Project was initiated, under the leadership of John Ware of the Health Institute at Boston's New England Medical Center. Its goals were to translate and validate, and obtain normative data using the Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short Form (SF-36), a generic measure of health status or health-related quality of life for use in international studies. 1 At that time, parts of the IQOLA Project w...

the aim of study was to evaluate the reliability of persian form of quality of life questionnaire -36 items in the patients with bipolar i disorder. present study was cross sectional-descriptive. 50 patients with bipolar i disorder were selected from mehregan hospital by convenient sampling. they were assessed with using of persian form of quality of life questionnaire-36 items. 20 patients (40...

BACKGROUND There is no widely accepted objective evaluation for lumbar spine disorders. New outcome measures should be patient-oriented and should measure symptoms and self-reported functional status in multiple dimensions. The aim of this study was to identify items to be included in the disease-specific quality of life (QOL) questionnaire for the assessments of patients with lumbar spine diso...

The objective of this study was to provide normative SF-36 scores in a general population sample in Brazil and to describe differences in mean scores according to socio-demographic characteristics. The SF-36 questionnaire was distributed to a randomly selected sample of the general population of Porto Alegre in the State of Rio Grande do Sul. The response rate was 68% and 755 subjects were incl...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of pre-intervention factors in patient-reported outcomes at 6 months post-operatively following total knee replacement. METHODS A prospective observational study was carried out using two questionnaires sent to patients while they were on the waiting list for surgery: a generic questionnaire, the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 (SF-36), and a specific que...

BACKGROUND Breast hypertrophy is associated with clinically important morbidity. A prospective study was conducted to assess the change in health-related quality of life (HRQL) following breast reduction mammoplasty. This paper describes the measurement properties of each of the HRQL questionnaires used. METHODS The reliability, responsiveness, and the construct validity of each HRQL instrume...