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The Swedish SF-36 Health Survey: I. Evaluation of data quality, scaling assumptions, reliability and construct validity across general populations in Sweden.
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Empirical evidence is yielded supporting the feasibility of a non-English language reproduction of the SF-36 Health Survey in Sweden and tests of scaling assumptions including hypothesized item groupings were consistently favorable across subgroups, although lower rates were noted in the oldest age group.About:
This article is published in Social Science & Medicine.The article was published on 1995-11-01. It has received 1344 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Construct validity & Population.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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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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Comparison of methods for the scoring and statistical analysis of SF-36 health profile and summary measures: summary of results from the Medical Outcomes Study
John E. Ware,Mark Kosinski,Martha S. Bayliss,Colleen A. McHorney,William H. Rogers,Anastasia E. Raczek +5 more
TL;DR: Results suggest that the two summary measures may be useful in most studies and that their empiric validity, relative to the best SF-36 scale, will depend on the application.
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Translating health status questionnaires and evaluating their quality: The IQOLA Project approach
Monika Bullinger,Jordi Alonso,Giovanni Apolone,Alain Leplège,Marianne Sullivan,Sharon Wood-Dauphinee,Barbara Gandek,Anita K. Wagner,Neil K. Aaronson,Per Bech,Shunichi Fukuhara,Stein Kaasa,John E. Ware +12 more
TL;DR: The most difficult items to translate were physical functioning items, which used examples of activities and distances that are not common outside of the United States; items that used colloquial expressions such as pep or blue; and the social functioning items.
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Psychometric and clinical tests of validity of the Japanese SF-36 Health Survey
TL;DR: The results of this study provide preliminary interpretation guidelines for all SF-36 scales, although caution is recommended in the interpretation of the Role-Emotional, Bodily Pain, and General Health scales pending further studies in Japan.
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