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Table 4 Outcome measures and abbreviations

From: The effect of animal-assisted interventions on the course of neurological diseases: a systematic review

Outcome measures

Abbreviation

Functional Ambulation Category Scale

FAC

Fugl-Meyer Scale

 Berg Balance Scale

BBS

 NIH Stroke Scale/Score

NIHSS

 Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short-Form

MOSF36 SF

 Stroke Impact Scale

SIS

 Time up to go

TUG

 Timed 10-Meter Walk Test

Timed 10 m-WT

 Modified Motor Assessment Scale (according to Uppsala University Hospital)

M-MAS (UAS)

Subjective assessment of mood with Likert Scale

 Barthel index

BI

 BDL Balance Scale

BDL-BS

Grip strength

 Barrow Neurological Institute screen for higher cerebral functions

BNIS

 Letter–Number Sequencing Test

LNS

 Western Aphasia Battery

WAB

 Client Satisfaction Questionnaire

CSQ

heart rate + blood pressure

 Gait analysis

GA

 State-Trait Anxiety Inventory

STAI

Hoehn and Yahr’s scale

 Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale

UPDRS

 Zung Self-Rating Depression Scale

SDS

 Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire-39

PDQ-39

 Rivermead ADL scale

RAS

 Apathy Evaluation Scale

AES

 Geriatric Depression Scale

GDS

 Korean Berg Balance Scale

K-BBS

Tinetti balance assessment

 Tinetti Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment

POMA

 Korean Beck Depression Inventory

K-BDI

 Hamilton Depression Rating Scale

Ham-D

 Korean Modified Barthel Index

K-MBI

 Occupational Value Assessment

OVal-pd

 Shirom-Melamed Burnout Questionnaire

SMBQ

 EuroQol Visual Analog Scale

EQ-VAS/EuroQol-VAS