PMID: 11330763May 2, 2001Paper

Cross-cultural validation of the London Handicap Scale in Hong Kong Chinese

Clinical Rehabilitation
R LoS Ebrahim

Abstract

To investigate the cross-cultural validity of London Handicap Scale in Hong Kong Chinese. Ratings of the utility of 10 hypothetical health scenarios were given by groups of HK Chinese subjects. Measured scores were compared with calculated scores from published scale weights of London Handicap Scale, which were based on utility ratings made by UK subjects. A rehabilitation hospital in Hong Kong. A total of 164 HK Chinese, comprising doctors, medical students, nonmedical hospital staff, geriatric day hospital stroke and nonstroke patients, community day-care centre elderly, old age hostel elderly, young disabled inpatients and young community-dwelling disabled citizens. There was a close correlation between the mean scores of HK subjects and the calculated scores derived from the published UK scale weights, apart from one scenario (Pearson's correlation coefficient r = 0.87 p = 0.001). The correlations were high for all subgroups, between which there was good consensus. Measured utilities were significantly different between subgroups for only one scenario. For this scenario of moderate to severe handicap in mobility, physical dependence, occupation and social integration, but with excellent orientation and economic self suffici...Continue Reading

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