Health-related quality of life in Switzerland: normative data for the SF-36v2 questionnaire.
Purpose: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important concept to describe well-being of the general population and persons with diseases. The short form-36 (SF-36) is a widely used questionnaire assessing self-reported HRQOL in eight health domains. The aims of this study were to provide n...
| Publicado en: | Quality of Life Research Vol. 28; no. 7; pp. 1963 - 1978 |
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Jul2019
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=137015713&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 137015713 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 09629343 GPQ jtl: Quality of Life Research issn: 09629343 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Jul2019 vid: 28 iid: 7 pid: 237 pub: Springer Nature place: New York, New York artinfo: ui: 137015713 137015713 NLM30848444 10.1007/s11136-019-02161-5 NLM30848444 137015713 ppf: 1963 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Health-related quality of life in Switzerland: normative data for the SF-36v2 questionnaire. aug: au: Roser, Katharina Mader, Luzius Baenziger, Julia Sommer, Grit Kuehni, Claudia E. Michel, Gisela affil: Department of Health Sciences and Health Policy, University of Lucerne, PO Box 4466, Frohburgstrasse 3, 6002, Lucerne, Switzerland sug: subj: Quality of Life Psychosocial Factors Mental Health Statistics and Numerical Data Language Surveys Adolescence Self Report Male Young Adult Ethnic Groups Switzerland Female Middle Age Aged Adult Scales Short Form-36 Health Survey (SF-36) Adolescent: 13-18 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Aged: 65+ years Adult: 19-44 years Male Female ab: Purpose: Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important concept to describe well-being of the general population and persons with diseases. The short form-36 (SF-36) is a widely used questionnaire assessing self-reported HRQOL in eight health domains. The aims of this study were to provide normative data for the SF-36 version 2 (SF-36v2) for all language regions in Switzerland and weighting coefficients to calculate two summary measures for physical and mental health.Methods: A random representative (regarding age, sex, and language region) sample of people living in Switzerland aged 18-75 years in 2015 was eligible for our questionnaire survey. We calculated the eight health domain subscales for different subsamples based on sociodemographic characteristics. Two summary measures for physical and mental health were derived using data-based factor score coefficients and calculated for the subsamples.Results: A total of 1209 persons completed the SF-36v2 (mean age 48.7 years, 58.1% women). The SF-36v2 was valid and reliable in Switzerland. Physical health was better in men (p = 0.012) and younger persons (p < 0.001). Mental health was better in men (p < 0.001) and older persons (p < 0.001). Regarding regional differences, we found better physical (p = 0.002) and mental (p < 0.001) health in German speaking persons compared to French and Italian speaking persons.Conclusions: This paper presents the first SF-36v2 normative data for Switzerland, which are based on a recent study in a representative sample. Our normative data and weighting coefficients will enable future studies to compare HRQOL assessed by the SF-36 in healthy and diseased persons to a representative Swiss sample. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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