Data quality with mixed-mode administration of the short form-36

The Short-form-36 Health Survey

Interpreting Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI) scores: Cross-walk with the Short Form-36

1. Division of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling, UK 2 Institute of Behavioural Sciences, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland 3. Adelante Adult Rehabilitation, Department of Brain Injury, Hoensbroek and Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands 4. Department of Medical Psychology, University Hospital Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany 5. IRCCS, Rehabilitation Hospital, Santa ...

Normative data and discriminative properties of short form 36 (SF-36) in Turkish urban population

BACKGROUND SF-36 has been both translated into different languages and adapted to different cultures to obtain comparable data on health status internationally. However there have been only a limited number of studies focused on the discriminative ability of SF-36 regarding social and disease status in developing countries. The aim of this study was to obtain population norms of the short form ...

Short Form 36 (SF-36) Health Survey Questionnaire: normative data for Wales.

BACKGROUND The Short Form 36 Health Survey Questionnaire (SF-36) is used to indicate the health status of particular populations, to help with service planning and to measure the impact of clinical and social interventions. Culture-specific data are required to calculate SF-36 norm-based scores. Currently, in the UK normative sources are nearly two decades old, Anglocentric and lack data on the...

Psychometric Properties of the Kidney Disease Quality of Life 36-Item Short-Form Survey (KDQOL-36) in the United States.

BACKGROUND The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services require that dialysis patients' health-related quality of life be assessed annually. The primary instrument used for this purpose is the Kidney Disease Quality of Life 36-Item Short-Form Survey (KDQOL-36), which includes the SF-12 as its generic core and 3 kidney disease-targeted scales: Burden of Kidney Disease, Symptoms and Problems of K...