How To Score Version 2 Of The Sf 36 Health Survey

Development, administration, scoring of the SF-36 Health Survey. Tests of scaling assumptions. Reliability, precision, and data quality. Validation strategies and interpretation guidelines. Validity : content-, criterion- and norm-based interpretation. Applications of the SF-36. Updates and future directions 2002-. SF-36 Forms.

This manual is the most complete source of information on the SF-36 Health Survey, including: the history and development of the SF-36; how to administer questionnaires, and the construction and scoring of the eight-scale SF-36 health profile. The manual is also the most complete source of general U.S. population norms and other interpretation guidelines for the SF-36 profile. The SF-36 is referred to as a generic measure because it asseses health concepts that represent basic human values that are relevant to everyone's functional status and well-being. Such measures are called generic because they are universally valued, and because they are not age, disease, or treatment specific. Generic health measures assess health-related quality of life outcomes, namely, those known to be most directly affected by disease and treatment. Today's oppertunities to measure health status routinely demand the best compromise between traditionally defined psychometric elegance and the new standard of feasibility and practicality. The SF-36 attempts to achieve reductions in respondent burden withour sacrificing measurement precision below the critical level.

This manual describes self-administered patient questionnaires that were developed for patients participating in the Medical Outcomes Study.

Measuring Functioning and Well-Being is a comprehensive account a broad range of self-reported functioning and well-being measures developed for the Medical Outcomes Study, a large-sale study of how patients fare with health care in the United States. This book provides a set of ready-to-use generic measures that are applicable to all adults, including those well and chronically ill, as well as a methodological guide to collecting health data and constructing health measures. As demand increases for more practical methods to monitor the outcomes of health care, this volume offers a timely and valuable contribution to the field. The contributors address conceptual and methodological issues involved in measuring such important health status concepts as: physical, social, and role functioning; psychological distress and well-being; general health perceptions; energy and fatigue; sleep; and pain. The authors present psychometric results and explain how to administer, score, and interpret the measures. Comprising the work of a number of highly respected scholars in the field of health assessment, Measuring Functioning and Well-Being will be of great interest and value to the growing number of researchers, policymakers, and clinicians concerned with the management and evaluation of health care.