Psychometric and Clinical Tests of Validity of the Japanese SF-36 Health Survey

Fukuhara, Shunichi; Ware, John E.; Kosinski, Mark; Wada, Sayuri; Gandek, Barbara

doi:10.1016/s0895-4356(98)00096-1

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“…HRQOL in IBS has been studied using generic instruments, mostly the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36), though few studies have used IBS-specific instruments. SF-36 was translated into Japanese and validated (16,17). The IBS Quality of Life measurement (IBS-QOL) is the best choice of IBS-specific instrument, because it has been the most extensively validated and shows appropriate psychometric quality (18).…”

Section: Quality Of Lifementioning

confidence: 99%

Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Torii

Toda

2004

Intern. Med.

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Section: Quality Of Lifementioning

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Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

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Toda

2004

Intern. Med.

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“…The validity of the Japanese SF‐36 is reported elsewhere (Fukuhara, Ware, Kosinski, Wada, & Gandek, 1998). It is designed to assess the following eight health scales: physical functioning (PF), role physical (RP), bodily pain (BP), general health (GH), vitality (VT), social functioning (SF), role emotional (RE), and mental health (MH).…”

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Periodontitis and health‐related quality of life in hemodialysis patients

Iwasaki

Borgnakke

Awano

et al. 2016

Clinical & Exp Dental Res

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Periodontitis is common among dialysis patients. The current cross‐sectional study aimed to explore associations between periodontitis and health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) among hemodialysis patients. Data from 188 dentate patients undergoing hemodialysis between May and July 2008 at a medical center in Kitakyushu city, Japan, were analyzed while applying modified Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/American Academy of Periodontology periodontitis case definitions to categorize the participants into the following three groups: severe, moderate, and no/mild periodontitis, respectively. HRQoL was assessed by the Medical Outcomes Study 36‐Item Short Form Health Survey (SF‐36) where a higher score indicates better health status. Associations between periodontitis groups and the eight health domains of SF‐36 were evaluated using general linear models that were adjusted for age, sex, underlying cause of dialysis, duration of dialysis, comorbidities, serum biomarkers, body mass index, smoking status, and alcohol use. Among the 188 participants, 18 (9.6%) had severe periodontitis, 100 (53.2%) had moderate periodontitis, and the remaining 70 (37.2%) had no/mild periodontitis. Compared with the participants with no/mild periodontitis, those with severe periodontitis had worse scores in the following five of eight SF‐36 health scales: physical functioning, role physical, vitality, social functioning, and mental health (P < 0.05). The findings suggest an independent relationship between severe periodontitis and decreased HRQoL among dialysis patients.

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“…Both instruments had already been translated into Japanese, and their validity and reliability has been established. 12,13 All subjects were aware of their cancer diagnosis prior to completing the baseline questionnaire. Baseline demographic items and a comorbidity index were collected at enrollment.…”

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Distress and social dysfunction following prostate cancer treatment: a longitudinal cross-cultural comparison of Japanese and American men

Namiki

Kwan

Kagawa‐Singer

et al. 2008

Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis

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We assessed the impact of bother with urinary and bowel dysfunction on social activities among men in Japan and the United States following primary therapy for localized prostate cancer. In paired longitudinal outcomes studies, we measured general and disease-specific health-related quality of life in 400 Japanese and 427 American men who underwent radical prostatectomy or brachytherapy for localized prostate cancer. Outcomes included the social function domain of the Medical Outcomes Study Short Form-36 and the University of California, Los Angeles Prostate Cancer Index, all of which are scored 0-100. Participants completed the questionnaires before and 1, 12 and 24 months after treatment. Among men who reported any urinary bother, Japanese men had slightly better urinary function than American men (84 vs 77, Po0.01). Before brachytherapy, urinary bother was weakly correlated with social function in both the countries; after brachytherapy, urinary bother was strongly correlated with social function in American but not Japanese men. After brachytherapy, bowel dysfunction had a stronger correlation with social function in American than Japanese men (Po0.05). The bother associated with urinary and bowel dysfunction after surgery or brachytherapy for prostate cancer has a greater impact on social function in American men than in Japanese men.

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Psychometric and Clinical Tests of Validity of the Japanese SF-36 Health Survey

Cited by 813 publications

References 14 publications

Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Periodontitis and health‐related quality of life in hemodialysis patients

Distress and social dysfunction following prostate cancer treatment: a longitudinal cross-cultural comparison of Japanese and American men

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