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Saxena, Shekhar; Carlson, Dawn S.; Billington, Rex; Orley, John

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“…The WHOQOL-BREF is a self-report 26-item Quality of Life (QoL) inventory developed by the World Health Organization. It has shown relevance in cross-cultural research in a WHOQOL pilot field trial of 15 centers in developed and developing countries using 12 languages [19] and has shown good to excellent reliability and validity [20]. It has four domains: a) physical health, b) psychological health, c) social relationships and d) environment.…”

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Long term quality of life after a wildfire disaster in a rural part of Greece

Papanikolaou¹,

Adamis²,

Kyriopoulos³

2012

OJPsych

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Purpose: The main aims of this study were to evaluate the quality of life of wildfire victims and compare it with that of a control sample of people unaffected by the disaster, and to identify confounder factors (previous psychiatric caseness, demographic factors and losses) which may influence the quality of life. Methods: This was a cross sectional case-control study. Participants belonged to an adult population which had taken part in a previous study 6 months after the disaster. The measured variables were: 1) quality of life using the WHOQOL-BREF measure, 2) previous psychiatric caseness as identified using the SCL-90-R and 3) demographics. Results: Victims of the wildfires had a statistically significant poorer quality of life in the three domains of physical health, psychological health, and environment compared to controls. After adjusting for other variables, the only difference between victims and controls was in the environment domain. Conclusions: Disasters have long lasting effects on victims. Psychological and physical health may improve after some time but environmental quality of life may need longer. However, it is not known yet if the environmental aspect of quality of life could affect other aspects such as psychological health or social relationships in the future.

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Long term quality of life after a wildfire disaster in a rural part of Greece

Papanikolaou¹,

Adamis²,

Kyriopoulos³

2012

OJPsych

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“…Importance items were newly constructed for the present study, drawing on techniques used in constructing importance ratings for the World Health Organization QoL instruments [30,31]. The wording of items was kept consistent with that used in the Kidscreen questionnaire, and responses were recorded on a similar five-point Likert scale.…”

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Exploring response shift in the quality of life of healthy adolescents over 1 year

2008

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“…En estudios transculturales con el WHOQOL-BREF se han obtenido resultados positivos de las propiedades psicométricas (Saxena, Carlson, Billington, & Orley, 2001;World Health Organization, 1998a). Así mismo se ha reportado un buen desempeño del cuestionario respecto a su consistencia interna, validez discriminante, de criterio, concurrente y de test re-test (Chia-Ting, Hong-Son, Ai-Lun, & Chung-Ying, 2014;Skevington, Lotfy, & O´Connell, 2004).…”

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Propiedades Psicométricas De La Versión en Español De La Escala De Calidad De Vida Who Qol Bref en Una Muestra Mexicana

Huerta¹,

Romo²,

Tayabas³

2017

Rev. Iberoam. Diagn. Eval.-Aval. P.

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ResumenEl cuestionario Calidad de Vida, versión breve (WHOQOL-BREF) de la Organización Mundial de la Salud, es un instrumento de medición para evaluar calidad de vida en diferentes escenarios culturales. En el presente estudio se examinan sus propiedades psicométricas: la estructura factorial y consistencia interna de la versión en español, en una muestra de adultos Mexicanos empleando modelamiento de ecuaciones estructurales. Se encuestó un total de 678 participantes: 491 estudiantes de pregrado, 87 choferes de autobús y, 100 cuidadores de enfermos crónicos. Se obtuvieron valores mayores a .70 del coeficiente alfa de Cronbach en las diferentes dimensiones. En el análisis factorial confirmatorio los datos mostraron un ajuste débil con el modelo original de 4 factores. En el último modelo se eliminaron 7 reactivos observándose una mejoría importante en el ajuste del modelo aunque de manera insuficiente (RMR .092, GFI .869, NFI .589, RFI .539, PRATIO .891, PGFI .713). Se concluye que el SEM es un modelo adecuado para la evaluación de la estructura factorial del cuestionario. El modelo de cuatro dimensiones propuesto originalmente en el WHOQoL BREF se ajusta de forma débil a esta muestra, sin embargo se recomienda la evaluación cultural de los reactivos eliminados para obtener un mejor ajuste con el modelo teórico original.Palabras clave: modelo de ecuaciones estructurales, análisis factorial confirmatorio, calidad de vida, WHO QoL BREF, propiedades psicométricas, muestra mexicana AbstractThe World Health Organization Quality of Life BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire is a measurement instrument for assessing the quality of life in different cultural settings. The present study examine the psychometric properties: factorial structure and internal consistence of the Spanish version in a Mexican adult sample, using structural equations modelling. A total of 678 participants were tested: 491 undergraduate students, 87 bus drivers and, 100 caregivers of chronic patients. Cronbach´s alpha for different categories was high .70. In confirmatory factor analysis, the data showed differed slightly from the original 4 factor model, for the last model 7 items were eliminated, noting important in the fit of the model although insufficient improvement (RMR .092, GFI .869, NFI .589, RFI .539, PRATIO .891, PGFI .713). It is concluded that the SEM is an adequate model for the evaluation of the structure factor of the questionnaire. Four dimensional model originally proposed in the BREF WHOQoL is adjusted weak form to this sample, sin embargo A cultural assessment of deleted items is recommended in order to obtain a better adjustment to the original theoretical model.

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Cited by 242 publications

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Long term quality of life after a wildfire disaster in a rural part of Greece

Long term quality of life after a wildfire disaster in a rural part of Greece

Exploring response shift in the quality of life of healthy adolescents over 1 year

Propiedades Psicométricas De La Versión en Español De La Escala De Calidad De Vida Who Qol Bref en Una Muestra Mexicana

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