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    Diabetic Foot Ulcer Scale (DFS)

    [ DFS patient and caregiver versions and DFS Short Form (DFS-SF)
    Distributed by Mapi Research Trust ]

    Author(s)
    Johnson & Johnson, USA
    Purpose
      Pathology:
    Skin and connective tissue diseases
    Endocrine system diseases
    Nutritional and metabolic diseases

      Disease:
    Leg ulcer
    Diabetes mellitus

    [ Type 1 – IDDM, Type 2 – NIDDM ]

      Objective:
    To assess the impact of diabetic foot ulcers and their treatment on quality of life from the patient’s perspective

      Population:
    Caregivers
    Adult

    [ Patients and caregivers ]
    Characteristics
      Type of instrument:
    Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)

      Mode of administration:
    Self-administered

    [ Self-administered for patients and self-administered for caregivers ]

      Number of items:
    DFS: 64 (58+ 6 not included in score) / DFS-SF: 29

      Existence of database:
    No

      Time recall:
    No time recall (screening version) / The past 4 weeks / During the course of this study
     
    Language(s)
      Original language:
    English for the UK

      List of existing translations:
    (the translations may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process. Please check status of translations with Mapi Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors)

    DFS patient and caregiver versions:

     Dutch*
     English for the USA*
     French for Canada*
     Italian*
     Dutch for Belgium*
     French*
     German*
     Swedish* 


    DFS-SF:

     Cantonese for Hong Kong
     
      
     


    * translations performed by the Mapi Institute
     


    Last update: March 2009
    Last update in collaboration with the author: March 2007


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