Development of a self-administrated quality of life questionnaire for sarcopenia in elderly subjects: the SarQoL.
Background: the impact of sarcopenia on quality of life is currently assessed by generic tools. However, these tools may not detect subtle effects of this specific condition on quality of life. Objective: the aim of this study was to develop a sarcopenia-specific quality of life questionnaire (SarQo...
| Publicado en: | Age & Ageing Vol. 44; no. 6; pp. 960 - 967 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=110556319&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 110556319 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 00020729 AGA jtl: Age & Ageing issn: 00020729 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Nov2015 vid: 44 iid: 6 pid: 622 pub: Oxford University Press / USA artinfo: ui: 110556319 10.1093/ageing/afv133 ppf: 960 ppct: 7 formats: tig: atl: Development of a self-administrated quality of life questionnaire for sarcopenia in elderly subjects: the SarQoL. aug: au: BEAUDART, CHARLOTTE BIVER, EMMANUEL REGINSTER, JEAN-YVES RIZZOLI, RENÉ ROLLAND, YVES BAUTMANS, IVAN PETERMANS, JEAN GILLAIN, SOPHIE BUCKINX, FANNY VAN BEVEREN, JULIEN JACQUEMAIN, MARC ITALIANO, PATRICK DARDENNE, NADIA BRUYERE, OLIVIER affil: Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics, University of Liège, Liège 4000, Belgium Division of Bone Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland Clinical Gerontology, CHU Toulouse, Toulouse, France Frailty in Ageing Research Department, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium Geriatric Department, CHU Liège, Liège, Belgium Department of French and Romance Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium Institute of Human and Social Sciences, University of Liège, Liège, Belgium su: Quality of life Medical personnel Patients' attitudes Old age Experimental design Expertise Research methodology Questionnaires Research funding Scale analysis (Psychology) Sarcopenia Data analysis software Descriptive statistics sug: subj: Quality of life Medical personnel Patients' attitudes Old age Experimental design Expertise Research methodology Questionnaires Research funding Scale analysis (Psychology) Sarcopenia Data analysis software Descriptive statistics keyword: older people quality of life questionnaire sarcopenia older people quality of life questionnaire sarcopenia ab: Background: the impact of sarcopenia on quality of life is currently assessed by generic tools. However, these tools may not detect subtle effects of this specific condition on quality of life. Objective: the aim of this study was to develop a sarcopenia-specific quality of life questionnaire (SarQoL, Sarcopenia Quality of Life) designed for community-dwelling elderly subjects aged 65 years and older. Settings: participants were recruited in an outpatient clinic in Liège, Belgium. Subjects: sarcopenic subjects aged 65 years or older. Methods: the study was articulated in the following four stages: (i) Item generation--based on literature review, sarcopenic subjects' opinion, experts' opinion, focus groups; (ii) Item reduction--based on sarcopenic subjects' and experts' preferences; (iii) Questionnaire generation--developed during an expert meeting; (iv) Pretest of the questionnaire--based on sarcopenic subjects' opinion. Results: the final version of the questionnaire consists of 55 items translated into 22 questions rated on a 4-point Likert scale. These items are organised into seven domains of dysfunction: Physical and mental health, Locomotion, Body composition, Functionality, Activities of daily living, Leisure activities and Fears. In view of the pretest, the SarQoL is easy to complete, independently, in ~10 min. Conclusions: the first version of the SarQoL, a specific quality of life questionnaire for sarcopenic subjects, has been developed and has been shown to be comprehensible by the target population. Investigations are now required to test the psychometric properties (internal consistency, test--retest reliability, divergent and convergent validity, discriminant validity, floor and ceiling effects) of this questionnaire. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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