Comparing Cost and Acceptability of Two Instruments to Measure Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in Older People in Chile
| dc.coverage | DOI: 10.1159/000541754 | |
| dc.creator | Dintrans, Pablo Villalobos | |
| dc.creator | Echeverría, Antonia | |
| dc.creator | Inzunza, Constanza | |
| dc.date | 2024 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-01-05T21:07:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-01-05T21:07:04Z | |
| dc.description | <p>Introduction: Population aging and increasing long-term care needs call for designing and implementing better tools for assessing functional ability. In Chile, the Lawton and Brody (L&B) scale is used for identifying limitations with instrumental activities. This study compared the costs and acceptability of the L&B with a new instrument to measure instrumental activities of daily living (IADL): the Instrument for the Assessment of Functionality Stages (Instrumento de Evaluaci n de Estadios de Funcionalidad; IDEEF). Methods: Phone surveys were carried out to apply the L&B and the IDEEF to a sample of 200 older people (60+) participating in public programs for older people in the Metropolitan Region, Chile. Besides the items assessed by each scale, the survey captured completion times and included a short questionnaire on acceptability, data that allowed comparisons between instruments. Results: On average, the L&B takes around 4 min to be applied; the completion times for the IDEEF are 4 times longer. However, the IDEEF performs better in terms of acceptability and has neither gender bias nor dependency bias. Conclusion: Both instruments have pros and cons, but the IDEEF appears as a feasible alternative to the L&B to improve the assessment of IADL in the country.</p> | eng |
| dc.identifier | https://investigadores.uandes.cl/en/publications/793956f7-a32e-44ac-b3ca-8060a56988dd | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repositorio.uandes.cl/handle/uandes/62730 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess | |
| dc.source | vol.70 (2024) date: 2024-12-01 nr.12 p.1305-1313 | |
| dc.subject | Caregiver | |
| dc.subject | Daily life | |
| dc.subject | Healthy aging | |
| dc.subject | Older people | |
| dc.subject | Prevention | |
| dc.title | Comparing Cost and Acceptability of Two Instruments to Measure Instrumental Activities of Daily Living in Older People in Chile | eng |
| dc.type | Article | eng |
| dc.type | Artículo | spa |