| Cross-cultural validation of the London Handicap Scale and comparison of handicap perception between Chinese and UK populations (2007) | |||||||||||||
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| Objective: to validate the London Handicap Scale on populations from diverse cultures by comparing handicap perceptions in Mainland (Sichuan) Chinese, Hong Kong Chinese and UK subjects. Method: utility ratings of 10 real life health scenarios were given by a group of healthy and disabled Sichuan Chinese subjects. The ratings were then correlated with published scale scores of HK and UK subjects on the same scenarios. Setting: a university for older persons in Sichuan and the 4th Hospital of Sichuan University. Subjects: two hundred and one Sichuan Chinese (mean age: 63.3 years) comprising of healthy (31.8%) and disabled individuals with stroke, fracture, cancer or other chronic conditions (69.2%) were recruited in the study. Results: overall ratings for health scenarios were found to be highly correlated between Sichuan Chinese and UK subjects (r = 0.85; P | |||||||||||||
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