title: Using content analysis to link texts on assessment and intervention to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health - version for Children and Youth (ICF-CY).
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To explore how content analysis can be used together with linking rules to link texts on assessment and intervention to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health - version for children and youth (ICF-CY).
  
  
  METHODS
  Individual habilitation plans containing texts on assessment and intervention for children with disabilities and their families were linked to the ICF-CY using content ana-lysis. Texts were first divided into meaning units in order to extract meaningful concepts. Meaningful concepts that were difficult to link to ICF-CY codes were grouped, and coding schemes with critical attributes were developed. Meaningful concepts that could not be linked to the ICF-CY were assigned to the categories "not-definable" and "not-covered", using coding schemes with mutually exclusive categories.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The size of the meaning units selected resulted in different numbers and contents of meaningful concepts. Coding schemes with critical attributes of ICF-CY codes facilitated the linking of meaningful concepts to the most appropriate ICF-CY codes. Coding schemes with mutually exclusive categories facilitated the classification of meaningful concepts that could or could not be linked to the ICF-CY.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Content analysis techniques can be applied together with linking rules in order to link texts on assessment and intervention to the ICF-CY.
authors: Swedish Institute for Disability Research (SIDR), Orebro University and Department for Education, Culture and Communication, Mälardalen University, Örebro, Sweden. nina.klang@mdh.se
authors: Nina
authors: N
authors: Klang Ibragimova
authors: Mia
authors: M
authors: Pless
authors: Margareta
authors: M
authors: Adolfsson
authors: Mats
authors: M
authors: Granlund
authors: Eva
authors: E
authors: Björck-Åkesson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D003210:Concept Formation; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D019988:Children with Disabilities / Q000145:classification* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D004282:Documentation; D006801:Humans; D038801:International Classification of Diseases