The whoqolsrpb fieldtest instrument exists of 32 questions, covering quality of life aspects related to spirituality, religiousness and personal beliefs srpb. However, as yet no population norms have been published as a reference point against which researchers can interpret their findings. The world health organization quality of life instrument, short form whoqolbref questionnaire is a commonly utilized generic measure of quality of life that is used to measure quality of life in healthy people and in different groups of patients 420. Although scoring the bref is identical to scoring the whoqol100, there are some differences that need to be addressed. Reliability, validity and reproducibility of the whoqol. The whoqolhiv has been developed from an extensive test of 115 questions, plus the whoqol100 in 10 centres around the world. Randomly sampled community residents from two studies were pooled and used to examine the properties of the whoqolbref by age group.
Quality of life of chinese urban community residents. The whoqol bref was derived from data collected using the whoqol 100. Cutoff point for whoqolbref as a measure of quality of. It is a 26 item self report instrument, developed from a longer instrument, the whoqol100, and measures quality of life on four broad domains. The whoqol100 scores from other centers may not be transformed to the 0100 scale. We evaluated the qol of parents of asthmatic and healthy children aged between 8 and 16, using the generic whoqolbref questionnaire. The whoqolbref is a generic quality of life measure, which has been developed simultaneously in many cultures and languages. Randomly sampled community residents from two studies were pooled and used to examine the properties of the. We examined its psychometric properties in a large sample of community residents in mainland china. If you are unsure about which response to give to a question, please choose the best one you can. C, in order to determine whether the tool had good validity for the target audience.
Whoqol instruments and scoring programs have used this transformation to provide comparative data for interpretation. The need of short instruments to evaluate quality of life determines world health organization quality of life group whoqol group to develop an abbreviated version of the whoqol100, the whoqolbref. Psychometric properties and results of the international. The whoqolbref presented adequate internal consistency in most of the domains, except for the social relationships domain. Whoqolbref introduction, administration, scoring and generic version of the assessment introduction the whoqol100 quality of life assessment was developed by the whoqol group with fifteen international field centres, simultaneously, in an attempt to develop a quality of life assessment that would be applicable crossculturally. This instrument has been developed from an extensive pilot test of 105 questions in 18 centres around the world. Psychometric properties and results of the international field trial. It produces scores for four domains related to quality of life. The whoqolbref is a generic questionnaire to measure quality of life created by the study group on quality of life of the world health organization.
The short version of the world health organizations quality of life instrument whoqolbref is widely validated and popularly used in assessing the subjective quality of life qol of patients and the general public. Learning pain neuroscience education from the whoqolbref. Whoqol bref the following questions ask how you feel about your quality of life, health, or other areas of your life. We also evaluated the internal consistency using cronbachs alpha. Application of the world health organization quality of. The whoqolbref was used as one of the assessment instruments. However, an abbreviated world health organization quality of life questionnaire whoqolbref, a generic hindi hrqol measure, has been developed and validated in india. Technical assistance on the project was given by ms.
The whoqolbref was administered to 1052 adult community residents. The world health organization quality of life whoqol assessment is an instrument to measure the quality of life qol, which was developed by the world health organization who, with the aid of 15 collaborating centers around the world world health organization who, 1997. Traducido y adaptado por gonzlez celis y snchez sosa 2003. Whoqolbref the following questions ask how you feel about your quality of life, health, or other areas of your life. Adaptations have been developed for people with hiv whoqolhiv and an. However, other variables not included in the model could play that role. Domain scores for the whoqolbref were calculated by multi plying the mean of all items included within the domain by four. World health organization quality of life bref whoqol. The same steps for the scoring whoqol100 should be followed to achieve scores for the bref. Dr shekhar saxena directed the project that was initiated by dr rex billington and dr john orley. Oconnell1 1who centre for the study of quality of life, department of psychology, university of bath, bath, uk e. Steps for checking and cleaning data and computing domain scores for the whoqolbref prepared by alison harper and mick power on behalf of the whoqol group steps spss syntax for carrying out data checking,cleaning and computing total scores check all 26 items from assessment have a range of 15 recode q1 q2 q3 q4 q5 q6 q7 q8 q9 q10 q11 q12 q. The world health organizations whoqolbref quality of life assessment. Whoqol spirituality, religiousness and personal beliefs.
However, in order to study quality of life, we must be able to measure it. After adjustment for confounds, although the mean scores of the whoqolbref domains with regard to each indicator changed to some extent, the relationships between the three severity indicators and the four domains and the overall quality of life and general health facet of the whoqolbref remained similar. To adapt and evaluate the psychometric properties of the spanish version of the. Assessment of the measurement properties of quality of. It measures the individuals perceptions of qol under the different context of their culture and value systems and. Whoqolbref domain scores demonstrated good discriminant validity, content validity, internal consistency and testretest. Th ese questions represent the finalised version of the whoqolhiv to be used for field trials. The world health organization quality of life bref whoqolbref is a selfreport questionnaire which assesses 4 domains of quality of life qol. Scores between these values represent the percentage of the total possible score achieved. The whoqol hiv group comprises a coordinating group of collaborating investigators in each of the field sites and a panel of consultants. Whoqolbref correlate highly 089 or above with whoqol100 domain scores calculated on a four domain structure.
Since publication use of the whoqolbref has rapidly risen. The instruments drawn up by the whoqol group the whoqol100, the whoqolbref and the whoqolold contain three essential aspects. Whoqolbref scoring the whoqolbref, still in field trials, is a subset of 26 items taken from the whoqol100. Quality of life whoqol bref world health organization. Application of the portuguese version of the abbreviated. This study provides preliminary population norms for this purpose. The whoqol is a quality of life assessment developed by the whoqol group with fifteen international field centres, simultaneously, in an attempt to develop a quality of life assessment that would be applicable crossculturally. The uk whoqolbref instructions please read this carefully this questionnaire asks how you feel about your quality of life, health and other areas of your life. The pilot whoqol, with the response scales added, was pretested with a small sample of health. Domain scores for the whoqol100 are calculated by taking the mean of all facet scores included in each domain and multiplying by a factor of four. Correlations between whoqolbref domains and whoqolold facets proved relatively homogeneous and of mild to moderate intensity varying from 0.
Usefulness of the whoqolbref questionnaire in assessing. The world health organizations whoqolbref quality of. The world health organization quality of life whoqol. It follows that the measurement of health and the effects of health care must include not. I will read out each question to you, along with the response options. Abbreviated world health organization quality of life.
Introducing the whoqol instruments the constitution of the world health organization who defines health as a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing not merely the absence of disease. Development of the world health organization whoqolbref. No studies were found on assessment of the measurement properties of the whoqolbref in patients with breast cancer. Pdf the world health organizations whoqolbref quality. Pdf aplicacao da versao em portugues do instrumento. Preliminary population norms and effect sizes accepted 1 november 2005 abstract. Development of the world health organization whoqolbref quality of life assessment volume 28 issue 3.
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