Expecting a good quality of life in health: Assessing people with diverse diseases and conditions using the WHOQOL-BREF

Health Expectations

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 49-62

  Skevington, Suzanne M ^a   Mccrate, Farah M ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Disease; Health; Patient reported outcome measure; Psychometric; Quality of life; WHOQOL BREF

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857357320     PISSN: 13696513     EISSN: 13697625     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-7625.2010.00650.x     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Calnan KC. Quality of life in cancer patients - a hypothesis. Journal of Medical Ethics, 1984; 10: 124.
2. The WHOQOL Group. Development of the WHOQOL: rationale and current status. International Journal of Mental Health, 1994; 23: 24-56.
3. Skevington SM, O'Connell KA. Can we identify the poorest quality of life? Assessing the importance of quality of life using the WHOQOL-100. Quality of Life Research, 2004; 13: 23-34.
4. Staniszewska S. Patient expectations and health-related quality of life. Health Expectations, 1998; 2: 93-104.
5. Browne J. Can we (should we!) use patient-reported outcome measures to compare the quality of health care providers. Presentation to the 16th Annual meeting of ISOQOL, New Orleans, USA, October, 2009.
6. Department of Health. Guidance on the Routine Collection of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS). NHS 60; London: 2009.
7. Ware JE, Kosinski M, Keller SD. SF-36 Physical and Mental Health Summary Scales: A User's Manual. Boston, MA: The Health Institute, New England Medical Centre, 1994.
8. EuroQol Group. EuroQol: a new facility for the measurement of health-related quality of life. Health Policy, 1990; 16: 199-208.
9. Skevington SM, Mac Arthur P, Somerset M. Developing items for the WHOQOL: a study of contemporary beliefs about quality of life related to health in Britain. British Journal of Health Psychology, 1997; 2: 55-72.
10. Skevington SM, Sartorius N, Amir M, The WHOQOL Group. Developing methods for assessing quality of life in different cultural settings: the history of the WHOQOL instruments. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2004; 39: 1-8.
11. The WHOQOL Group. The World Health Organization quality of life assessment (WHOQOL): position paper from the World Health Organisation. Social Science and Medicine, 1995; 41: 1403-1409.
12. The WHOQOL Group. The World Health Organization quality of life assessment (WHOQOL): development and general psychometric properties. Social Science and Medicine, 1998; 46: 1569-1585.
13. Bowden A, Fox-Rushby JA. Systematic and critical review of the process of translation and adaptation of generic health-related quality of life measures in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and South America. Social Science and Medicine, 2003; 57: 1289-1306.
14. The WHOQOL Group. Development of the World Health Organization WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment. Psychological Medicine, 1998; 28: 551-558.
15. Skevington SM, Lotfy M, O'Connell KA. The World Health Organization's WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment: Psychometric properties and results of the international field trial. A report from the WHOQOL Group. Quality of Life Research, 2004; 13: 299-310.
16. Chandra PS, Deepthivarma S, Jairam KR, Thomas T. Relationships of psychological morbidity and quality of life to illness-related disclosure among HIV-infected persons. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 2003; 54: 199-203.
17. O'Carroll RE, Smith K, Couston M, Cossar JA, Hayes PC. A comparison of the WHOQOL-100 and the WHOQOL-BREF in detecting change in quality of life following liver transplant. Quality of Life Research, 2000; 9: 121-124.
18. Van Heck GL, de Vries J. Quality of life of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome. Journal of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, 2003; 10: 17-35.
19. Noerholm V, Groenvold M, Bjorner JB, Rasmussen N-A, Bech P. Quality of life in the Danish population - normative data and validity of the WHOQOL-BREF using Rasch and item response theory models. Quality of Life Research, 2004; 13: 531-540.
20. Herrman H, Hawthorne G, Thomas R. Quality of life assessment in people living with psychosis. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2002; 37: 510-518.
21. Stengler-Wenzke K, Kroll M, Riedel-Heller S, Matschinger H, Angermeyer MC. Quality of life in obsessive-compulsive disorder: the different impact of obsessions and compulsion. Psychopathology, 2007; 40: 282-289.
22. Chachamovich E, Trentini C, Fleck MPA. Assessment of the psychometric performance of the WHOQOL-BREF instrument in a sample of Brazilian older adults. International Psychogeriatrics, 2007; 19: 635-646.
23. Amir M, Lev-Wiesel R. Time does not heal all wounds: Quality of life and psychological distress of people who survived the holocaust. Journal of Traumatic Stress, 2003; 16: 295-299.
24. Lin M-R, Huang W, Huang C, Hwang H-F, Tsai L-W, Chiu Y-N. The impact of the Chi-Chi earthquake on quality of life among elderly survivors in Taiwan - a before and after study. Quality of Life Research, 2002; 11: 379-388.
25. Alonso J, Ferrer M, Gandek B et al. ; The IQOLA Project Group. Health-related quality of life associated with chronic conditions in eight countries: results from the International Quality of Life Assessment (IQOLA) project. Quality of Life Research, 2004; 13: 283-298.
26. Fitzpatrick R. Patient-Reported Outcomes: Opportunities and Challenges. MRC Workshop on Patient Reported Outcome Measures. London: Royal College of Physicians, 2009.
27. Skevington SM. Measuring Quality of life in Britain: introducing the WHOQOL-100. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 1999; 47: 449-459.
28. Skevington SM, Carse MS, Williams AC. Validation of the WHOQOL-100: pain management improves quality of life for chronic pain patients. The Clinical Journal of Pain, 2001; 17: 264-275.
29. Skevington SM, Wright A. Changes in the quality of life of patients receiving antidepressant medication in primary care: validation of the WHOQOL-100. British Journal of Psychiatry, 2001; 178: 261-267.
30. Skevington SM, Bradshaw J, Hepplewhite A, Dawkes K, Lovell C. How does psoriasis affect quality of life? Validating the WHOQOL-100. British Journal of Dermatology, 2006; 154: 680-691.
31. Streiner DL, Norman GR. Health Measurement Scales: A Practical Guide to their Development and Use, 2nd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
32. Howell DC. Statistical Methods for Psychology, 5th edn. London: Duxbury, Thomson Learning, 2002.
33. Skevington SM, Bradshaw J, Saxena S. Selecting national items for the WHOQOL: conceptual and psychometric considerations. Social Science and Medicine, 1999; 48: 473-487.
34. Guyatt G, Walter S, Norman G. Measuring change over time: assessing the usefulness of evaluative instruments. Journal of Chronic Diseases, 1987; 40: 171-178.
35. Hevey D, McGee HM. The effect size statistics: useful in health outcomes research? Journal of Health Psychology, 1998; 3: 163-170.
36. Layard R. Happiness: Lessons from a New Science. London: Penguin/Allyn and Lane, 2005.