During the past 4 weeks..........
1. Have you had difficulty lifting things in your home, such as putting out the rubbish, because of your elbow problem?
No difficulty
A little bit of difficulty
Moderate difficulty
Extreme difficulty
Impossible to do
2. Have you had difficulty carrying bags of shopping, because of your elbow problem?
3. Have you had any difficulty washing yourself all over, because of your elbow problem?
4. Have you had any difficulty dressing yourself, because of your elbow problem?
5. Have you felt that your elbow problem is “controlling your life”?
No, not at all
Occasionally
Some days
Most days
Every day
6. How much has your elbow problem been “on your mind”?
Not at all
A little of the time
Some of the time
Most of the time
All of the time
7. Have you been troubled by pain from your elbow in bed at night?
1 or 2 nights
Some nights
Most nights
Every night
8. How often has your elbow pain interfered with your sleeping?
9. How much has your elbow problem interfered with your usual work or everyday activities?
A little bit
Moderately
Greatly
Totally
10. Has your elbow problem limited your ability to take part in leisure activities that you enjoy doing?
11. How would you describe the worst pain you had from your elbow?
No pain
Mild pain
Moderate pain
Severe pain
Unbearable
12. How would you describe the pain you usually had from your elbow?
The 12-item Oxford elbow score questionnaire is not unidimensional and as such you cannot simply total all the 12 questions. There are three unidimensional domains, ‘elbow function’, ‘pain’ and ‘social-psychological’.
The development and validation of a patient-reported questionnaire to assess outcomes of elbow surgery; J. Dawson, H. Doll, I. Boller, R. Fitzpatrick, C. Little, J. Rees, C. Jenkinson, and A. J. Carr; J Bone Joint Surg Br 2008 90-B: 466-473.