Exploring ICF components in a survey among Xhosa speakers in Eastern & Western Cape, South Africa.

Purpose: To contribute to the testing and development of the ICF model by exploring the relationship between activity limitations, participation restrictions and environmental barriers.

Method: Structured questionnaire-based interviews were carried out among a convenience sample of 950 households counting 4917 individuals in Eastern and Western Cape, South Africa. Approximately half of the households had at least one individual with disability, while the other half represented controls in the study.

The determinants of health-related quality of life in urban and rural isi-Xhosa-speaking people with disabilities.

This study aimed to establish the determinants of health-related quality of life in a rural and an urban sample of Xhosa-speaking people with disability. The sample was a convenience sample and was identified through a 'snowballing' process initiated by enumerators who were all members of Disabled People South Africa. The Xhosa version of the EQ-5D was utilized and the visual analogue scale which ranges from 0 (worst imaginable health state) to 100 (best imaginable health state) was used as the dependent measure.