| Literature DB >> 11377119 |
G Unal1, J B de Boer, G J Borsboom, J T Brouwer, M Essink-Bot, R A de Man.
Abstract
Four generic [the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP-68), Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36), EuroQol instrument (EQ-5D), COOP/WONCA charts], two domain-specific health-related quality of life measures [the sexuality scale of the HIV Overview Problems Evaluating System (HOPES), Multi-dimensional Fatigue Index (MFI-20)], and a self-developed 12-item symptom index were compared in terms of feasibility, test-retest reliability, internal consistency reliability, construct validity, and known groups validity in patients with chronic liver disease. All instruments could be completed within 10 min and exhibited a good psychometric performance in patients with chronic liver disease. The SF-36 and the MFI-20 performed relatively best in terms of reliability, construct validity, and discriminative ability. The sexuality scale of the HOPES demonstrated a relatively poor performance, as the missing value rate was higher than 5%. Further research is needed into the sensitivity to important clinical changes of the instruments.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID： 11377119 DOI： 10.1016/s0895-4356(00)00372-3
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Epidemiol ISSN： 0895-4356 Impact factor: 6.437