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Table 2 Summary of assessment instruments for post-intensive care syndrome

From: Instruments to assess post-intensive care syndrome assessment: a scoping review and modified Delphi method study

Domain

Assessment instruments

Items

Score rage

Reliability

Validity

MICD

Features

Physical

6-min walk test

1

–

0.72–0.99 [19]a

0.59 [20]

10% [21]

The value depends on age, sex, body weight, and height

MRC (Medical Research Council) score

12

0–60

0.83–0.99 [22]

0.64 [23]

–

Muscle strength by manual muscle strength at 12 points

Grip Strength

1

–

0.87–0.92 [24]

0.76 [25]

5.7–12.5 [24]

Muscle strength by a grip dynamometer

Cognitive

Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA)

8

0–30

0.92 [26]

0.87 [26]

2 [27]

Visuospatial/executive, naming, memory, attention, language, abstraction, delayed recall, orientation

Mini-Mental State Examination ( MMSE)

11

0–30

0.56–0.93 [28]

0.43–0.99 [29]

1–3 [30]b

Registration, attention, calculation, recall, language, ability to follow simple commands, orientation

Short Memory Questionnaire ( SMQ)

14

4–46

–

–

–

Short-term memory, remote memory, cognition, orientation, calculation

Mental

Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS)

14

0–21

0.86–0.90 [31]c

0.88–0.93 [32]

1.5 [33]c

Anxiety/Depression

Impact of Event Scale-Revised (IES-R)

22

0–4 (average)

0.86 [34]

–

4.0 [35]

PTSD

Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9)

9

0–27

0.84–0.89 [36]

0.73 [36]

5 [37]

Depression

ADL

Barthel Index

10

0–100

0.89–0.97 [38]

0.57–0.88 [39]

1.85 [40]d

Feeding, bathing, grooming, dressing, bowels, bladder, toilet, transfer, mobility, stairs

Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL)

8

0–8

0.92 [41]

0.26–0.84 [41]

–

Telephone, shopping, preparing food, housekeeping, laundry, transportation, medication, finance

Functional Independence Measure (FIM)

13

13–91

0.83 [42]

–0.907 [42]

44 [43]

Self-care, toilet, transfer, locomotion, communication, social

QOL

Short Form-36 ( SF-36)

36

0–100

0.63–0.81 [44]

0.24–0.61 [45]e

2–6 [46]

Usage fee required, physical, pain, general health, vitality, social, emotional, mental

EQ-5D-5L, 5D-3L, VAS

5

0–1

0.52–0.93 [47]

0.38–0.75 [48]

0.06–0.08 [49]

Mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, anxiety/depression

SF-12

12

0–100

0.77–0.89 [50]

0.43–0.93 [50]

–

Usage fee required, physical, pain, general health, vitality, social, emotional, mental

Sleep

Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI)

9

0–21

0.86 [51]f

0.80 [52]g

4.4 [53]h

Sleep quality, latency, duration, efficiency, disturbance, medication, daytime sleep dysfunction

Pain

Brief Pain Inventory

9, 32

1–10

0.80 [54]

–

–

General, mood, walking, work, social, sleep, enjoyment

Family

SF-36

36

0–100

–

–

–

QOL

HADS

14

0–14

–

–

–

Anxiety/depression

IES-R

22

0–4 (average)

–

–

–

PTSD

  1. Reliability was shown with intraclass and interclass correlation coefficients, and validity as a correlation with the standard evaluation. Blanks indicate insufficient information for the data. MICD: minimally important clinical difference, EQ-5D-5L, 5D-3L, VAS: EuroQol-5Dimension-5Level, 5Dimension-3Level, Visual Analog Scale, PTSD: post-traumatic stress disorder, QOL: quality of life
  2. aStudy related to chronic respiratory disease, b study related to Alzheimer’s disease, c study related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, d study related to stroke, e study related to brain tumor, f study related to temporomandibular disorder, g study related to healthy workers, h study related to rotator cuff tear repair