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Biopsychosocial and classification models
- Borrell-Carrio, F., Suchman, A. L. &Epstein, R. M. (2004). The biopsychosocial model 25 years later: Principles, practice and scientific inquiry. Annals of Family Medicine, 2(6), 576-528.
- Boyce, C. J. & Wood, A. M. (2011). Personality prior to disability determines adaptation: Agreeable individuals recover lost life satisfaction faster and more completely. Psychology Sciences, 22 (11), 1397-1402.
- Cieza, A., Sabariego, C., Bickenbach, J., & Chatterji, S. (2018). Rethinking disability. BMC medicine, 16(1), 1-5.
- Cerniauskaite, M., Quintas, R. U. I., Boldt, C., Raggi, A., Cieza, A., Bickenbach, J. E., & Leonardi, M. (2011). Systematic literature review on ICF from 2001 to 2009: its use, implementation and operationalisation. Disability and rehabilitation, 33(4), 281-309.
- Engel, G. (1977). The need for a new medical model: A challenge for biomedicine. Science, 196 (4286), 129-136.
- Engel, G. (1980). The clinical application of the biopsychosocial model. American Journal of Psychiatry, 137, 535-544. Pdf links are available through Google Scholar
- Hemmingsson, H., & Jonsson, H. (2005). An occupational perspective on the concept of participation in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health—some critical remarks. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 59(5), 569-576.
- Kostanjsek, N. (2011, December). Use of The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a conceptual framework and common language for disability statistics and health information systems. In BMC public health (Vol. 11, No. 4, p. S3).
- Mpofu, E., & Oakland, T. (2010) (Eds.). Rehabilitation and health assessment: Applying ICF guidelines. NY, NY: Springer
- Perenboom, R. J., & Chorus, A. M. (2003). Measuring participation according to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Disability and rehabilitation, 25(11-12), 577-587.
- Peterson, D. B., Mpofu, E., & Oakland, T. (2010). Concepts and models in disability, functioning and health. In E. Mpofu & Oakland, T. (Eds.). Rehabilitation and health assessment: Applying ICF guidelines (pp. 3-26). NY, NY: Springer Publishing Company.
- Rosenbaum, P., & Stewart, D. (2004, March). The World Health Organization International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health: a model to guide clinical thinking, practice and research in the field of cerebral palsy. In Seminars in pediatric neurology (Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 5-10). WB Saunders
- Schneidert, M., Hurst, R., Miller, J., & Üstün, B. (2003). The role of environment in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Disability and rehabilitation, 25(11-12), 588-595.
- Stucki, G., & Bickenbach, J. (2017). Functioning: the third health indicator in the health system and the key indicator for rehabilitation. European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine, 53(1), 134-138.
- Üstün, T. B., Chatterji, S., Bickenbach, J., Kostanjsek, N., & Schneider, M. (2003). The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health: a new tool for understanding disability and health. Disability and rehabilitation, 25(11-12), 565-571.
- Wade, D. T. & Halligan, P. W. (2004). Do biomedical models of illness make for good healthcare systems? British Medical Journal, 329, 1398-1401.
- Wade, D. T., & Halligan, P. W. (2017). The biopsychosocial model of illness: a model whose time has come. Clinical Rehabilitation, 31(8): 995-1004.
- World Health Organization. (2001). International classification of functioning, disability and health: ICF. Geneva: World Health Organization.
- World Health Organization: WHO (2018). International Classifications of Diseases and Related Health Problems. Retrieved from: http://www.who.int/classifications/icd/en/
- World Health Organization: WHO (2002). Towards a common language for functioning, disability, and health ICF, Geneva: World Health Organization. Retrieved from: http://www.who.int/classification/icf/en
Assessments and clinical applications
- Bickenbach, J., Cieza, A., Rauch, A., & Stucki, G. (Eds.). (2020). ICF core sets: manual for clinical practice. 2nd edition . Hogrefe Publishing.
- Cieza, A. (2019). Rehabilitation the health strategy of the 21st century, really?. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 100(11), 2212-2214.
- Cieza, A., Fayed, N., Bickenbach, J., & Prodinger, B. (2019). Refinements of the ICF Linking Rules to strengthen their potential for establishing comparability of health information. Disability and rehabilitation, 41(5), 574-583.
- Ehrmann, C., Bickenbach, J., & Stucki, G. (2017). Graphical modelling: a tool for describing and understanding the functioning of people living with a health condition. European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine, 55(1), 131-135.
- Frontera, W., Gimigliano, F., Melvin, J., Li, J., Li, L., Lains, J., & Stucki, G. (2019). ClinFIT: ISPRM's Universal Functioning Information Tool based on the WHO's ICF. The Journal of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine, 2(1), 19-21.
- Grill, E., & Stucki, G. (2011). Criteria for validating comprehensive ICF Core Sets and developing brief ICF Core Set versions. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 43(2), 87-91.
- Kellet, D., Mpofu, E., & Madden, R. (2013). Reflective action assessment with a prospective clinical problem-solving tool in the context of rehabilitation medicine: An illustrative case study. Disability & Rehabilitation, 35, 1048-1054.
- Loidl, V., Oberhauser, C., Ballert, C., Coenen, M., Cieza, A., & Sabariego, C. (2016). Which environmental factors have the highest impact on the performance of people experiencing difficulties in capacity?. International journal of environmental research and public health, 13(4), 416.
- Maritz, R., Aronsky, D., & Prodinger, B. (2017). The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) in Electronic Health Records. Applied clinical informatics, 8(03), 964-980.
- Maritz, R., Tennant, A., Fellinghauer, C., Stucki, G., & Prodinger, B. (2020). Creating a common metric based on existing activities of daily living tools to enable standardized reporting of functioning outcomes achieved during rehabilitation. Journal of Rehabilitation Medicine, 52(7), 1-9.
- Mason, C., Weber, J., Atasoy, S., Sabariego, C., & Cieza, A. (2017). Development of indicators for monitoring community-based rehabilitation. PloS one, 12(6), e0178418.
- Mpofu, E. & Mpofu, N. (2018). Assessment. In V. Taryvidas & M. Hartley (Eds.). Professional Practice of Rehabilitation Counseling (2 nd ed: pp. 201-220.). New York, NY: Springer
- Madden, R., Glozier, N., Fortune, N., Dyson, M., Gilroy, J., Bundy, A., Llewellyn, G., Salvador-Carulla, L., Lukersmith, S., Mpofu, E., & Richard Madden (2015). In search of an integrative measure of functioning. International Journal Environmental Research and Public Health 12, 5815-5832; doi:10.3390/ijerph120605815.
- Mpofu, E. et al. (2013). Person-centered assessment in rehabilitation and health. In P.J. Toriello, M. Bishop, & P.D. Rumrill (Eds.). New Directions in Rehabilitation Counseling: Creative Responses to Professional, Clinical, and Educational Challenges. Linn Creek, MO: Aspen Professional Services.
- Madden, R. Cheeseman, D., Fortune, N., Mpofu, E., Bundy, A. (2013). Fundamental questions before measuring functioning and disability. Disability & Rehabilitation, 35, 1092-1096.
- Mpofu, E., Levers, L, Mpofu, K., & Tanui, P. (2015). Family assessment in rehabilitation and health. In M. Millington (Ed.). Family rehabilitation approaches. New York, NY: Springer
- Prodinger, B., Cieza, A., Oberhauser, C., Bickenbach, J., Üstün, T. B., Chatterji, S., & Stucki, G. (2016). Toward the international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF) rehabilitation set: a minimal generic set of domains for rehabilitation as a health strategy. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 97(6), 875-884.
- Rauch, A., Cieza, A., & Stucki, G. (2008). How to apply the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) for rehabilitation management in clinical practice. European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine, 44(3), 329-342.
- Sanford, J. & Bruce, C. (2010). Measuring the Impact of the Physical Environment. In T. Oakland and E. Mpofu (Eds.), Rehabilitation and Health Assessment, 207-228. New York, NY: Springer.
- Sanford, J. A. (2010). Assessing Universal Design in the Physical Environment. In T. Oakland and E. Mpofu (Eds.), Rehabilitation and Health Assessment, 255-278. New York, NY: Springer.
- Seger, W. (2018). The rediscovery of the social side of medicine: philosophy and value of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF). Electronic physician, 10(3), 6426.
- Skempes, D., Stucki, G., & Bickenbach, J. (2015). Health-related rehabilitation and human rights: analyzing states' obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 96(1), 163-173.
- Shakespeare, T. Lezzori, L. & Groce, N. (2009). The art of medicine, disability and training of health professionals. The Lancet, 374, 1815-1816.
- Smith, R. C., Fortin, A. H., Dwamena, F. & Frankel, R. (2013). An evidence-based patient centred method makes the biopsychosocial model scientific. Patient Education and Counselling, 91, 265-270.
- Sorrell, J. (2014). Moving beyond caregiver burden. Journal of Psychosocial Nursing, 52 (3), 15-18.
- Stucki, G., Bickenbach, J., Gutenbrunner, C., & Melvin, J. (2018). Rehabilitation: the health strategy of the 21st century. Journal of rehabilitation medicine, 50(4), 309-316.
- Stucki, G., Kostanjsek, N., Ustün, B., & Cieza, A. (2008). ICF-based classification and measurement of functioning. European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine, 44(3), 315-328.
- Stucki, G., Prodinger, B., & Bickenbach, J. (2017). Four steps to follow when documenting functioning with the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine, 53(1), 144-149.
Community and Independent living
- Bodde, A.E. & Seo, D. C. (2009). A review of social and environmental barriers to physical activity for adults with intellectual disabilities. Disabilities and Health Journal, 2(2), 57-66.
- Cho, H. Y., et al., Accessible Home Environments for People with Functional Limitations: A Systemic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2016. 13(8): 826.
- Hewitt, A., Stancliffe, R. and Emerson, E. (2013). Community Living and Participation: Embracing the Complexity and Forging Forward. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 51, 423-427.
- Lakin, K. C., Larson, S. A. & Hill, S. L. (2012). Behavioral outcomes of moving from institutional to community living for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities: U.S. studies from 1977 to 2010. Research and practice for persons with severe disabilities, 37, 1-12.
- Maenner, M. J., Smith, L. E., Hong, J., Makuch, R., Greenberg, J. S. & Mailick, M. R. (2013). Evaluation of an activities of daily living scale for adolescents and adults with developmental disabilities. Disability and Health Journal, 6(1), 8-17.
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Mpofu, E., Li Q., Watts, J., Chima, N. and Igbeka, P. (2019). Community-based mental health counseling, recovery models, and multidisciplinary collaboration. In L. L Levers and Hyatt-Burkhart (Eds.). Clinical Mental Health Counseling: Practicing in Integrated Systems of Care. (pp. 119-140). New York, NY: Springer. DOI: 10.1891/9780826131089.0006
- Schur, L., Kruse, D. & Blanck, P. (2013). People with Disabilities: Sidelined or Mainstreamed? Cambridge University Press.
- Tichà, R., Hewitt, A., Nord, D., Larson, S. (2013). System and individual outcomes and their predictors in services and support for people with IDD. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. 51(5):298-315. Doi: 10.1352/1934-9556-51.5.298.
- Verdonschot, M. M., de Witte, L. P., Reichratch, E., Buntix, W. H. & Curfs, L. M. (2009). Community participation of people with an intellectual disability: a review of empirical findings. Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, 53, 303-318.
Employment participation
- Beyer, S., Brown, T., Akandi, R., & Rapley, M. (2010). A comparison of quality of life outcomes for people with intellectual disabilities in supported employment, day services and employment enterprises. Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 23(3), 290-295.
- Blanck, P., Schartz, H., Hendricks, D. J., Schartz, K. & Myhill, W. N. (2009). Empirical Study of the Americans with Disabilities Act. Assessing the Employment Provisions of the Americans with Disabilities Act, (BBI Working Paper)
- Blanck, P. & Adya, M. (Eds.). (2017). Future Directions in Employment, Occupational Rehabilitation, and Disability: Introduction to the Special Section. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 27, 479-481, doi: 10.1007/s10926-017-9741-y
- Muntaner, C. Borrell, C. Vanroelen, C, Chung, H., Benach, J., Kim, I.H. et al. (2010). Employment relations, social class and health: A review and analysis of conceptual and measurement alternatives. Social Science and Medicine, 71, 2130–2140
- Pransky, G., Fassier, J. P., Besen, E., Fassier, J., Feuerstein, M., Munir, F. & Blanck, P. (2016). Sustaining work participation across the life course. Journal of Occupational Rehabilitation, 26, 465-479.
- Sabariego, C., Coenen, M., Ito, E., Fheodoroff, K., Scaratti, C., Leonardi, M., ... & Esteban, E. (2018). Effectiveness of integration and re-integration into work strategies for persons with chronic conditions: A systematic review of European strategies. International journal of environmental research and public health, 15(3), 552.
- Sadeghi, M., Rahiminam, H., Amerizadeh, A., Masoumi, G., Heidari, R., Shahabi, J., & Roohafza, H. (2021). Prevalence of Return to Work in Cardiovascular Patients after Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. Current problems in cardiology, 100876.
- Sanford, J. A. (2013). Technologies to promote community integration and participation through community design: workplace accommodations. In T. A. Lustig and S. Olson, Fostering Independence, Participation and Healthy Aging through Technology: 29-34, Washington, DC: National Academies Press.
- Schartz, K., Schartz, H. & Blanck, P. (2002). Employment of Persons with Disabilities in Information Technology Jobs: A Literature Review for “IT Works”. Behavioral Sciences & the Law, 20, 637-57.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2008). Work matters for health. Issue Brief 4: Work and Health. Retrieved from: http://www.commissiononhealth.org/PDF/0e8ca13d-6fb8-451d-bac8-7d15343aacff/Issue%20Brief%204%20Dec%2008%20-%20Work%20and%20Health.pdf
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (2013, March). How does employment –or unemployment – affect health? Health Policy Snapshot. Retrieved from https://www.rwjf.org/en/library/research/2012/12/how-does-employment--or-unemployment--affect-health-.html
- Wehman, P. H. (2011). Employment for persons with disabilities: Where are we now and where do we need to go? Journal of Vocational Rehabilitation, 35, 145-151.
Family, Career, and Peer Support
- Adelman, R. D. et al. (2014). Caregiver burden a clinical review. JAMA, 311, 1052-1059.
- Bien-Barkowska, B., Doroszkiewicz, H., & Bien, B (2017). Silent strain of caregiving: Exploring the best predictors of distress in family carers of geriatric patients. Clinical Intervention in Aging, 12, 236-274.
- Caldwell, J. (2008). Health and Access to Health Care of Female Family Caregivers of Adults with Developmental Disabilities. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 19, 68-79.
- Catalano, D., Holloway, L. & Mpofu, E. (2018). Mental Health Interventions for Parent Carers of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder: Practice Guidelines from a Critical Interpretive Synthesis (CIS) Systematic Review. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15, 341. doi:10.3390/ijerph15020341
- Kovaleva, M., Blevins, L., Griffiths, P. C. & Hepburn, K. (2017). An Online Program for Caregivers of Persons Living With Dementia: Lessons Learned. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 0(0) 0733464817705958. doi: 10.1177/0733464817705958
- Lanque, S. et al. (2016). Concept analysis: Alzheimer caregivers. Nursing Forum, 51(1), 21-31.
- Lorig, K., Thompson-Gallagher, D., Traylor, L., Ritter, P. L., Laurent, D. D., Plant, K., Thompson, L. W. & Hahn, T. J. (2012). Building better caregivers: A pilot online support workshop for family caregivers of cognitively impaired adults. Journal of Applied Gerontology, 31, 423-437.
- Lynn, J. (2014). Strategies to ease the burden of family givers. JAMA, 311, 1021-1022.
- Piersol, C. V., et al. (2017). Effectiveness of interventions for caregivers of people with Alzheimers disease and related major neurocognitive disorders: A systematic review. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 71.
- Qadeer, A. et al. (2017). Caregiver’s burden of the patients with traumatic brain injury. Cureus, 9(8), e1590
Health Systems and Health Related Quality of Life
- Baxter, S., Johnson, M., Chambers, D., Sutton, A., Goyder, E., & Booth, A. (2018). The effects of integrated care: a systematic review of UK and international evidence. BMC health services research, 18(1), 1-13.
- Bickenbach, J., Sabariego, C., & Stucki, G. (2021). Beneficiaries of Rehabilitation. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 102(3), 543-548.
- Black, R., Dorstyn, D., Mpofu, E. & Kneebone, I., (2017). Understanding depression symptomatology in multiple sclerosis: A systematic review. Rehabilitation Psychology, 62(2), 143-164.
- Costa-Font, J., & Hernández-Quevedo, C. (2012). Measuring inequalities in health: What do we know? What do we need to know? Health Policy, 106, 195–206
- Emerson, E. (2011). Health status and health risks of the “hidden majority” of adults with intellectual disability. Intellectual and development disabilities, 49(3), 155-165.
- Etmanski, A., Collins, J. & Cammack, V. (2015). Safe and secure: Seven steps on the path to a good life for people with disabilities. Vancouver, BC: PLAN Institute.
- Krahn, G. L., & Fox, M. H. (2014). Health disparities of adults with intellectual disabilities: what do we know? What do we do? Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 27, 431-446.
- Krahn, G. L., Walker, D. K. & Correa-De-Araujo, R. (2015). Persons with disabilities as an unrecognized health disparity population. American Journal of Public Health, 2015:105(52): S198-S206.
- Le, J., Dorstyn, D. S., Mpofu, E., Prior, E. & Tully, P. J. (2018). Health-related quality of life in coronary heart disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis mapped against the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health. Quality of Life Research. doi 10.1007/s11136-018-1885-5
- Mpofu, E. (2013) Qualities of life design measures with chronic illness or disability. Disability & Rehabilitation, 35, 1055-1058
- Prodinger, B., Cieza, A., Oberhauser, C., Bickenbach, J., Üstün, T. B., Chatterji, S., & Stucki, G. (2016). Toward the international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF) rehabilitation set: a minimal generic set of domains for rehabilitation as a health strategy. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 97(6), 875-884.
- Rauch A, Cieza A, Stucki G, Melvin J. (2008). How to apply the ICF for rehabilitation management in clinical practice. Eur J Phys Rehabil Med; 44: 329-42
- Rauch, A., Negrini, S., & Cieza, A. (2019). Toward strengthening rehabilitation in health systems: methods used to develop a WHO package of rehabilitation interventions. Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation, 100(11), 2205-2211.
- Stancliffe, R. J., & Anderson, L. L. (2017). Factors associated with meeting physical activity guidelines by adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Research in Developmental Disabilities, 62, 1-14.
- Stucki, G., & Bickenbach, J. (2017). Functioning information in the learning health system. European journal of physical and rehabilitation medicine, 53(1), 139-143.
- Stucki, G., Bickenbach, J., & Frontera, W. (2019). Why Rehabilitation Should be Included in International Healthy Ageing Agendas. American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation, 98(4), 251-252.
- Stucki, G., Bickenbach, J., & Melvin, J. (2017). Strengthening rehabilitation in health systems worldwide by integrating information on functioning in national health information systems. American journal of physical medicine & rehabilitation, 96(9), 677-681.
- WHO (2016). Framework on integrated people-centered health services. 69th World Health Assembly A69/39. Provisional agenda item 16.1. Report by the Secretariat from April 2016.
- WHO (2017) Rehabilitation in Health Systems, Geneva: WHO, 2017
- WHO (2019). Health Information Systems and Rehabilitation. Geneva, WHO, 2019
Assistive devices and Technology Applications
- Agree, E. M. (2014). The potential for technology to enhance independence for those aging with a disability. Disability and health journal, 7(1), S33-S39.
- Anderson, M. & Perrin, A. (April 7, 2017). Disabled Americans are less likely to use technology. Washington, D.C.: PEW Research Center.
- Adya, M., Samant, D., Scherer, M. J., Killeen, M. & Morris, M. W. (2012). Assistive/rehabilitation technology, disability, and service delivery models. Cognitive Processing: International Quarterly of Cognitive Science, 13(1), 75-78.
- Dunn, M., Barrio, B. L. & Hsaio-Y-J. (2016). Do iPad applications help students with developmental disabilities improve literacy and employability? Canadian Journal of Action Research, 17(1), 51-75.
- Gramstad, A., Stroli, S. L. & Hamran, T. (2013). Do I need it? Do I really need it?” Elderly peoples experiences of unmet assistive technology device needs. Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology, 8, 287-293.
- Harrington, C. N., Mitzner, T. L. & Rogers, W. A. (2015). Understanding the role of technology for meeting the support needs of older adults in the USA with functional limitations. Gerontechonolgy,14(1), 21-31.
COVID-19 Impact
- Belli, S., Balbi, B., Prince, I., Cattaneo, D., Masocco, F., Zaccaria, S., ... & Spruit, M. A. (2020). Low physical functioning and impaired performance of activities of daily life in COVID-19 patients who survived hospitalisation. European Respiratory Journal, 56(4).
- Li, L. Q., Huang, T., Wang, Y. Q., Wang, Z. P., Liang, Y., Huang, T. B., ... & Wang, Y. (2020). COVID‐19 patients' clinical characteristics, discharge rate, and fatality rate of meta‐analysis. Journal of medical virology, 92(6), 577-583.
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