Core set da Classificação Internacional da Funcionalidade para lesão medular

The research aimed to describe the instrument development and validation process based on the brief Core Set of the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health for individuals with Acute Spinal Cord Injury. In the methodological study, an instrument was developed to evaluate the functionality of individuals with acute traumatic spinal cord injury. The face and content validation of the instrument was performed by an expert committee, understanding the steps recommended in the literature. As part of this process, a pretest was performed with 10 individuals with acute traumatic spinal cord injury with up to 6 months of injury. In the results, in most items of the instrument, participants made suggestions to modify technical terms, to be replaced or reformulated for better understanding by the target audience. For data analysis the minimum agreement established was 80%. In conclusion, the contribution of the study refers to the possibility of using an innovative tool by the multidisciplinary team in clinical practice.