Quality of life assessment

Fredric D. Wolinsky; Elena M. Andresen

doi:10.1002/9781118772034.ch12

Quality of life assessment

Fredric D. Wolinsky, Elena M. Andresen

School of Public Health

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This chapter reviews theories, methods, and instruments for assessing quality of life (QOL) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). It addresses the special nature and needs of assessing HRQOL given the burgeoning literature on the topic and its widespread use as an accepted outcome in clinical trials and comparative effectiveness studies. The chapter examines the most widely used HRQOL instruments belonging to the short-form (SF) family. This includes the 36-item, 12-item, and 8-item versions, all of which tap eight domains that should clearly be affected by health and healthcare. The chapter presents several sets of guidelines for evaluating QOL and HRQOL instruments. It concludes with some pragmatic advice for readers about the things to consider when selecting a HRQOL or QOL measure. The chapter also presents requirement for general research, especially of the cross-sectional variety, is a hurdle that most of the QOL indicators.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The Wiley Handbook on the Aging Mind and Brain
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	223-251
Number of pages	29
ISBN (Electronic)	9781118772034
ISBN (Print)	9781118771778
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118772034.ch12
State	Published - Jun 20 2017

Keywords

Clinical trials
Eight domains
Guidelines sets
Health-related quality of life instruments
Quality of life instruments
Short-form family

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Psychology(all)

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