Time frame: Evaluations started immediately after receiving ethics committee approval and will be completed within 6 months, which is the study period.
It was developed to evaluate the disability caused by digital ulcers in the hand in patients with Systemic Sclerosis. It consists of 24 questions. There are 8 response options. Responses are scored from 1 to 6. 1 'yes, without difficulty'; 2 'yes, with very little difficulty', 3 'yes, with some difficulty', 4 'yes, with great difficulty', 5 'almost impossible' and 'using only the unaffected hand' (same score for both responses) and 6 'impossible'. The eighth response option 'did not do this activity in the last 7 days' is not included in the scoring. The total HDISS-DU score is calculated as the average of the scores of the questions where the eighth option was not given as an answer (threshold for questions with an eighth answer <12 questions). The total score ranges from a minimum of 1 point to a maximum of 6 points.