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Personal functional goals — a new approach to assessing patient-centered outcomes
Author(s)	Lucille B Bearon, Gail M Crowley, Julie Chandler
Journal title	Journal of Applied Gerontology, vol 19, no 3, September 2000
Pages	pp 326-344
Keywords	Patients ; Management [care] ; Quality of life ; Questionnaires ; Evaluation ; United States of America.
Annotation	One dilemma of outcomes research is to find measures that show the impact of an interaction on participants' quality of life (QoL), especially in areas most salient to participants. The authors describe the development and testing of a method for eliciting information about personal functional goals from older people entering an exercise programme and assessing progress after its completion. The authors' Personal Functional Goals (PFG) Interview Protocol includes open-ended questions and a 45-item checklist of goals for health, daily living and general well-being. Testing older people living in the community in controlled exercise intervention studies confirmed the ease of administration and provided preliminary evidence of reliability and validity, including responsiveness to change. Thus, the PFG shows promise for measuring health-related QoL in terms of individual concerns, and is suitable for application in clinical and research settings. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-001108212 A
Classmark	LF: QA: F:59: 3DA: 4C: 7T
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