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| Measuring health status in older patients : the SF-36 in practice | | Author(s) | Stuart G Parker, Susan M Peet, Carol Jagger |
| Journal title | Age and Ageing, vol 27, no 1, January 1998 |
| Pages | pp 13-18 |
| Keywords | Health [elderly] ; Evaluation ; Physical disabilities ; Cognitive processes ; Measurement ; Patients ; Life satisfaction. |
| Annotation | Response and completion rates by patients aged 65 and over, of the Medical Outcomes Study short form 36-item (SF-36) health status measure were examined. 37 out of 40 patients (93%) attending their general practitioner's (GP's) surgery and 71 out of 80 hospital outpatients (89%) returned a self-completed questionnaire. In hospital inpatients the response was only 46% (369 out of 802). This was improved by interview administration to 77.4% (164 out of 212). Logistic regression analysis revealed that self-completion, cognitive dysfunction, disability and age were all independently associated with poor overall response rates. Among those patients who returned a completed questionnaire, completion of individual questions sufficient to calculate a valid score was variable (62.5% of inpatients, compared with 93.7% of GP patients). The authors conclude that the self-administered questionnaire is unacceptable for hospital inpatients. Use of an interviewer improves response, but factors which influence health status, such as physical and cognitive dysfunction, have a significant effect on response rates. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-981208210 A |
| Classmark | CC: 4C: BN: DA: 3R: LF: F:5HH |
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