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The Factor Structure of the SF-36 Health Survey in 10 Countries: Results from the IQOLA Project
John E. Ware,Mark Kosinski,Barbara Gandek,Neil K. Aaronson,Giovanni Apolone,Per Bech,John Brazier,Monika Bullinger,Stein Kaasa,Alain Leplège,Luis Prieto,Marianne Sullivan +11 more
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In this article, product-moment correlations among the eight SF-36 Health Survey scales were estimated for representative samples of general populations in each of 10 countries and results were compared with those published for the United States.About:
This article is published in Journal of Clinical Epidemiology.The article was published on 1998-11-01. It has received 599 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mental health & Construct validity.read more
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SF-36 health survey update.
TL;DR: The SF-36 (Medical Outcomes Trust, Boston, MA) is a multipurpose, short-form health survey with only 36 questions, which yields an eight-scale profile of scores as well as physical and mental health summary measures as mentioned in this paper.
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Cross-Validation of Item Selection and Scoring for the SF-12 Health Survey in Nine Countries: Results from the IQOLA Project
Barbara Gandek,John E. Ware,Neil K. Aaronson,Giovanni Apolone,Jakob B. Bjorner,John Brazier,Monika Bullinger,Stein Kaasa,Alain Leplège,Luis Prieto,Marianne Sullivan +10 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the SF-12 and SF-36 summary measures in nine European countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the United Kingdom).
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Overview of the SF-36 Health Survey and the International Quality of Life Assessment (IQOLA) Project
John E. Ware,Barbara Gandek +1 more
TL;DR: Information is presented about the development and evaluation of the SF-36 Health Survey, a 36-item generic measure of health status, that summarizes studies of reliability and validity and provides administrative and interpretation guidelines for theSF-36.
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Validity of the brief pain inventory for use in documenting the outcomes of patients with noncancer pain.
TL;DR: Results support the validity of the BPI as a measure of pain in patients without cancer and, in particular, as aMeasure of pain for arthritis and LBP patients.
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Quality of Life in Individuals With Anxiety Disorders
TL;DR: It is expected that a more thorough understanding of the impact on quality of life will lead to increased public awareness of anxiety disorders as serious mental disorders worthy of further investment in research, prevention, and treatment.
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The MOS 36-item short-form health survey (SF-36). I. Conceptual framework and item selection.
John E. Ware,Cathy D. Sherbourne +1 more
TL;DR: A 36-item short-form survey designed for use in clinical practice and research, health policy evaluations, and general population surveys to survey health status in the Medical Outcomes Study is constructed.
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SF-36 health survey: Manual and interpretation guide
TL;DR: TheSF-36 is a generic health status measure which has gained popularity as a measure of outcome in a wide variety of patient groups and social and the contribution of baseline health, sociodemographic and work-related factors to the SF-36 Health Survey: manual and interpretation guide is tested.
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The MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36): II. Psychometric and clinical tests of validity in measuring physical and mental health constructs.
TL;DR: In this article, cross-sectional data from the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) were analyzed to test the validity of the MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) scales as measures of physical and mental health constructs.
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Modern factor analysis
TL;DR: The third edition of HARMAN's authoritative text as mentioned in this paper incorporates the many new advances made in computer science and technology over the last ten years The author gives full coverage to both theoretical and applied aspects of factor analysis from its foundations through the most advanced techniques This highly readable text will be welcomed by researchers and students working in psychology, statistics, economics and related disciplines
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