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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:

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