[Structured review of activities of daily living measures in older people].
OBJECTIVE
the present article evaluates the evidence relating to the conceptual adaptation, applicability and psychometric properties of activities of daily living measures in Spanish elderly people.


METHODS
to obtain original documents, electronic searches were carried out in Spanish (IME and ISOC) and international databases (MEDLINE, PsycInfo, CINAHL and EMBASE). Manual searches and reference searches were also conducted.


RESULTS
34 articles relating to 4 instruments met the inclusion criteria: the Barthel Index, the Katz Index, the Red Cross Scale of Physical Disability and the Subscale of Personal Care Activities from the OARS. Overall, the results show a large number of versions for each instrument with weak transcultural adaptation processes and without standards for their administration or interpretation. The most frequently evaluated reliability measure was interrater reproducibility. The evidence on predictive validity is extensive, but the evidence on concurrent validity and responsiveness is almost nil.


CONCLUSIONS
one version of the Barthel index and another one of the Katz index are the two versions about which the largest quantity of information has been obtained.
Cabañero-Martínez
M José
MJ
Departamento de Enfermería. Universidad de Alicante. Campus de San Vicente del Raspeig. Alicante. España. Mariajose.cabanero@ua.es
Cabrero-García
Julio
J
Richart-Martínez
Miguel
M
Muñoz-Mendoza
Carmen Luz
CL
D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D000368:Aged; D015577:Geriatric Assessment / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011594:Psychometrics
Revisión estructurada de las medidas de actividades de la vida diaria en personas mayores.