A Comparison between Two Instruments for Assessing Dependency in Daily Activities: Agreement of the Northwick Park Dependency Score with the Functional Independence Measure

Table 2

Agreement between the FIM and the NPDS for different basic ADL areas.

	Kappa value	Ase	Sign
Feeding	0.653	0.068	0.000
Toileting	0.803	0.057	0.000
Dressing	0.860	0.047	0.000
Bladder	0.566	0.071	0.000
Bowel	0.457	0.080	0.000
Mobility	0.570	0.067	0.000
Showering	0.824	0.053	0.000