BACKGROUND Previous research suggests that people respond differently to health status measures when data are collected by interview or self completion of a questionnaire. The objective of this study was to determine whether SF-36 health status scores differ systematically by method of administration. METHOD A randomized cross-over study was carried out on 210 new attenders at general medicin...

BACKGROUND Measuring health status in a population is important for the evaluation of interventions and the prediction of health and social care needs. Quality of life (QoL) studies are an essential complement to medical evaluation but most of the tools available in this area are in English. In order to evaluated QoL in rural and urban areas in Lebanon, the short form 36 health survey (SF-36) w...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To develop a self administered Chinese (mainland) version of the Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) for use in health related quality of life measurements in China. DESIGN A three stage protocol was followed including translation, tests of scaling construction and scoring assumptions, validation, and normalisation. SETTING 1000 households in 18 communities of Hangzhou. PARTI...

AIM The study was designed to evaluate quality of life (QOL) for Iranian patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). BACKGROUND GERD is a common and chronic world-wide disease. Impact of GERD on QOL has been studied in many countries, but it has not been studied in Iranian population. PATIENTS AND METHODS Fifty five patients suffering from GERD and fifty five age and sex matched c...

AIM To provide population norms and evaluate metric characteristics of the Croatian version of SF-36 Health Survey, an internationally used instrument for assessing subjective health. METHOD The questionnaire was administered to a representative sample of Croatian adult population (n=9070). Three standard techniques were used in data analysis: reliability tests, descriptive statistics, and fa...

OBJECTIVES The short form 36 (SF-36) health questionnaire may not be appropriate for population surveys assessing health gain because of the low responsiveness (sensitivity to change) of domains on the measure. An hypothesised health gain of respondents in social class V to that of those in social class I indicated only marginal improvement in self reported health. Subgroup analysis, however, s...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate changes in quality of life, anxiety, and depression after cochlear implantation in adults. DESIGN Twenty-seven postlingually deafened adults who had received a MED-EL Combi 40+ implant were investigated. One generic Health-Related Quality of Life measure, the SF-36, two disease-specific measures, the Patient Quality of Life Form (PQLF) and the Index Relative Questionnair...

INTRODUCTION Patient-related outcome measures are crucial when assessing outcome from surgical intervention registers. The aim of this study was to analyse what factors affect Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in patients undergoing cholecystectomy, and to assess the feasibility of SF-36 as a HRQoL instrument in a patient register. METHODS The SF-36 questionnaire was distributed to patie...

Objective Assess quality of life in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) presenting with neuropsychiatric symptoms (neuropsychiatric SLE, NPSLE). Methods Quality of life was assessed using the Short-Form 36 item Health Survey (SF-36) in patients visiting the Leiden NPSLE clinic at baseline and at follow-up. SF-36 subscales and summary scores were calculated and compared with quality...

BACKGROUND The responsiveness of a measurement instrument is important for understanding its ability to detect changes in the progression of a disease. We examined and compared the internal and external responsiveness of the 36-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) and the 39-item Parkinson's Disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39) in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD). METHODS Seventy-four patien...