Assessing the reliability and validity of a health-related quality of life instrument, CPADULT, in a Dutch sample of adults with severe disabilities who are non-ambulatory.

Background: A measure to provide insight regarding health-related quality of life of adults with severe motor and intellectual disabilities was lacking. For this reason, the CPADULT was developed. This measure includes domains relating to an individual's physical, mental, and social functioning.

Development and sensibility assessment of a health-related quality of life instrument for adults with severe disabilities who are non-ambulatory.

Background: Insight in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of adults with severe disabilities who are non-ambulatory is important, but a measure is lacking. The aim was to develop a HRQoL measure for this group.

Method: The developmental process consisted of the adaptation process of a proxy HRQoL measure for children with severe disabilities who are non-ambulatory and the assessment of the sensibility of the developed instrument.

Sensibility of the stump in adults with an acquired major upper extremity amputation.

Objectives: To compare the sensibility of the stump in adults with an acquired major upper extremity amputation with the sensibility of the unaffected side and with the corresponding body parts of healthy controls, as well as to relate the sensibility of the stump to daily functioning.

Design: A survey with matched controls.

Setting: A tertiary referral center.