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Table 4 Multi-item questionnaire information

From: Methods for assessment of patient adherence to removable orthoses used after surgery or trauma to the appendicular skeleton: a systematic review

Study name

Assessor

Method of questionnaire administration

Validated tool?

Timing of assessment

Description of measure

Adherence score

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

  1. h hours, w weeks