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Psychosocial Impact of Assistive Device Scale (PIADS)

[ Developed in 1996 ]

	Author(s)
Day Hy Jutai Jeffrey W

Purpose

Pathology:

Generic

Disease:

All

Objective:

To measure user perceptions of how assistive devices affect quality of life

Population:

Adult

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)

Mode of administration:

Telephone-administered
Self-administered
Proxy-rated

[ Self-report version and Caregiver-rated version ]

Number of items:

Existence of database:

Time recall:

None

Language(s)

Original language:

English

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)

Afrikaans	French for Canada	Japanese	Spanish for Puerto Rico
American Sign Language (ASL)	German	Polish	Swedish
Chinese for Taiwan	Hebrew	Portuguese	Xhosa
Dutch	Italian	Spanish

Last update: October 2008
Last update in collaboration with the author: May 2008