PURPOSE To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Korean short form-36 health survey version 2 for assessing the general population and to provide normative data on the general population. METHODS Six hundred members of the general Korean population were recruited using a multistage quota sampling method. Data quality was evaluated in terms of the completeness of the data and the respons...

STUDY OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of a 3-week comprehensive pulmonary rehabilitation program on quality of life as measured by the Short Form-36 (SF-36) in patients with COPD. DESIGN AND SETTING We report on the outcomes of 37 consecutive patients referred for pulmonary rehabilitation at a respiratory specialty medical center. PATIENTS Thirty-seven patie...

Recently, a shortened version of the Zimbardo Time Perspective Inventory (ZPTI; Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999) was proposed as a ‘‘gold standard’’ (Sircova et al., 2014, p. 9). In this study, we examined the internal consistency and structural validity of this version of the ZPTI in samples of adolescents from the United Kingdom (N = 913) and the United States (N = 815), and adults from Australia (N = ...

OBJECTIVES Understanding the properties of an outcome measure is essential in choosing the appropriate instrument and interpreting the information it generates. The MOS 36 item short form health survey questionnaire (SF-36) is widely acknowledged as the gold standard generic measure of health status; few studies however have evaluated its use for clinical trials in multiple sclerosis. Its clini...

CONTEXT Valid patient-based outcome instruments are necessary for comprehensive patient care that focuses on all aspects of health, from impairments to participation restrictions. OBJECTIVE To validate the Slovenian translation of Medical Outcome Survey (MOS) Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) and to assess relations among various knee measurements, activity tested with Oxford Knee Score (OKS) ...

HYPOTHESIS Data from the 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) do not follow a normal distribution and should not be analyzed using parametric techniques. A novel type of analysis, top-box analysis, may add to the interpretation of these data. DESIGN Review of SF-36 data from preoperative and postoperative patients. SETTING Tertiary care hospital and clinic. PATIENTS One thousand rando...

objective: premenstrual syndrome (pms) is a common psychosomatic disorder and about 30%-50% of women in the childbearing age suffer from mild to moderate form of this disorder and 3%-8% suffer from its sever form. the symptoms of this disorder are related to the specific biological characteristics of women's reproductive age that can start from teen years. the symptoms' devastating effect on th...

OBJECTIVE To compare health-related quality of life in 2 different populations with chronic pain: patients with fibromyalgia and patients with refractory angina pectoris. Previous separate studies have indicated that these patient groups report different impacts of pain on health-related quality of life. METHODS The Short-Form 36 was used to assess health- related quality of life. In order to...

Resumo Objetivo Investigar a correlação entre o engajamento e qualidade de vida dos estudantes graduação em enfermagem medicina uma universidade privada. Métodos Estudo observacional analítico, transversal, abordagem quantitativa, realizado com 219 graduandos, por meio três questionários autoaplicáveis: um os dados sociodemográficos; Study & Well-being Survey para avaliar do estudante Medical O...

in islam, there is special emphesize about the effect of spirituality on humans’ physical and psychological health. one of the very new construct in spirituality is spiritual capital and other is spiritual wellbeing. current research was carried out with the aim of construction spiritual capital and well being scales. sample group was 294 people, which selected through simple random sampling.­ ...