As per previous recommendation the English version of Nottingham Extended Activities Of Daily Living Scale will be translated into Urdu and it will be culturally adapted. Nottingham Extended Activities Of Daily Living Scale will be given to eighty individuals of stroke population which were selected on the basis of convenience sampling and the criteria of inclusion and exclusion. Study will investigate both inter-observer and intra-observer reliability of Nottingham Extended Activities Of Daily Living Scale, Modified Barthel Index and Frenchay Activities Index; the 2 set of questionnaire designed will be given to the participants on the same day to be filled, by two observers. And with a gap of half an hour between distributions of first two forms questionnaires will be given for inter-observer assessment. And after a time period of one week a third assessment will be collected by the first observer (intra-observer assessment). Statistical Package of Social Sciences Version 24 will be used for data entry and analysis. Cronbach alpha value will be used for checking internal consistency and intra-class correlation coefficient will be used to analyze test retest reliability.
The aim of the study is to know the validity and reliability as well as to translate and culturally adapt the Nottingham Extended Activities Of Daily Living Scale into Urdu language in Pakistani population of Stroke. This study also aims to correlate the scale with the Modified Barthel Index and Frenchay Activities Index.