Questionnaires Used to Quantify Impact of Balance Disorders on Daily Life

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Questionnaire used to quantify balance dysfunction	Source
Activities specific Balance Confidence Scale (ABC)	Powell and Meyers, 1995; Whitney et al, 1999
Falls efficacy scale	Tinetti, Richman et al. 1990
Modified falls efficacy scale (MFES)	Hill , Schwartz and others, 1996
Medical outcomes study short form 36 (SF-36)	Enloe and Sheilds, 1997
Dizziness Handicap Inventory	Jacobson and Newman, 1990
Vestibular Activities of Daily Living	Cohen et al, 2000

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Enloe, L. J. and R. K. Shields (1997). "Evaluation of health-related quality of life in individuals with vestibular disease using disease-specific and general outcome measures." Phys Ther 77(9): 890-903.
Hill, K. D., J. A. Schwarz, et al. (1996). "Fear of falling revisited." Arch Phys Med Rehabil 77(10): 1025-9.
Jacobson, G. P. and J. H. Calder (1998). "A screening version of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI-S)." Am J Otol 19(6): 804-8.
Jacobson, G. P. and C. W. Newman (1990). "The development of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory." Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg 116(4): 424-7.
Jacobson, G. P., C. W. Newman, et al. (1991). "Balance function test correlates of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory." J Am Acad Audiol 2(4): 253-60.
Powell, L. E. and A. M. Myers (1995). "The Activities-specific Balance Confidence (ABC) Scale." J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 50A(1): M28-34.
Tinetti ME, Richman D and Powell L (1990). "Falls efficacy as a measure of fear of falling." Journal of Gerontology 45(6): 239-43.
Whitney, S. L., M. T. Hudak, et al. (1999). "The activities-specific balance confidence scale and the dizziness handicap inventory: a comparison." J Vestib Res 9(4): 253-9.