Measuring Quality of Life in Back Patients: Comparison of Health Status Questionnaire 2.0 and Quality of Life Inventory

This paper is a reliability and validity test of the Health Status Questionnaire (HSQ) 2.0. In addition, the Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI) is compared with the HSQ 2.0 to assess concurrent validity. The study is unique because these instruments are assessed for the first time using a sample of ch...

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Published in:Social work in health care 1999-01, Vol.28 (3), p.77-94
Main Authors: Claiborne, Nancy, Krause, Trudy Millard, Heilman, Alan E., Leung, Patrick
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Activities of Daily Living
Adaptation, Psychological
Adult
Aged
Analysis of Variance
Back injured people
Back Injuries - physiopathology
Back Injuries - psychology
Back Pain - physiopathology
Back Pain - psychology
Chronic Illness
Comparison
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Female
Health Research
Health Status Indicators
Health Status Questionnaire
Hospitals, Special - utilization
Humans
Male
Measures (Instruments)
Mental Health
Middle Aged
Pain
Patients
Psychological tests
Quality of Life
Quality of Life Inventory
Reliability
Reproducibility of Results
Social Adjustment
Social Work
Surveys and Questionnaires - standards
Texas
Validity
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Summary:This paper is a reliability and validity test of the Health Status Questionnaire (HSQ) 2.0. In addition, the Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI) is compared with the HSQ 2.0 to assess concurrent validity. The study is unique because these instruments are assessed for the first time using a sample of chronic back patients. Practitioners will therefore now be able to evaluate important quality of life issues and treatment changes in this population. The HSQ 2.0 was generally found to be valid for these patients. However, two scale domains were not differentiated due to unique characteristics of spinal disease patients. The QOLI, due to the limitation of measuring only psychological well-being, did not measure problems specific to back patients.
ISSN:0098-1389
1541-034X
DOI:10.1300/J010v28n03_05