BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE This study evaluated assessments of physical functioning and social functioning using the Stroke Impact Scale (SIS) and Short Form-36 (SF-36) to characterize health-related quality of life for patients after stroke. METHODS The SIS and SF-36 were administered to 278 stroke subjects approximately 90 days after stroke. The SIS-16 and SF-36 Physical Functioning (PF) domain...

Background and Purpose—This study evaluated assessments of physical functioning and social functioning using the Stroke Impact Scale (SIS) and Short Form-36 (SF-36) to characterize health-related quality of life for patients after stroke. Methods—The SIS and SF-36 were administered to 278 stroke subjects 90 days after stroke. The SIS-16 and SF-36 Physical Functioning (PF) domain characterize ph...

Objective: To investigate whether a shorter health status instrument, the short form (SF)-12, is comparable with its longer version, the SF-36, for measuring health related quality of life of patients with coronary heart disease. Design: Prospective cohort study with follow up at six and 12 months. Setting: 18 cardiac rehabilitation centres in Germany. Patients: Patients were enrolled at admiss...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the short form 36 (SF-36) health status measure when used to assess older people's views of the outcome of community based health care. DESIGN Completion of a structured questionnaire, before and after intervention alongside in-depth interviews with a subsample of the interviewees. SETTING Community based continence and mental health services in two health authori...

This article reports on the main developmental stages and on the preliminary psychometric assessment of the final French version of the SF-36. A standard forward/backward translation procedure was followed. When translating survey items, the emphasis was placed on conceptual equivalence. When translating response choices, we attempted to select a set of response choices that replicate the U.S. ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate whether a shorter health status instrument, the short form (SF)-12, is comparable with its longer version, the SF-36, for measuring health related quality of life of patients with coronary heart disease. DESIGN Prospective cohort study with follow up at six and 12 months. SETTING 18 cardiac rehabilitation centres in Germany. PATIENTS Patients were enrolled at admi...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The replicability of the physical and mental component summary scores of the Short Form (SF)-36 has been established using the SF-12 in selected patient populations but has yet to be assessed in stroke patients. If the summary scores of the SF-12 are highly correlated with those of the SF-36, the benefits of using a shorter health-status measure may be realized without su...

This paper investigated whether the SF-12 could replace the SF-36 in the measurement of health status among ischaemic heart disease patients. The SF-36 and SF-12 were administered to 105 cardiac patients. The SF-36 summary scores were strongly correlated and similar to the SF-12 summary scores. Also, the SF-12 scores were as powerful as the SF-36 summary scores in discriminating between subgrou...

OBJECTIVE To examine the use of the Medical Outcomes Study short form 36-item (SF-36) health status measure in older patients receiving health care; to explore the influence of age and physical and cognitive status on response to and completion of the SF-36 questionnaire. DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTINGS Hospital and ambulatory patients aged 65 years and over in the medical ...