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REVIEW article

Front. Rehabil. Sci.
Sec. Strengthening Rehabilitation in Health Systems
Volume 5 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fresc.2024.1450157

Efficient Integration of Personal Factors into the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF): The Importance of Emotional and Motivational Aspects in Goal Pursuit

Provisionally accepted
Ayano Tsuda Ayano Tsuda 1,2*Emmanuel Manalo Emmanuel Manalo 1Ichiro Miyai Ichiro Miyai 3Tomoyuki Noda Tomoyuki Noda 2
  • 1 Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
  • 2 Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR), Kyoto, Kyōto, Japan
  • 3 Medical Director, Morinomiya Hospital, Neurorehabilitation Research Institute, Osaka, Japan

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    The International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) is a widely used framework in rehabilitation that provides standardized measures to describe health and healthrelated states of people. The strength of the ICF lies in its provision of a common language for describing rehabilitation progress. However, personal factors are not classified within the ICF due to their significant variability across cultures, which may render it not adequately capturing the subjective and social dimensions of disability. Our objective in this research was to propose theoretical frameworks that could help identify relevant personal factors for inclusion in the ICF.We discuss the Personality Systems Interaction (PSI) Theory to identify personal variability in goal pursuit, highlighting the importance of emotions like negative and positive affect in handling adverse situations and managing habitual behaviors. Additionally, the theory helps to determine personality factors relevant to patients, facilitating the resolution of potential issues that may emerge during the goal achievement process. We also emphasize the role of goal setting in rehabilitation and suggest the Goal-Oriented Action Linking (GOAL) model as a useful tool for understanding how motivational values change over time, distance, and progress. Following from this, we discuss the importance of self-efficacy and its relationship to effort and goal achievement, while noting potential issues in its assessment. Finally, we propose viable assessment methods for measuring the potential components to be incorporated as personal factors.

    Keywords: goal-setting, International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF), Personal factors, Motivation, Selfefficacy, Personality systems Interaction (PSI) Theory, Goal-Oriented Action Linking (GOAL) Architecture

    Received: 17 Jun 2024; Accepted: 18 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Tsuda, Manalo, Miyai and Noda. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Ayano Tsuda, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

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