Study name | Assessor | Method of questionnaire administration | Validated tool? | Timing of assessment | Description of measure | Adherence score | |||
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No. of items | Target behaviour | Response type | Combined score? | Description | |||||
Groth 1994 [10] | Patient | Unclear | Unclear | Unclear | 2 | 1. Use of splint as prescribed 2. Adherence to exercise programme | Dichotomous: Yes/No | Yes | Adherent = Yes to both |
Guillodo 2011 [23] | Patient | Telephone call | No | 60–90 days post-injury | 2 | 1. Use of brace 2. Length of use (total days) | 1. Dichotomous Yes/No 2. Continuous: no. of days | No | Reported individually |
Midgley 2011 [25] | Patient | Telephone call | No | Min 10 weeks post-injury | 2 | 1. Compliance with splint use (subjective) 2. Length of use (total weeks) | 1. Dichotomous Yes/No 2. Continuous: no. of weeks | No | Reported individually |
Rankin 2000 [26] | Patient | Postal questionnaire | Pre-tested, not validated | 12–36 months post-reconstruction | 16 | 1. Compliance with splint use during different sports 2. Compliance with home exercise programme | Continuous: visual analogue scale (100-mm line) | No | Reported individually |
Sandford 2008 [28] | Patient | Paper questionnaire | No | Clinic appt 4 w post-surgery | 4 | 1. Has splint been removed? 2. Frequency of removal 3. Duration of removal 4. Reasons for removal | 1. Dichotomous: Yes/No 2. Ordinal: never, once, 2–6 times, daily 3. Ordinal: < 1 h, > 1 h 4. Descriptive | No | Reported individually |
Silverio 2014 [27] | Patient | Paper questionnaire | Not in this population | Clinic appt 6 w post-surgery | 4 | 1. Daily hours without sling 2. Days per week without sling 3. Why was sling removed? 4. Subjective adherence | 1. Continuous 2. Continuous 3. Nominal 4. Scale of 1–10 | Yes | Adherence (%) = 100 x [(hours of sling use/ 24 × 0.5) + (% activities performed with sling on × 0.25) + (self-ranked adherence/ 10 × 0.25)] |
Whelan 2014 [22] | Patient | Unclear | No | After 4 w of immobilisation | 2 | 1. Was brace used full time? 2. Was brace used for whole (4-w) period? | Not reported | Yes | Compliant = full time use for at least 75% (3 w out of 4) of immobilisation period |