Population norms for Health Related Quality of Life using SF-36 are described. A national sample was canvassed in 2000 using a self-administered SF-36 in Bahasa Malaysia and English. Response rate was 30.6%, with 3072 usable data. Male: Female ratio was 1.04 and mean age was 39.8 years. Quality of life was affected by age and sex. Older population and women had a poorer quality of life. Populat...

This article presents information about the development and evaluation of the SF-36 Health Survey, a 36-item generic measure of health status. It summarizes studies of reliability and validity and provides administrative and interpretation guidelines for the SF-36. A brief history of the International Quality of Life Assessment (IQOLA) Project is also included.

This paper reports on the findings of a study to derive a preference-based measure of health from the SF-36 for use in economic evaluation. The SF-36 was revised into a six-dimensional health state classification called the SF-6D. A sample of 249 states defined by the SF-6D have been valued by a representative sample of 611 members of the UK general population, using standard gamble. Models are...

ii Acknowledgements I would like to acknowledge and thank my major professor Dr. Gerald LaHoste for his help in this project. I would also like to extend thanks to Dr. Laura Harrison and Dr. David Ruskin for all of their advice and help in the completion of this project. I would also like to say thank-you to everyone at UNO for making my years here very enjoyable and I wish everyone the best in...

Project was initiated, under the leadership of John Ware of the Health Institute at Boston's New England Medical Center. Its goals were to translate and validate, and obtain normative data using the Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short Form (SF-36), a generic measure of health status or health-related quality of life for use in international studies. 1 At that time, parts of the IQOLA Project w...

The health-related QOL (HRQOL) has been used extensively in clinical and epidemiological research and health service studies. Especially, the Medical Outcome Study Short-form 36-Item Health Survey (SF-36) is a widely used health status measure. However, a Korean version has not been developed and tested yet. The purpose of this study was to develop a Korean version of the Short-form Health Surv...

BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life (QoL) has become a crucial outcome in medical care. However, few studies have assessed physician knowledge of QoL and rate of physicians adopting QoL measures in clinical practice. The present study aimed at assessing the level of knowledge of QoL and the perceived importance of incorporating QoL assessment in clinical practice among physicians of a ter...

BACKGROUND If the SF-36 summary scores are used as health status measures for the purpose of measuring health inequality it is relevant to be informed about the sources of the inequality in order to be able to target the specific aspects of health with the largest impact. METHODS Data were from a Danish health survey on health status, health behaviour and socio-economic background. Decomposit...