A validation of the concept of current perceived health and the Current Perceived Health-42 (CPH-42) questionnaire

Quality of Life Research

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 35-42

  Fielding, R ^a   Li, J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

assessment; Chinese; health; health status; perceived health; utilization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT; CONSULTATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; GENDER; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MENTAL HEALTH; POLICE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; RELIABILITY; VALIDITY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0031050017     PISSN: 09629343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Spilker B. Introduction. In: Spilker B, ed. Quality of Life Assessment in Clinical Trials. New York: Raven Press,1990: 3-9.
2. Hyland ME. A reformulation of quality of life for medical science. Qual Life Res 1992; 1: 267-272.
3. Idler EL, Kasl SV, Lemke JH. Self-evaluated health and mortality among the elderly in New Haven, Connecticut, Iowa and Washington. Am J Epidemiol 1990; 131: 91-103.
4. Idler EL, Angel RJ. Self-rated health and mortality in the NHANES-1 epidemiologic follow-up study. Am J Pub Health 1990; 80: 446-452.
5. Wright SJ. Health status assessment. In: Baum A, McManus C, Newman S, Weinman J, West R, eds. Cambridge Handbook of Psychology, Health and Medicine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994.
6. Wright S. Self-ratings of health: the influence of age and smoking status and the role of different explanatory models. Psychol and Health 1987; 1: 379-397.
7. Butler L, Cheang J, Fielding R, Wong CM, Hedley AJ. Assessing patient satisfaction with specialist out-patient services in Hong Kong. (under review) Qual Health Care.
8. Herzlich C. Health and Illness: A Social Psychological Analysis. Graham D, Trans. London: Academic Press, 1973.
9. Blaxter M. Health and Lifestyles. London: Tavistock/Routledge, 1990.
10. Williams R. A Protestant Legacy: Attitudes to Death and Illness Among Older Aberdonians. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.
11. Li J, Fielding R. The measurement of current perceived health among Chinese people in Guangzhou and Hong Kong, southern China. Qual Life Res 1995; 4: 271-278.
12. Fielding R, Li J, Tang YE. Health care utilization as a function of subjective health status, job satisfaction and gender among health care workers in Guangzhou, Southern China. Soc Sci Med 1995; 41: 1103-1110.
13. Li J. The development of an instrument for measuring perceived current health status of people in the communities of southern China and Hong Kong. Unpublished Master's Dissertation. Hong Kong: The University of Hong Kong, 1993.
14. Hunt SM, McEwen J, McKenna SP. Measuring health status: a new tool for clinicians and epidemiologists. J Royal Coll Gen Pract 1985; 35: 185-189.
15. Chong MY, Wilkinson G. Validation of 30- and 12-item versions of the Chinese Health Questionnaire (CHQ) in patients admitted for general health screening. Psychological Med 1989; 19: 495-505.
16. Goldberg DP, Hillier VF. A scaled version of the General Health Questionnaire. Psychological Med 1979; 9: 139-145.
17. Fielding R. Depression and myocardial infarction: A review and reinterpretation. Soc Sci Med 1991; 32: 1017-1027.