Stroke Impact Scale

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The Stroke Impact Scale, or SIS, was developed at the Landon Center on Aging, University of Kansas Medical Center. It measures the aspects of stroke recovery which were found to be important to patients and caregivers as well as stroke experts. After intensive psychometric testing the 59 item Stroke Impact Scale Version 3.0 was developed. The 59 questions of SIS are broken down into eight domains:

• strength
• hand function
• mobility
• activities of daily living
• emotion
• memory
• communication
• social participation

The first four of these domains may be combined into one physical domain, but the others must be scored separately.  In this way, change may be more clearly tracked based on the patient's particular set of symptoms.

The items within the Stroke Impact Scale were derived specifically from the feedback of stroke patients and their caregivers, who identified physical, mental, and emotional changes that were particularly troublesome and contributed to a change in quality of life.

The Stroke Impact Scale (SIS) is an interviewer-administered measure.

Recently the SIS -16 (a 16 item physical dimension instrument) was developed as a brief, stand alone tool for measuring the physical aspects of stroke recovery.
 
Both the SIS version 3.0 and SIS-16 are available in proxy version when patients are unable to answer.  Hard copy instruments, as well as Access databases that perform domain scoring are also available.  

Website:  http://www2.kumc.edu/coa/SIS/SIS_pg2.htm

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