Doaa Atef Aly Abdelwahed <br/><br/>
Feasibility and reliability of modified functional independence measure questionnaire (weeFIM) in children with healed burns /  
 إمكانية و مصداقية إستبيان قياس الإستقلال الوظيفى المعدل فى الأطفال المصابين بحروق بعد التئامها 
Doaa Atef Aly Abdelwahed ; Supervised Mohamed Mahmoud Abdelkhalek Khalaf , Ahmed Amin Elsheikh , Eman Mohamed Othman 
 - Cairo :   Doaa Atef Aly Abdelwahed ,   2014 
 - 79 P. :   charts ;   25cm 
<br/><br/>Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Physical Therapy - Department of Physical Therapy for Surgery 
<br/><br/> Purpose of the study was to test feasibility and reliability of the wee functional independence measure (weeFIM) in children with healed burns. Fifty three patients with healed burns who were from 3 years to 16 years and were treated in the outpatient burn and surgery clinic in the Faculty of physical therapy - Cairo University / Om Elmisryeen hospital / Kasr Elaini hospital. Data was collected using arabic version of the weeFIM instrument so the study was preceded by arabic translation of the instrument. results of the study showed that the Arabic version of WeeFIM has borderline reliability (cronbach's alpha = 0.619 and pearson correlation coefficient: (r = 0.986). It was concluded that the Arabic version of WeeFIM has borderline reliability and excellent feasibility in measuring and reporting the functional outcome of children with healed burns 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Cross - cultural adaptation Functional independence WeeFIM instrument