Rehabilitation clients who do not return to their previous roles may be considered handicapped. Despite the importance and necessity to quantify client's perceived handicaps, there is no reliability and validity confirmed Chinese instrument to evaluate individual's handicap in Taiwan. The purposes of this study were to translate the broadly used handicap measurement CHART-SF (Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique-Short Form) into Chinese and to examine its test-retest reliability. After getting the permission from authors of CHART, we translated the CHART-SF and its scoring methods into Chinese. Then, the reverse translation and confirmation were held. Test-retest reliability was confirmed in 21 spinal cord injured (SCI) subjects by telephone interviews. Pearson correlation and paired t test were used in analysis. As the results, correlation coefficients between test and retest were over 0.80 in all domains except the Social Integration domain. All item responses correlated significantly and there was no significant difference in any items between the first and the second interview. Generally the CHART-SF Chinese version was well developed and the results confirmed it to be a reliable instrument to evaluate handicaps that the SCI individuals suffered. Its application is expected in the future.社会的不利は障害を受けた個人が従来の役割を果すことに制限を受けることと考えられる.社会的不利の測定が重要であるにも関わらず,台湾では信頼性と妥当性が確認された尺度はない.この研究の目的は広く用いられる社会的不利の尺度Craig Handicap Assessment and Reporting Technique-Short Form (CHART-SF)の信頼性を繰り返してストにより検証することである.我々はCHARTの原作者の許可を得,CHART-SFとその採点法を中国語に翻訳し逆翻訳と確認作業を行った.信頼性の検証は再テスト法を用い,21名の脊髄損傷者に電話インタビューで行われた.分析はピアソンの積率相関係数と対応のあるt検定を使用した.結果では,社会統合領域以外CHART-SFのすべての領域において1回目と2回目のテスト間の相関係数は0.80以上であり,すべての項目回答において有意な相関があり有意な差はなかった.この結果からCHART-SF中国語版は社会的不利を測定するための信頼できる尺度であることを検証した
