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A 25-item questionnaire used to measure the degrees to which health conditions interfere with specific components of job performance and the productivity impact of these work limitations.
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A 25-item questionnaire used to measure the degrees to which health conditions interfere with specific components of job performance and the productivity impact of these work limitations.
25
5-10 minutes
Adult
18 - 64
yearsEliza Tilson, College of William & Mary ’21
Rheumatoid Arthritis: (Walker et al. 2005, n = 836; mean age 53.3 years ± 10.5 years; 77% of subjects female; 39.4% of subjects college graduates; mean and median hours worked were 36.9 (± 13.9) and 40.0 respectively; 6.0% of subjects worked 10 hours or less; reported health kept patients from performing their work 3.9 days ± 7.4 in the last 30 days; number of limited days in last six months 20.7 ± 40.7)
Rheumatoid arthritis: (Lerner et al. 2001, n = 121; mean age 41.3 years ± 11.1; 27.3% male; 85.1% White; education mean: 15.1 (1.9))
Scale |
Items |
Mean |
SD |
48-Item WLQ |
|
|
|
|
9 |
32.5 |
27.4 |
|
11 |
32.4 |
34.5 |
|
14 |
32.9 |
25.0 |
|
7 |
21.4 |
26.2 |
|
7 |
25.7 |
26.2 |
25-Item WLQ |
|
|
|
|
5 |
36.6 |
35.3 |
|
6 |
32.2 |
33.3 |
|
9 |
28.8 |
25.5 |
|
5 |
26.0 |
26.0 |
Rheumatoid Arthritis: (Walker et al. 2005)
Rheumatoid Arthritis: (Lerner et al. 2001)
Scale |
Cronbach α |
48-Item WLQ |
|
|
0.89 |
|
0.96 |
|
0/94 |
|
0.91 |
|
0.91 |
25-Item WLQ |
|
|
0.89 |
|
0.89 |
|
0.91 |
|
0.88 |
Rheumatoid Arthritis: (Walker et al. 2005)
Rheumatoid Arthritis: (Lerner et al. 2001)
48-Item WLQ |
% Floor |
% Ceiling |
|
10.1 |
0 |
|
19.3 |
1.8 |
|
6.4 |
0 |
|
27.5 |
0 |
|
15.6 |
0 |
25-Item WLQ |
|
|
|
13.9 |
0.9 |
|
20.9 |
1.7 |
|
14.8 |
0 |
|
16.5 |
0 |
Osteoarthritis: (Lerner et al. 2002, n = 230; mean age 53.7 years ± 7.1; 65.4% female; 94.7% Caucasian; highest-level education: 34.8% high school, 37.9% college, 27.3% post graduate; occupation: 56.1% non-manual, 25.2% sales and service, 17.0% manual, 1.7% missing; 10.5% self-employed)
Scale |
No. items |
SD |
|
Physical demands |
6 |
23.4 |
22.2 |
Time management |
5 |
28.7 |
31.5 |
Mental-interpersonal demands |
9 |
20.3 |
27.1 |
Output demands |
6 |
21.8 |
26.7 |
Healthy controls: (Lerner et al. 2002, n = 37; mean age 45.0 years ± 6.91; 54.1% female; 94.6% Caucasian; highest-level education: 27.8% high school, 55.5% college, 16.7% post graduate; occupation: 37.8% non-manual, 46.0% sales and service, 16.2% manual, 0% missing; 11.1% self-employed)
Unadjusted Means (SE) |
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Group |
Group |
P-value |
||||
Osteoarthritis (n = 230) |
Healthy Controls (n = 37) |
P-value |
Osteoarthritis (n = 230) |
Healthy Controls (n = 37) |
||
Physical demands |
23.4 (1.5) |
4.5 (1.4) |
<0.001 |
22.7 (24.7) |
8.5 (21.2) |
0.0001 |
Time management |
28.7 (2.1) |
7.2 (3.1) |
<0.001 |
28.5 (32.8) |
10.6 (28.7) |
0.002 |
Mental-interpersonal demands |
20.3 (1.8) |
10.6 (2.7) |
0.004 |
19.9 (28.4) |
11.4 (24.6) |
0.110 |
Output demands |
21.8 (1.8) |
7.2 (2.8) |
<0.001 |
21.2 (27.6) |
8.8 (23.9) |
0.014 |
Osteoarthritis: (Lerner et al. 2002)
Osteoarthritis: (Lerner et al. 2002)
Osteoarthritis: (Lerner et al. 2002
Upper extremity Deficits: (Roy 2011, n=509, mean age: 45.3 (9.2), 57% female, outpatient clinic)
Upper extremity Deficits: (Roy 2011)
Scale |
WLQ-Index Score |
WLQ-25 Summed Score |
RA-WIS |
QuickDASH |
CPG-Total |
CPG-Pain |
CPG-Disability Score |
SPADI-P |
WLQ-Index Score |
|
.93 |
.50 |
.41 |
.23 |
.27 |
.31 |
.23 |
WLQ-25 Summed Score |
|
|
.53 |
.41 |
.22 |
.29 |
.31 |
.27 |
|
.69 |
.73 |
.44 |
.37 |
.10 |
.14 |
.19 |
.17 |
|
.19 |
.35 |
.19 |
.07 |
.07 |
.10 |
.14 |
|
|
.78 |
.81 |
.44 |
.41 |
.18 |
.25 |
.21 |
.23 |
|
.88 |
.74 |
.39 |
.28 |
.24 |
.26 |
.32 |
.21 |
RA-WIS |
|
|
|
.57 |
.33 |
.37 |
.37 |
.47 |
a WLQ-25:Work Limitations Questionnaire-25, RA-WIS:Work Instability Scale for Rheumatoid Arthritis, CPG:Chronic Pain Grade Questionnaire, SPADIP:pain subscale of the Shoulder Pain and Disability Questionnaire. Correlations above .50 (moderate [.70r.50] to high [r.70] correlations) are shown in boldface type. * Significant at P.05, ** significant at P.01.
Upper extremity Deficits: (Roy 2011)
Fehmidah Munir, The Work Limitation Questionnaire, Occupational Medicine, Volume 58, Issue 4, June 2008, Pages 310–311,
Jean-Sébastien Roy, Joy C. MacDermid, Benjamin C. Amick, III, Harry S. Shannon, Robert McMurtry, James H. Roth, Ruby Grewal, Kenneth Tang, Dorcas Beaton, Validity and Responsiveness of Presenteeism Scales in Chronic Work-Related Upper-Extremity Disorders, Physical Therapy, Volume 91, Issue 2, 1 February 2011, Pages 254–266,
Lerner, D., Amick, B. C., Rogers, W. H., Malspeis, S., Bungay, K., & Cynn, D. (2001). The Work Limitations Questionnaire. Medical Care, 39(1), 72-85. Retrieved from https://www.jstor.org/stable/3767701?seq=1#page_thumbnails_tab_contents
Lerner D, Reed JI, Massarotti E, Wester LM, Burke TA. The Work Limitations Questionnaire's validity and reliability among patients with osteoarthritis. J Clin Epidemiol. 2002 Feb;55(2):197-208. doi: 10.1016/s0895-4356(01)00424-3. PMID: 11809359.
Walker N, Michaud K, Wolfe F. Work limitations among working persons with rheumatoid arthritis: results, reliability, and validity of the work limitations questionnaire in 836 patients. J Rheumatol. 2005 Jun;32(6):1006-12. PMID: 15940759.
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