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call polyneuropathy. Walking is not what it used to be. I have to watch carefully where I place my feet. So walking on an uneven surface is difficult for me. That is why I selected this activity.“
Interviewer: ‘
“Do you want your physical therapist to help you with that?“
Respondent:
“No. I go to my physical therapist because lately I got this problem in my shoulder and that causes pain in my arms sometimes. For instance when I lie in bed or when I get dressed.“ Interviewer: “Why haven’t you selected these activities?”
Respondent:
“I did not interpret the question that way.”
A 51 year old low educated low health literate Turkish female housekeeper who partly completed the PSC:
“I selected running, biking, grocery shopping, driving a car and I added handicrafts and helping people. I like running and it is healthy too, so that is very important to me. Shopping for groceries relaxes me. These are all pleasant things that make me feel good. That is why they are so important to me.”
Interviewer:
“And is it hard for you to do these things at this moment because of
physical impairments?”
Respondent:
“No not at all! These are just the things that are very important to
me.”
Suggested activities in section one of the questionnaire were interpreted differently by different respondents. A Dutch adequate health literate 74 year old retired professor of chemistry who completed the PSC stated about the suggested activity ‘walking, taking a walk’:
“When it says ‘walking, taking a walk’ I don’t know what it means. Do they mean moving around, walking fast, hiking? Those are very different activities.”
Some respondents interpreted the term ‘physical activity’ in itself different from what the developers of the PSC intended. A 63 year old Dutch highly educated adequate health literate teacher who partly completed the PSC:
“When I think of physical activities I think of biking, doing sports and
those kinds of things. I do not think of ‘turning over in bed’.”
When being asked to list the three most important physical activities for which he wanted physical therapy, this respondent did not write
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