Clustering Health Status Among Adults With Hemophilia Using Sf-12 Health Survey

Health-Related Quality-of-Life Measures: Evidence from Tunisian Population Using the SF-12 Health Survey

Objective: To explore reporting differences related to sociodemographic characteristics affecting different health status indicators to assess their impact on the measurement of self-reported health status among the Tunisian population using the Tunisian version of the 12item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-12). Methods: Psychometric properties of the SF-12 were validated for a random sample of in...

Comparing the SF-12 and SF-36 health status questionnaires in patients with and without obesity

OBJECTIVE To assess how well the SF-36, a well-validated generic quality of life (QOL) instrument, compares with its shorter adaptation, the SF-12, in capturing differences in QOL among patients with and without obesity. METHODS We compared the correlation between the physical (PCS) and mental (MCS) component summary measures of the SF-12 and SF-36 among 356 primary care patients using Pearso...

Health status and related factors in farmers by SF-12

OBJECTIVES This study was performed to understand farmers' health status by general characteristic, and to find out the related factors. METHODS All the 984 subjects were interviewed by means of a structured questionnaire and SF-12. Among them, only 812 were eligible for analysis. Statistical methods used included frequency, t-test, ANOVA, binary logistic regression with SPSS 19.0. RESULTS ...

Assessing health status with the SF-36.

The health status burden of people with fibromyalgia: a review of studies that assessed health status with the SF-36 or the SF-12

OBJECTIVE The current review describes how the health status profile of people with fibromyalgia (FM) compares to that of people in the general population and patients with other health conditions. METHODS A review of 37 studies of FM that measured health status with the 36-item Medical Outcomes Study Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) or the 12-item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-12). RESULTS ...