השוואת שיטות

	Washington Group Short Set	ICF Coding
תחום	Disability Studies	Disability Studies
משפחה	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
שנת המקור	2011	2001
הוגה השיטה	Washington Group on Disability Statistics (Jennifer Madans, Mitchell Loeb, Barbara Altman)	World Health Organization
סוג	Standardized survey-question set for census-based disability measurement	Classification-coding pipeline for functioning and disability
מקור מכונן	Madans, J. H., Loeb, M. E., & Altman, B. M. (2011). Measuring disability and monitoring the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: the work of the Washington Group on Disability Statistics. BMC Public Health, 11(Suppl 4), S4.	World Health Organization. (2001). International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: ICF. Geneva: WHO. ISBN: 9789241545426
כינויים	WG Short Set, WG-SS Disability Questions, Washington Group Census Questions, Six-Domain Functional Difficulty Set	ICF Qualifier Coding, Functioning Profile Coding, ICF Category Assignment
קשורות	3	3
תקציר	The Washington Group Short Set on Functioning is a brief, standardized set of six survey questions designed to identify people at risk of participation restrictions because of difficulty in basic functional domains. Developed by the Washington Group on Disability Statistics under United Nations auspices, the short set asks about difficulty in seeing, hearing, walking or climbing steps, remembering or concentrating, self-care, and communicating, each answered on a common four-level scale running from no difficulty to cannot do at all. Its purpose, as set out by Madans and colleagues in 2011, is to produce internationally comparable disability statistics that can be collected even in a population census and that support monitoring of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The questions are grounded in the functioning perspective of the WHO ICF, deliberately measuring difficulty in carrying out basic actions rather than diagnoses or impairments. A simple cut-off on the difficulty scale converts the answers into a disability classification used to estimate prevalence and to disaggregate other indicators.	ICF coding is the procedure for describing a person's functioning and disability using the World Health Organization's International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF), published in 2001. Rather than recording a diagnosis, the coder selects categories from four components — body functions, body structures, activities and participation, and environmental factors — and appends numeric qualifiers that grade how much of a problem exists or, for environmental factors, whether something is a barrier or a facilitator. The result is a standardized functioning profile that operationalizes the biopsychosocial model of disability and makes information comparable across settings, conditions, and countries.