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      Application of the ICF based Norwegian function assessment scale to employees in Germany

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          Abstract

          Background

          At the interface of the occupational setting and rehabilitation, normative values for functional ability are desirable and worthwhile. The Norwegian Function Assessment Scale (NFAS) is a 39 item self-report instrument based on the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). As the questionnaire was not used in a working population, we aimed to obtain functional levels of employees in Germany as measured through the NFAS.

          Methods

          The NFAS was included in the Study on Mental Health at Work (S-MGA) 2011/12, a representative German survey of employees aged 31 to 60 years. For descriptive analyses, 95% confidence intervals were applied through bootstrap estimation to the skewed data of the NFAS (range from 1 = ‘no difficulty’ to 5 = ‘could not do it’). The data were analysed by age decades, professional qualification, and by disabilities, congenital diseases and accidents, stratified by sex. Linear regression analyses were conducted to estimate adjusted effects of age, professional qualification, and health limitations.

          Results

          The NFAS total score was 1.17 (95% CI = 1.15–1.17). Thirty-five percent of the employees’ (1378 out of 3937 participants) reported the best possible functional ability (NFAS total score of 1.00). Managing and walking/standing were the NFAS’ most affected domains with a score of 1.26 (95% CI = 1.23–1.27), respectively. The regression analysis confirmed more functional difficulties for elder employees, females, employees with low professional qualification, and for employees suffering from disability and accidents.

          Conclusions

          The study presents normative values of functional ability for the workforce. The results are useful for score interpretation in rehabilitation and return-to-work processes.

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          The online version of this article (10.1186/s12995-017-0183-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

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          International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. ICF

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            Systematic literature review on ICF from 2001 to 2009: its use, implementation and operationalisation.

            To present a systematic literature review on the state of the art of the utilisation of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) since its release in 2001. The search was conducted through EMBASE, MEDLINE and PsychInfo covering the period between 2001 and December 2009. Papers were included if ICF was mentioned in title or abstract. Papers focussing on the ICF-CY and clinical research on children and youth only were excluded. Papers were assigned to six different groups covering the wide scenario of ICF application. A total of 672 papers, coming from 34 countries and 211 different journals, were included in the analysis. The majority of publications (30.8%) were conceptual papers or papers reporting clinical and rehabilitation studies (25.9%). One-third of the papers were published in 2008 and 2009. The ICF contributed to the development of research on functioning and on disability in clinical, rehabilitation as well as in several other contexts, such as disability eligibility and employment. Diffusion of ICF research and use in a great variety of fields and scientific journals is a proof that a cultural change and a new conceptualisation of functioning and disability is happening.
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              Development of ICF core set for disability evaluation in social security.

              The purpose of this paper is to report on the development of an ICF core set for functional assessment in disability claims in European social security systems. A formal decision-making process was applied. First, national meetings suggested categories to be included in the core set. Thereafter, the members of EUMASS working group for ICF selected a core set based on these suggestions, in a formal voting procedure. From 191 different suggestions for ICF categories given by the national meetings, 20 were selected for the core set. Five were from body functions and 15 from activities and participation. No category from environmental factors was included. The EUMASS working group successfully reached consensus on a core set for functional assessments in disability benefit claims. The core set is generic, and should be used by medical doctors. It is intended for evaluation of rights to long term benefits. For the assessment in short term sickness absence, return to work, and vocational rehabilitation, other core sets need to be developed. The usefulness of the ICF qualifiers for the level of functioning in disability assessment has yet to be established.
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                Contributors
                +49 (0)30-51548-4325 , jankowiak.sylvia@baua.bund.de
                rose.uwe@baua.bund.de
                kersten.norbert@baua.bund.de
                Journal
                J Occup Med Toxicol
                J Occup Med Toxicol
                Journal of Occupational Medicine and Toxicology (London, England)
                BioMed Central (London )
                1745-6673
                11 January 2018
                11 January 2018
                2018
                : 13
                : 3
                Affiliations
                Division Work and Health, Federal Institute for Safety and Health (BAuA), Noeldnerstr. 40/42, D-10317 Berlin, Germany
                Author information
                http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4152-310X
                Article
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                10.1186/s12995-017-0183-4
                5765624
                29344078
                ac43f2d2-6ca7-4448-874f-e1f7f16ec4cb
                © The Author(s). 2018

                Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver ( http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.

                History
                : 7 April 2017
                : 22 December 2017
                Funding
                Funded by: The project F2387 was funded by the German Federal Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (BAuA).
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                Occupational & Environmental medicine
                occupational health,employee health,international classification of functioning, disability and health,surveys and questionnaires

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