Short form 36 (SF36) health survey questionnaire: normative data for adults of working age.

Short form 36 (SF36) health survey questionnaire: normative data for adults of working age.

OBJECTIVES To gain population norms for the short form 36 health survey questionnaire (SF36) in a large community sample and to explore the questionnaire's internal consistency and validity. DESIGN Postal survey by using a booklet containing the SF36 and several other items concerned with lifestyles and illness. SETTING The sample was drawn from computerised registers of the family health s...

Short Form 36 (SF-36) Health Survey Questionnaire: normative data for Wales.

BACKGROUND The Short Form 36 Health Survey Questionnaire (SF-36) is used to indicate the health status of particular populations, to help with service planning and to measure the impact of clinical and social interventions. Culture-specific data are required to calculate SF-36 norm-based scores. Currently, in the UK normative sources are nearly two decades old, Anglocentric and lack data on the...

The short form-36 health survey questionnaire in spine surgery.

The Short Form-36 (SF-36) health questionnaire has been put forward as a general measure of outcome in health care and has been evaluated in several recent studies in the UK. We report its use in three groups of patients after spinal operations and have compared it with the Oswestry and Low Back Pain disability scales. There was a significant correlation between all variables of the SF-36 and t...

Brazilian normative data for the Short Form 36 questionnaire, version 2.

METHODS The study Pesquisa Dimensões Sociais das Desigualdades (PDSD) (Social Dimensions of Inequalities) involves 12,423 randomly selected Brazilian men and women aged 18 years old or more from urban and rural areas of the five Brazilian regions, and the information collected included the SF-36 as a measure of health-related quality of life. This provided a unique opportunity to develop age an...

The Short-form-36 Health Survey