Measuring overall health: An evaluation of three important approaches

Read, J. Leighton; Quinn, Robert J.; Hoefer, Martha A.

doi:10.1016/s0021-9681(87)80027-9

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“…Moreover, one possible source of bias in the present study is that all the subjects were 65 years or older. It is therefore likely that the subjects have some amountof anxiety in common because enced by such patients and may leave essential areas of impairment unaddressed (5,7,9,28), because these measures were originally designed to cover a broad range of diseases. This would also be true for MASand CMI, which were developed as screening tests for the general population (16,17).…”

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Quality of Life Measurements Using a Linear Analog Scale for Elderly Patients with Chronic Lung Disease.

Hiratsuka

Kida

1993

Intern. Med.

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Wedeveloped a linear analogue scale (QOL Scale) to measure the quality of life (QOL) in elderly patients with chronic lung disease. In this study, the validity of the QOLScale was assessed and QOLScale scores were compared with the results of other conventional questionnaires. A total of76 subjects, aged 65 years or older, divided into three groups according to disease severity, were tested by the QOLScale and two additional questionnaires. The QOLScale had the advantages of comprehensibility, acceptability and reproducibility.QOLScale scores differed among the groups, while the other questionnaires showedno significant differences according to disease severity. QOL Scale scores correlated with the tendency toward neurosis shown by another index. Weconclude that the QOLScale is a practical and useful indicator ofQOLin elderly patients with chronic lung disease. (Internal Medicine 32: 832-836, 1993)

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Quality of Life Measurements Using a Linear Analog Scale for Elderly Patients with Chronic Lung Disease.

Hiratsuka

Kida

1993

Intern. Med.

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“…These subscales have been used to measure health attributes in past research [32]. A number of studies support the validity and other psychometric properties of the SF-36 [33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41].…”

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Biopsychosocial functioning and pain self-efficacy in chronic low back pain patients

Koenig¹,

Kupper²,

Skidmore

et al. 2014

J Rehabil Res Dev

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Abstract-The aim of this study was to examine the relationship between biopsychosocial functioning and pain severity and to evaluate whether pain self-efficacy (PSE) mediates this relationship. This study used archival data from a multidisciplinary pain management program. Participants were 99 individuals (69% female) with chronic low back pain who completed measures of biological, psychological, and social functioning; pain severity; and PSE at admission. They ranged in age from 18 to 72 yr (mean = 42.6, standard deviation = 12.1). Structural equation modeling and bootstrapping techniques were used to test the significance of the mediated model. As we predicted, lower biological functioning (beta = 0.011; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.019 to 0.004, p = 0.002) and social functioning (beta = 0.009; 95% CI = 0.016 to 0.003, p = 0.007) were found to significantly predict higher pain severity, and lower social functioning was found to significantly predict lower PSE (beta = 0.196; 95% CI = 0.130 to 0.273, p = 0.002). PSE did not mediate the relationship between biopsychosocial functioning and pain severity, and psychological functioning did not significantly predict pain severity or PSE. These findings suggest that social functioning is an important factor in predicting outcomes and has a number of treatment implications.

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“…It should be noted that the Symptom Problem Complex, which is part of the QWB, some times includes depression or other mental health symptoms (41); however, this does not satisfy the standard of content applied to the forms in Table 1. As a consequence, the empirical validity of the QWB as a measure of mental health is weak (73). Eight of the ten forms (all but QWB and QLI) measure bodily pain, although the SIP includes its pain items in the Emotional Behavior (EB) scales.…”

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The Status of Health Assessment 1994

Ware¹

1995

Annual Review of Public Health

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General health status and a broader concept of quality of life are discussed and methods of widely used surveys are reviewed. A consensus regarding the inclusion of measures of physical, mental, social, and role functioning and general health perceptions is noted for comprehensive assessments of health. A schematic of relationships among condition-specific and generic measures is presented along with results expected for objective and subjective measures of physical and mental dimensions of health. Suggestions are offered for the labeling of disease-specific and generic measures and ways to avoid confound ing of content. Applications of health surveys in general population monitoring, health policy evaluation, clinical trials of alternative treatments, monitoring and improving of health care outcomes, and in everyday clinical practice are exemplified and discussed. A unified measurement strategy is proposed and arguments in favor of standardizing the content of health surveys across ap plications are offered.

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Measuring overall health: An evaluation of three important approaches

Cited by 118 publications

References 8 publications

Quality of Life Measurements Using a Linear Analog Scale for Elderly Patients with Chronic Lung Disease.

Quality of Life Measurements Using a Linear Analog Scale for Elderly Patients with Chronic Lung Disease.

Biopsychosocial functioning and pain self-efficacy in chronic low back pain patients

The Status of Health Assessment 1994

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