From: The Health Utilities Index (HUI®): concepts, measurement properties and applications
ATTRIBUTE | LEVEL | DESCRIPTION |
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SENSATION | 1 | Able to see, hear, and speak normally for age. |
2 | Requires equipment to see or hear or speak. | |
3 | Sees, hears, or speaks with limitations even with equipment. | |
4 | Blind, deaf, or mute. | |
MOBILITY | 1 | Able to walk, bend, lift, jump, and run normally for age. |
2 | Walks, bends, lifts, jumps, or runs with some limitations but does not require help. | |
3 | Requires mechanical equipment (such as canes, crutches, braces, or wheelchair) to walk or get around independently | |
4 | Requires the help of another person to walk or get around and requires mechanical equipment as well. | |
5 | Unable to control or use arms and legs. | |
EMOTION | 1 | Generally happy and free from worry. |
2 | Occasionally fretful, angry, irritable, anxious, depressed, or suffering night terrors | |
3 | Often fretful, angry, irritable, anxious, depressed, or suffering night terrors | |
4 | Almost always fretful, angry, irritable, anxious, depressed. | |
5 | Extremely fretful, angry, irritable, anxious, or depressed usually requiring hospitalization or psychiatric institutional care. | |
COGNITION | 1 | Learns and remembers school work normally for age. |
2 | Learns and remembers school work more slowly than classmates as judged by parents and/or teachers. | |
3 | Learns and remembers very slowly and usually requires special educational assistance. | |
4 | Unable to learn and remember. | |
SELF-CARE | 1 | Eats, bathes, dresses, and uses the toilet normally for age. |
2 | Eats, bathes, dresses, or uses the toilet independently with difficulty. | |
3 | Requires mechanical equipment to eat, bathe, dress, or use the toilet independently. | |
4 | Requires the help of another person to eat, bathe, dress, or use the toilet. | |
PAIN | 1 | Free of pain and discomfort. |
2 | Occasional pain. Discomfort relieved by non-prescription drugs or self-control activity without disruption of normal activities. | |
3 | Frequent pain. Discomfort relieved by oral medicines with occasional disruption of normal activities. | |
4 | Frequent pain; frequent disruption of normal activities. Discomfort requires prescription narcotics for relief. | |
5 | Severe pain. Pain not relieved by drugs and constantly disrupts normal activities. | |
FERTILITY | 1 | Able to have children with a fertile spouse. |
2 | Difficulty in having children with a fertile spouse. | |
3 | Unable to have children with a fertile spouse. |