Disability and rehabilitation
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WHODAS 2.0 is a unified scale to measuring disability across diseases, countries, and cultures. The objective was to explore the available evidence on the psychometric properties of 12-item self-administered WHODAS 2.0 among a general population and people with non-acute physical causes of disability. ⋯ It seems, that the 12-item self-administered WHODAS 2.0 is internally consistent and a reliable scale demonstrating overall good correlation with other measures of disability. However, it appears that it is a multidimensional scale and its total score may represent different combinations of several contributing factors. Thus, the 12-item WHODAS 2.0 can be more reliable when creating a person's functional profile formed by the 12 individual item scores instead of a single total sum.IMPLICATIONS FOR REHABILITATIONThe 12-item self-administered WHODAS 2.0 is internally consistent and a reliable scale demonstrating overall good correlation with other measures of disability.It appears that it is a multidimensional scale and its total score may represent different combinations of several contributing factors.The 12-item WHODAS 2.0 can be more reliable when creating a person's functional profile formed by the 12 individual item scores instead of a single total sum.