… involved in quality of life overlap with our work in measuring subjective … scales reviewed
in this book, such as the broader measures of health status, psychological well-being and life …

… • Broader measurement scales of health status are frequently used to measure quality of life…
The process of developing measurement scales, and the assessment of quality of life, is not …

… measurement scales, there are inevitable omissions in a book of this size. Notably, classic
scales of … from the scales in this volume, and the author is grateful to the scale developers and …

… measurement scale are regarded as continuous variates that reflect (with error) the subject's
level on that concept for which a measure … to the development of scales, and this has led to …

… to adapt the scale for patients with chronic … Quality of Life Scale" or "Flanagan Quality of
Life Scale." In this paper it will be called simply the QOLS and always refer to the 16-item scale …

… of interest” is determined by: 1) the question or problem of interest; and 2) the scale at which
… scales, we must focus our attention on larger spatial regions or longer temporal scales so as …

… A study looking at a new analgesic for the relief of arthritis may require a disease-specific
instrument such as the Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales (AIMS) or a more generic …

… Language score <2 and no history of dementia) completed the SF-36 as part of a study to
develop a disease-specific stroke scale (Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale 24 ). …

… may require a specific instrument to measure pain perception; for example, the BPI, or a
disease-specific instrument such as the Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales (AIMS),18 or a …

… An advantage of IRT is a focus on evaluating the assumptions underlying the scoring of
unidimensional scales (38). Unidimensionality means that scale items measure a single …