Knowra Functional impairment Functional impairment Functional impairment is difficulty carrying out important activities or social roles because of a health condition. It can affect mobility, self-care, communication, cognition, or participation.
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health : A World Health Organization framework describing health, functioning, disability, and contextual factors. Its framework distinguishes body functions, activities, participation, and environmental influences.
World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule 2.0 : A questionnaire measuring disability across cognition, mobility, self-care, relationships, life activities, and participation. It offers a standardized way to measure functioning across diseases and settings.
Impairment : A problem in body structure or function, such as weakness, pain, or loss of vision. An impairment may cause activity difficulty, but the two concepts describe different levels.
Long-Term Care : Ongoing assistance with personal care or daily activities for people with chronic illness, disability, or age-related needs. Greater difficulty with daily tasks can increase the need for continuing support.
Instrumental Activities of Daily Living : Tasks needed for independent community living, including shopping, cooking, managing finances, and transportation. These complex tasks reveal limitations beyond basic self-care.
Barthel Index : A scale measuring independence in ten basic activities of daily living. It quantifies assistance needs in common self-care and mobility tasks.
Disability : A broad concept involving impairments, activity limitations, and participation restrictions in interaction with context. Functional impairment is one dimension within broader accounts of disability.
Vocational Rehabilitation : Services that help people with disabilities prepare for, obtain, or retain employment. Functional limits can require workplace adaptations, training, or supported return to work.
Participation Restriction : A difficulty becoming involved in life situations, such as education, work, family life, or community activities. Impairment can restrict involvement in social roles, not only task performance.
Katz Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living : A clinical index rating independence in bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring, continence, and feeding. It is a concise measure of basic daily functioning.
Show all 21 Linked from 41 pages Depression Related : Depressive symptoms can disrupt work, study, relationships, and self-care.
Specific phobia Related : Clinically significant interference helps distinguish a disorder from a harmless dislike.
Bipolar disorder Related : The effects on work, relationships, and daily life help establish episode severity.
Anxiety disorder Related : Distress or disruption to work, relationships, or routine helps separate disorder from ordinary worry.
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder Related : ADHD diagnosis requires symptoms to interfere with functioning, not merely to be present.
Agoraphobia Related : Assessing disrupted travel, work, and social activity helps describe agoraphobia's practical burden.
Avoidance behavior Related : Persistent avoidance can restrict work, relationships, healthcare, and everyday tasks.
Body dysmorphic disorder Related : Impairment helps distinguish a disorder from nonclinical dissatisfaction with appearance.
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