The structure of the Early Rehabilitation Barthel Index (ERBI) should be modified: evidence from a Rasch analysis study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Early Rehabilitation Barthel Index (ERBI) comprises seven items of the Early Rehabilitation Index and ten items of the Barthel Index. The ERBI is usually used to measure functional changes in patients with severe acquired brain injury (sABI), but its measurement properties have yet to be extensively assessed.

Aim

To study the unidimensionality and internal construct validity (ICV) of the ERBI through Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA), Mokken Analysis (MA), and Rasch Analysis (RA).

Design

Multicenter prospective study.

Setting

Inpatients from five intensive rehabilitation centers.

Population

Two hundred and forty-seven subjects with sABI.

Methods

ERBI was administered on admission and discharge to study its unidimensionality through

SUBMITTER: Pellicciari L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10595071 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature