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Authors/developers:
Poonnoose PM, Padankatti S, Macaden AS, Srivastava A; Christian Medical College, Vellore, India.
Instructions and questionnaire
Scoring sheet
The Functional Independence Score in Hemophilia (FISH) was developed as a performance-based assessment tool to objectively measure an individual’s functional ability. It is intended to measure what the person with disability actually does, not what he ought to be able to do, or might be able to do if circumstances were different, or thinks he can do. It can also be used to evaluate change in functional independence over time, or after a therapeutic intervention.
The FISH is relatively safe to perform. It is meant to complement other scores that measure body structure and function, such as clinical joint evaluation scores and radiological scores. Its major advantage is that it can be used with persons of different linguistic abilities, as it is an objective, performance-based instrument.
The FISH incorporates items that are perceived as important by persons with hemophilia. Patients with hemophilia, their relatives, and therapists were asked to list activities of daily living that were affected by the condition. Activities that were considered unsafe to perform were excluded from the assessment. Other activities such as education, employment, and participation in social events that could not be assessed objectively in the clinic were also excluded.
The current version of FISH includes the assessment of eight activities: eating, grooming, dressing, chair transfer, squatting, walking, step climbing, and running. Each activity is graded according to the amount of assistance required to perform it. The level of independence for each activity is clearly defined to reduce inter-observer variance.
Contact person(s):
PM Poonnoose: [email protected], [email protected]
S Padankatti: [email protected]
AS Macaden: [email protected]
A Srivastava: [email protected]
Date of this review: February 22, 2011
Overall utility:
The FISH is the first performance-based score for assessment of musculoskeletal function in people with hemophilia. It was developed and validated in a group of patients who have significant arthropathy. It would therefore be useful in adolescents and adult patients who have not had access to prophylaxis.
It is recommended that the FISH be used in conjunction with other self-reported tools like the Haemophilia Activities List (HAL), if contextually relevant and useful. It is known from the literature that both types of instruments measure different constructs of physical functioning and the two types of scores complement each other.
Limitations:
The FISH was originally designed to compare the patient’s basic functional ability with that of normal healthy individuals. The current version therefore has a ceiling effect when applied to those with minimal musculoskeletal changes.
It was not designed to assess challenging activities in individuals with relatively “normal functional ability” for activities of daily living. A new version that will incorporate these challenges is being developed to assess patients with otherwise near-normal musculoskeletal function to improve its utility in the assessment of such patients.
Psychometric properties:
The psychometric properties of FISH were studied in a population of 63 persons with hemophilia from India, aged between 7 and 40.
Languages studied:
The tool does not need to be translated for the patient as it is an objective, performance-based assessment tool. It is currently available in English for the therapist. An Italian version is under development.
Groups tested with this measure:
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