The European Brain Injury Questionnaire (EBIQ) as a reliable outcome measure for use with people with brain injury

Sopena, Sara; Dewar, Bonnie-Kate; Nannery, Rory; Teasdale, Thomas W.; Wilson, Barbara A.

doi:10.1080/02699050701630342

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“…This compares favourably with EQIB testre-test reliabilities. 58,59 The correlations with the other measures were a little low (Table 3) and suggest the QOLIBRI offers something different. The known group analysis (Table 4) suggested the QOLIBRI scales are very sensitive to common TBI sequelae.…”

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confidence: 91%

Traumatic brain injury and quality of life: Initial Australian validation of the QOLIBRI

Hawthorne¹,

Kaye²,

Gruen³

et al. 2011

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 91%

Traumatic brain injury and quality of life: Initial Australian validation of the QOLIBRI

Hawthorne¹,

Kaye²,

Gruen³

et al. 2011

Journal of Clinical Neuroscience

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“…The testretest reliability of the QOLIBRI is similar to that of the EBIQ (Sopena et al, 2007), a patient-reported outcome measure developed for TBI.…”

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Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI): Scale Development and Metric Properties

Steinbüchel

Wilson

Gibbons

et al. 2010

Journal of Neurotrauma

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The consequences of traumatic brain injury (TBI) for health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are poorly investigated, and a TBI-specific instrument has not previously been available. The cross-cultural development of a new measure to assess HRQoL after TBI is described.An international TBI Task Force derived a conceptual model from previous work, constructed an initial item bank of 148 items, and then reduced the item set through two successive multi-centre validation studies. The first study with eight language versions of the QOLIBRI recruited 1528 participants with TBI and the second with six language versions 921 participants. The data from 795 participants from the second study who had complete GCS and GOS data were used to finalise the instrument.The final version of the QOLIBRI consists of 37 items in six scales. Satisfaction is assessed in the areas of "Cognition", "Self", "Daily life and Autonomy", and "Social Relationships" and feeling bothered by "Emotions "and "Physical Problems". The QOLIBRI scales meet standard psychometric criteria (internal consistency,  = .75 to .89, test-retest reliability, r tt = .78 to .85). Test-retest reliability (r tt = 0.68 to 0.87) as well as internal consistency ( = .81 to .91) was also good in a subgroup of participants with lower cognitive performance. Although there is one strong HRQoL factor, a six scale structure explaining additional variance was validated by exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses and with Rasch modelling.The QOLIBRI is a new cross-culturally developed instrument for assessing HRQoL after TBI that fulfils standard psychometric criteria. It is potentially useful for clinicians and researchers conducting clinical trials, assessing the impact of rehabilitation or other interventions, or carrying out epidemiological surveys.

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“…It would meet the requirements of clinicians overwhelmed by the accumulation of measures. The QOLIBRI is reasonably short at 37 items and it is at least as easy to understand and complete as generic HRQoL tools which have been used in patients with TBI such as the SF-36 or EBIQ [13,16,66,[74][75][76]. In addition the QOLIBRI poses questions in a positive fashion, with a unidirectional 5-point response option.…”

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“…In contrast, for TBI-related HRQoL such condition-specific tools do not exist and clinicians and researchers have most often relied on measures which explore an individual's capacity to carry out various daily functions, such as the SF-36/Rand-36/ SF-12 [13,16,21,24,[62][63][64][65][66][67] or the European Brain Injury Questionnaire (EBIQ) [68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76]. Increasingly, however, the limitations of such instruments have been recognized and there has been rising interest in developing condition-specific HRQoL measures which target the characteristics of a particular population, disease or condition [12,14,15].…”

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confidence: 99%

Quality of life after traumatic brain injury: The clinical use of the QOLIBRI, a novel disease-specific instrument

Truelle¹,

Koskinen²,

Hawthorne³

et al. 2010

Brain Injury

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The QOLIBRI provides information about patient's subjective perception of his/her HRQoL which supplements clinical measures and measures of functional outcome. It can be applied across different populations and cultures. It allows the identification of personal needs, the prioritization of therapeutic goals and the evaluation of individual progress. It may also be useful in clinical trials and in longitudinal studies of TBI recovery.

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The European Brain Injury Questionnaire (EBIQ) as a reliable outcome measure for use with people with brain injury

Abstract: It is concluded that the EBIQ is a clinically reliable measure to determine the subjective well-being of people with brain injury and to assess change of subjective concerns over time.

Cited by 31 publications

References 29 publications

Traumatic brain injury and quality of life: Initial Australian validation of the QOLIBRI

Traumatic brain injury and quality of life: Initial Australian validation of the QOLIBRI

Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI): Scale Development and Metric Properties

Quality of life after traumatic brain injury: The clinical use of the QOLIBRI, a novel disease-specific instrument

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