THE FRENCHAY ACTIVITIES INDEX IN STROKE PATIENTS - AGREEMENT BETWEEN SCORES BY PATIENTS AND BY RELATIVES

The aim of the study was to compare stroke patients' own scorings of t he Frenchay Activities Index with scorings based on interviews with th eir nearest relatives. Fifty-two patients and relatives were interview ed separately 1 year after the stroke. The mean sumscore based upon in formation from the patients was 29.0, and that based upon the relative s' replies was 27.7 (mean difference 1.4, 95% confidence interval (CI) -0.1 to 2.8). The Kendall tauB correlation between the two sumscores was 0.72 (95 % CI 0.63 to 0.81). In half of the patients the two sumsc ores differed by four points or more, and in every fourth the two sums cores differed by six points or more. The weighted kappa for the singl e items varied between 0.36 and 0.89. No characteristics of patients o r relatives were identified that were related to disagreement between the two scores.