Spinal Cord Independence Measure (SCIM)

Disability scale developed to specifically address the ability of SCI patients to perform basic activities of daily living independently.
Three versions of the SCIM (I-III) have been consecutively developed and assess three areas:
1. Self-care (feeding, grooming, bathing, and dressing).
2. Respiration and sphincter management.
3. Mobility (bed and transfers and indoor/outdoor).
The item scores are weighted related to the assumed clinical relevance.

Clinical Considerations

The SCIM is quickly becoming one of the most frequently used research tools within the SCI population and has high clinical relevance for the rehabilitation for individuals with either traumatic/non-traumatic and complete/incomplete SCI.
Ceiling and floor effects (especially floor) may be an issue for individuals at either who have very high or low level lesions.
Minimal staff/patient burden is required as the variables collected are important to patient care, reflect basic areas of patient concern, and are routinely collected as a component of standard practice.

ICF Domain

Activity ▶ Self-Care

Instruction for Use and Scoring

Administration

Clinician-administered; a clinician scores the items based on the activities the patient is performing during the regular daily activities or as the patient reports in an interview.
Administration time is usually 30-45 minutes.

Number of Items

Equipment

None

Scoring

Scores are derived by adding up the items producing a total score (0 to 100) and/or subscale scores (self care: 0-20; respiration and sphincter management: 0-40; mobility 0-40).
Item response categories vary from item to item; ranging from 0-2 to 0-15.

Languages

English, Brazilian, Greek, Spanish, Thai, Turkish

Training Required

None

Availability

Can be found here

Statistical Properties

SCIM

# of studies reporting psychometric properties: 3

Interpretability

MCID: not established for SCIM I, II or III in SCI
SEM: not established for SCIM I, II or III in SCI
MDC: not established for SCIM I, II or III in SCI

Higher scores reflect higher levels of independence.
No cut points or norms have been established for the SCI population.
Published data is available for comparison (see Interpretability section of the Study Details sheet).

Reliability

Total inter-rater agreement on the various individual SCIM items ranged from 72-99%
Total agreement was higher than 85% (Kappa coefficients ranged between 0.66-0.98)

(Catz et al. 1997)

Validity

Correlation of the SCIM is high with the:
- Functional Independence Measure (Spearman’s r = 0.80)
- Walking Index for Spinal Cord Injury (Spearman’s r = 0.97)
- Rivermead Mobility Index (Spearman’s r = 0.75)
- Barthel Index (Spearman’s r = 0.70)

(Catz et al. 1997; Catz et al. 2001; Morganti et al. 2005)

Responsiveness

The SCIM was found to be more sensitive than the FIM to changes in function in individuals with SCI. The SCIM detected all functional changes detected by the FIM, and more.

(Catz et al. 1997)

Floor/Ceiling Effect

No values were reported for the presence of floor/ceiling effects in the 4FTPSMW for the SCI population.

SCIM II

# of studies reporting psychometric properties: 7

Reliability

Inter-rater reliability was high for the SCIM subscales (r = 0.797-0.82), and the total SCIM (r = 0.903-0.99).
Correlation between interviewer and observation scores were moderate to high (r = 0.69-0.96).

(Catz et al. 2001; Itzkovich et al. 2003)

Validity

Correlation of the SCIM II was high with the:
- Berg Balance Scale (Spearman’s r = 0.89)
- Walking Index of Spinal Cord Injury (Spearman’s r = 0.81)
- 10-Meter Walk Test (Spearman’s r = 0.89)
- Falls Efficacy Scale (FES-I) (Spearman’s r = -0.78)

(Wirz et al. 2010; Itzkovich et al. 2002; Van Hedel et al. 2009; Kalsi-Ryan et al. 2012)

Responsiveness

In ASIA A subjects, the SRM values were higher for the SCIM II items compared with the walking capacity tests.
The greatest improvements in mobility occurred within the first month, but predominantly between 1 and 3 months.
Between 6 and 12 months, only minimal changes were observed.
There were similar observations in the ASIA B subjects, although these subjects showed more improvement between 6 and 12 months compared with ASIA A subjects.
In ASIA C subjects, the internal responsiveness values were largest between 1 and 3 months. Good internal responsiveness was also observed within the first month and between 3 and 6 months.

(Wirth et al. 2008; van Hedel et al. 2009)

Floor/Ceiling Effect

The median SCIM II score for mobility indoors and mobility over moderate distances reached a ceiling effect at 3 months for complete paraplegia and 6 months for complete quadriplegia.
When examined for the total sample, each of the four age groups, type (paraplegia/tetraplegia), severity (complete/incomplete) and NL, SCIM-III total scale showed negligible ceiling effects (<2%). However, ceiling effects were present in the SC subscale for: the oldest age group (16-17yrs) (24%), neurological level (NL) L1-S4/5 (35.5%), and in the In-room mobility subscale.

(Wirth et al. 2008; Mulcahey et al. 2018)

SCIM III

# of studies reporting psychometric properties: 7

Reliability

Internal consistency of the SCIM III is high (Cronbach’s a=0.77-0.91)
Inter-rater reliability is high for SCIM total (ICC=0.956), as well as all SCIM subscales: self-care (ICC=0.941), respiration/sphincter (ICC=0.844)
mobility in the room (ICC=0.961) and mobility indoors/outdoors (ICC=0.945)

(Itzkovich et al. 2007; Catz et al. 2007; Glass et al. 2009; Bluvstein et al. 2011; Invernizzi et al. 2010; Anderson et al. 2011; Itzkovich et al. 2018)

Validity

Correlation of the SCIM III is high with the Functional Independence Measure (Pearson’s r=0.779-0.91)

(Itzkovich et al. 2007; Catz et al. 2007; Glass et al. 2009; Bluvstein et al. 2011; Invernizzi et al. 2010; Anderson et al. 2011; Mulcahey et al. 2018)

Responsiveness

The ability to identify a 1-point change (admission to discharge) within the 4 areas of SCIM-III in comparison with the total FIM^TMscore were compared using the McNemar test. SCIM-III detected more numerous changes than FIM^TMin 3 of the 4 areas; self-care, respiration and sphincter management, and mobility indoors and outdoors, but not mobility in the room and toilet. The differences between the 2 scales’ responsiveness to changes are not statistically significant.

(Itzkovich et al. 2007; Glass et al. 2009; Bluvshtein et al. 2011; Anderson et al. 2011)

Floor/Ceiling Effect

Ceiling effects were observed in 3 items: Feeding & grooming, Respiration, Bed mobility.
Floor effects were observed in 11 items: Feeding & grooming, Bathing upper & lower body, Dressing upper body, Dressing lower body, Use of toilet, Bed mobility, Transfer Bed-wheelchair, Transfer wheelchair-toilet-tub, Stair management, Transfer wheelchair-car, and Transfer Wheel-chair ground.

(Ackerman et al. 2010; Glass et al. 2009; Anderson et al. 2011)

Reviewer

Dr. Ben Mortenson, John Zhu, Jeremy Mak, Kyle Diab, Risa Fox

Date Last Updated

29 June 2020

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SCIM

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Itzkovich M, Catz A, Biering-SÃ¸rensen F. SCIM III Reliability And Validity: A Multi-Center International Study. ISCoS Meeting Oct 2005 Munich, Germany Abs 34/8
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Itzkovich M, Tripolski M, Zeilig G, Ring H, Rosentul N, Ronen J, Spasser R, Gepstein R, Catz A. Rasch analysis of the Catz-Itzkovich spinal cord independence measure. Spinal Cord 2002;40:396-407.
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Ronen J, Itzkovich M, Bluvshtein V, Thaleisnik M, Goldin D, Gelernter I, David R, Gepstein R, Catz A. Length of stay in hospital following spinal cord lesions in Israel. Spinal Cord 2004;42:353-358.
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Scivoletto G, Morganti B, Ditunno P, Ditunno JF, Molinari M. Effects on age on spinal cord lesion patients’ rehabilitation. Spinal Cord 2003;41:457-464.
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SCIM II

Kalsi-Ryan S, Beaton D, Curt A, Duff S, Popovic MR, Rudhe C, Fehlings MG, Verrier MC. The Graded Redefined Assessment of Strength Sensibility and Prehension: Reliability and Validity. Journal of Neurotrauma, 2012; 29: 905-914.
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van Hedel HJA, Dietz V, and the EM-SCI Study Group. Walking during daily life can be validly and responsively assessed in subjects with a spinal cord injury. Neurorehabil Neural Repair 2009; 23: 117-124.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18997156

Wirth B, van Hedel HJA, Kometer B, Dietz V, Curt A. Changes in activity after a complete spinal cord injury as measured by the Spinal Cord Independence Measure II (SCIM II). Neurorehabil Neural Repair, 2008; 22:145-153.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17761810

SCIM III

Ackerman P, Morrison SA, McDowel S, Vazquez L. Using the Spinal Cord Independence Measure III to measure functional recovery in a post-acute spinal cord injury program. Spinal Cord, 2010; 48:380-387.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19884897

Aguilar-rodríguez M, Peña-pachés L, Grao-castellote C, Torralba-collados F, Hervás-marín D, Giner-pascual M. Adaptation and validation of the Spanish self-report version of the Spinal Cord Independence Measure (SCIM III). Spinal Cord. 2015;53(6):451-4.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25510190

Alimohammad S, Parvaneh S, Ghahari S, Saberi H, Yekaninejad MS, Miller WC. Translation and validation of the Farsi version of the Wheelchair Outcome Measure (WhOM-Farsi) in individuals with spinal cord injury. Disabil Health J. 2016;9(2):265-71.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26586171

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Fekete C, Eriks-hoogland I, Baumberger M, Catz A, Itzkovich M, Lüthi H, Post MW, von Elm E, Wyss A, Brinkhof MW. Development and validation of a self-report version of the Spinal Cord Independence Measure (SCIM III). Spinal Cord. 2013;51(1):40-7.
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Invernizzi M, Carda S, Milani P, Mattana F, Fletzer D, Iolascon G, Gimigliano F, Cisari C. Development and validation of the Italian version of the Spinal Cord Independence Measure III. Disability and Rehabilitation, 2010; 32(14): 1194-1203.
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