS were recrui...

STUDY DESIGN This study examines the links between severity of whiplash associated disorder and costs and health outcomes. OBJECTIVE The study aims to estimate the economic costs and health-state utilities associated with disability levels and recovery trajectories after acute whiplash injury. SUMMARY OF BACKGROUND DATA Data used were from the Managing Injuries of the Neck Trial, which coll...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of the study is to compare the reliability of the Barthel activities of daily living score, which assesses disability, with the Rankin scale, which assesses handicap, and to determine their mutual agreement. METHODS Fifty patients with stroke of varying severity were identified by a community-based stroke register and interviewed by two of three research nur...

OBJECTIVE To identify the factors that could predict the functional outcome in patients with the axonal type of Guillain-Barre syndrome (GBS). METHODS Two hundred and two GBS patients admitted to our university hospital between 2003 and 2014 were reviewed retrospectively. We defined a good outcome as being "able to walk independently at 1 month after onset" and a poor outcome as being "unable...

AIMS Neuropad is a simple visual indicator test, with moderate diagnostic performance for diabetic peripheral neuropathy. As it assesses sweating, which is a measure of cholinergic small nerve fibre function, we compared its diagnostic performance against established measures of both large and, more specifically, small fibre damage in patients with diabetes. METHODS One hundred and twenty-sev...

Abstract Background About 40–70% of patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) develop cognitive impairment (CI) throughout their life. We aim to study the influence MS on changes. This is a case–control fifty who met revised 2017 Mc Donald Criteria and age- sex-matched healthy subjects. The Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) was used assess degree disability, Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoC...