What is perfect health to an 85-year-old?: Evidence for scale recalibration in subjective health ratings

Medical Care

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1054-1057

  Ubel, Peter A ^a,b,c   Jankovic, Aleksandra ^a   Smith, Dylan ^a,b   Langa, Kenneth M ^a,b   Fagerlin, Angela ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c Prog Improving Hlth Care Decisions   (United States)

Author keywords

Health and Retirement Study; Health related utility; Questionnaire; Scale recalibration

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CALIBRATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOMETRY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SELF CONCEPT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CALIBRATION; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 26644441430     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.mlr.0000178193.38413.70     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. McBowell I, Neell C. Measuring Health: A Guide to Rating Scales and Questionnaires. Oxford: Oxford University Press; 1996.
2. Wilson IB. Clinical understanding and clinical implications of response shift. Soc Sci Med. 1999;48:1577-1588.
3. Ubel PA, Loewenstein G, Jepson C. Whose quality of life? A commentary exploring discrepancies between health state evaluations of patients and the general public. Qual Life Res. 2003;12:599-607.
4. Juster FT. An overview of the health and retirement study. Journal of Human Resources. 1995;30:S7-56.
5. Katz S, Ford AB, Moskowitz RW, et al. Studies of illness in the aged. The Index of ADL: a standardized measure of biological and psychosocial function. JAMA. 1963;185:914-919.
6. Aiken LS, West SG. Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications; 1991.
7. Baron J, Asch DA, Fagerlin A, et al. Effect of assessment method on the discrepancy between judgments of health disorders people have and do not have: a web study. Med Decis Making. 2003;23:422-434.