Development of short form questionnaires for the assessment of work capacity in cardiovascular rehabilitation patients

283 gainfully employed cardiovascular rehabilitation patients from 14 German rehabilitation clinics, mean age 53.0 years, 81.3% male. Diagnoses included ischaemic heart disease (56.0%), other heart diseases (13.8%), hypertensive diseases (17.7%), or multiple (12.5%).

Development of short form questionnaires (WCIB-Cardio-SF) for cognitive and physical work capacity

Full item banks (WCIB-Cardio)

Psychometric properties including person separation index (PSI), unidimensionality, differential item functioning, and correlation with full item bankspatient reported