ArticleJournal of occupational rehabilitation2018
Improving Assessment of Work Related Mental Health Function Using the Work Disability Functional Assessment Battery (WD-FAB).
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- Cultural adaptation of the Work Disability Functional Assessment Battery (WD-FAB) into German (Germany): hybrid application of two adaptation approaches.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2026Article
- Applying NLP methods to code functional performance in electronic health records using the international classification of functioning, disability, and health.Disability and health journal · 2025Article
- The reproducibility of structured functional assessments in a social security setting: a pre-specified explanatory analysis of the RELY-studies.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Aligning metrics with meaning: considerations for measurement selection in disability evaluation.Frontiers in rehabilitation sciences · 2025Article
- Regularized Bayesian calibration and scoring of the WD-FAB IRT model improves predictive performance over marginal maximum likelihood.PloS one · 2022Article
- Demographic and functional differences among social security disability claimants.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- exploring counselor-client agreement on clients' work capacity in established and consultative dyads.Journal of employment counseling · 2020Article
- Measuring Activity Limitations Within the National Health and Aging Trends Study (NHATS).The Gerontologist · 2020Article
- Functional Interviewing Was Associated With Improved Agreement Among Expert Psychiatrists in Estimating Claimant Work Capacity: A Secondary Data Analysis of Real-Life Work Disability Evaluations.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2020Article
- The Work Disability Functional Assessment Battery (WD-FAB).Physical medicine and rehabilitation clinics of North America · 2019Article
- Measuring Work Related Physical and Mental Health Function: Updating the Work Disability Functional Assessment Battery (WD-FAB) Using Item Response Theory.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2019Article
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Purpose To improve the mental health component of the Work Disability Functional Assessment Battery (WD-FAB), developed for the US Social Security Administration's (SSA) disability determination process. Specifically our goal was to expand the WD-FAB scales of mood & emotions, resilience, social interactions, and behavioral control to improve the depth and breadth of the current scales and expand the content coverage to include aspects of cognition & communication function. Methods Data were collected from a random, stratified sample of 1695 claimants applying for the SSA work disability benefits, and a general population sample of 2025 working age adults. 169 new items were developed to replenish the WD-FAB scales and analyzed using factor analysis and item response theory (IRT) analysis to construct unidimensional scales. We conducted computer adaptive test (CAT) simulations to examine the psychometric properties of the WD-FAB. Results Analyses supported the inclusion of four mental health subdomains: Cognition & Communication (68 items), Self-Regulation (34 items), Resilience & Sociability (29 items) and Mood & Emotions (34 items). All scales yielded acceptable psychometric properties. Conclusions IRT methods were effective in expanding the WD-FAB to assess mental health function. The WD-FAB has the potential to enhance work disability assessment both within the context of the SSA disability programs as well as other clinical and vocational rehabilitation settings.
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