Washington Group Questions

Questions ask about health-related difficulties in six core functional domains: seeing, hearing, walking, cognition, self care, communication

1. Do you have difficulty seeing, even if wearing glasses?
2. Do you have difficulty hearing, even if using a hearing aid?
3. Do you have difficulty walking or climbing steps?
4. Do you have difficulty remembering or concentrating?
5. Do you have difficulty (with self-care such as) washing all over or dressing?
6. Using your usual (customary) language, do you have difficulty communicating, (for example understanding or being understood by others)?

Each question has four scaled response categories to capture the full spectrum of functioning from mild to severe:

a)No, no difficulty
b) Yes, some difficulty
c) Yes, a lot of difficulty
d) Cannot do it at all