Outcome Measures

Outcome Measurement Tools

Most outcome measurement tools cover more than one component of the World Health Organisation International Classification of Functioning (see Principle One of the new VWA’s Clinical Framework for the Delivery of Psychology Services to Injured Workers), but can be loosely classified related to their main purpose and component of measurement:

Body Functions and Body Structures

• Chronic Pain Grading Scale
• The Distress and Risk Assessment Method (DRAM)
• The Distress and Risk Assessment Method (DRAM) scoring information
• Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire (OMPQ)
• Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Questionnaire (OMPQ) scoring information
• Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) (harcourt-au.com - purchase measure)
• Beck Depression Inventory (BDI II) (harcourt-au.com - purchase measure)
• Depression, Anxiety Stress Scales (DASS) (psy.unsw.edu.au - further information + download measure)
• Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS) (nfer-nelson.co.uk - purchase measure)
• State-trait Anxiety Inventory (mindgarden.com - further info + purchase measure)
• ZUNG self rating depression scale

 

Activity and Participation

• Lower Extremity Functional Scale
• Neck Disability Index
• Knee Injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS)
• Oswestry Disability Questionnaire
• The Patient-Specific Functional Scale
• The Quebec Back Pain Disability Scale
• The Upper Extremity Functional Index
• Whiplash Disability Questionnaire
• Croft Disability Questionnaire

 

Personal and Environmental factors

• Tampa scale for Kinesiophobia
• Modified Work Apgar
• The Fear-Avoidance Beliefs Questionnaire
• West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory (WHYMPI)
• West Haven-Yale Multidimensional Pain Inventory (WHYMPI) scoring information
• Pain Catastrophising Scale (PCS)
• Pain Catastrophising Scale (PCS) scoring information
• Cognitive Coping Strategies Inventory ? Revised (CCSI-R)
• Cognitive Coping Strategies Inventory ? Revised (CCSI-R)scoring information
• Pain Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (PSEQ)
• Pain Beliefs & Perceptions Inventory
• Pain Beliefs & Perceptions Inventory scoring information
• Personality Assessment Inventory (PAI) (PAR INC - purchase measure)
• Revised NEO Personality Inventory revised (NEO PI-R) (PAR INC - purchase measure ) 

An example of how to record your outcome measures:

• Treatment Goals and Outcome Measures form 

Cultures & Languages

"Using Outcome Measures across Cultures & Languages - A Guide for Healthcare Professionals" will guide you in considering outcome measures for injured workers from another culture or who speak another language.

• download the publication

Brazilian

• Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire Brazilian Portuguese

Italian

• Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire Italian

Greek

• Oswestry Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire Greek

Turkish

• Roland Morris Disability Questionnaire Turkish

Japanese

• Oswestry Disability Questionnaire Japanese

Swiss German

• Fear Avoidance Belief Questionnaire Swiss German

© Victorian WorkCover Authority 2005. The Authority does not endorse any particular outcome measure on this list - it is intended merely to operate as a guide for healthcare professionals to assist in their management of injured workers. Healthcare professionals are expected to use their own clinical judgement to determine whether any particular measure on the list is appropriate for any individual case. Healthcare professionals are also encouraged to consider outcome measures which are not on this list. Neither the Authority, its employees, nor its consultants will be responsible for the accuracy of any information contained within this document.