[PDF][PDF] Development of an objective instrument to assess quality of life in social services: Reliability and validity in Spain

MA Verdugo, B Arias, LE Gómez… - International Journal of …, 2010 - redalyc.org
This study reports on the development and validation of a questionnaire that allows the
objective assessment of the quality of life of social service users. Because of the increasing …

The Quality of Life Scale (QOLS): reliability, validity, and utilization

CS Burckhardt, KL Anderson - Health and quality of life outcomes, 2003 - Springer
The Quality of Life Scale (QOLS), created originally by American psychologist John Flanagan
in the 1970's, has been adapted for use in chronic illness groups. This paper reviews the …

Reliability and validity of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast quality-of-life instrument.

MJ Brady, DF Cella, F Mo, AE Bonomi… - Journal of clinical …, 1997 - ascopubs.org
… This article also reports on the reliability and validity of a 23-item outcome measure, the Trial
Outcome Index-Physical/Functional/Breast (TOI-PFB), which can be used in analyses as a …

Quality of life in people with severe mental illness. Reliability and validity of the Manchester Short Assessment of Quality of Life (MANSA)

T Björkman, B Svensson - Nordic journal of psychiatry, 2005 - Taylor & Francis
reliability, in terms of internal consistency, and construct validity of the Swedish version of
MANSA. MANSA is intended to measure quality of life among individuals with a mental illness. …

Reliability and validity of refractive error–specific quality-of-Life instruments

JJ Nichols, GL Mitchell, M Saracino… - Archives of …, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
Quality-of-life instruments should be reliable, valid, sensitive, and responsive if they are
to be … The objectives of this study were to evaluate the reliability and validity of the NEI-RQL-42 …

Health-related quality of life: validity, reliability, and responsiveness of SF-36, EQ-15D, EQ-5D, RAQoL, and HAQ in patients with rheumatoid arthritis

L Linde, J Sørensen, M Østergaard… - The Journal of …, 2008 - jrheum.org
… All instruments were valid measures for HRQOL in RA. The RAQoL and HAQ displayed
the best reliability, while the SF-36 bodily pain scale and VAS pain were the most responsive. …

Whose quality of life is it anyway?: The validity and reliability of the Quality of Life-Alzheimer's Disease (QoL-AD) scale

L Thorgrimsen, A Selwood, A Spector… - Alzheimer Disease & …, 2003 - journals.lww.com
reliability and validity. This study aims to assess the reliability and validity of the Quality of
Life… The scale was found to have good content validity with no additional items required and all …

The Minneapolis-Manchester Quality of Life instrument: reliability and validity of the Adolescent Form

S Bhatia, MEM Jenney, MK Bogue… - Journal of Clinical …, 2002 - ascopubs.org
… to present internal consistency reliability, discriminate validity, construct validity, and
stability … Overall, the data provide evidence for the validity and reliability of the MMQL-Adolescent …

The reliability and validity of the short version of the WHO Quality of Life Instrument in an Arab general population

JU Ohaeri, AW Awadalla - Annals of Saudi medicine, 2009 - annsaudimed.net
… There is rising interest in quality of life (QOL) research in Arabian countries. The aim of
this … subjects the reliability and validity of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-…

The UCLA Prostate Cancer Index: development, reliability, and validity of a health-related quality of life measure

MS Litwin, RD Hays, A Fink, PA Ganz, B Leake… - Medical care, 1998 - journals.lww.com
… test-retest reliability, internal consistency reliability, and construct validity. Performance on …
established cancer-related health-related quality of life instruments. Two hundred fifty-five long…