SF-36 health survey: Manual and interpretation guide

By J. Ware. 2003

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Evaluation of Item Candidates: The PROMIS Qualitative Item Review (2007, methodology): “PROMIS investigators used the following criteria to remove items from consideration: (1) item content was inconsistent with the domain definition; (2) an item was semantically redundant with a previous item; (3) the item content was too narrow to have universal applicability; (4) the stem of the ite”
Acculturation and Acculturative Stress as Predictors of Psychological Distress and Quality-of-Life Functioning in Hispanic Psychiatric Patients (2004, background): “A review of studies evaluating reliability estimates for the SF36 found median reliability coefficients that were equal to or in excess of 0.80 in almost every instance (Ware et al., 1993).”
Quality of life in long-term, disease-free survivors of breast cancer: a follow-up study. (2002, background): “The declines that were observed in physical functioning, role function—physical, bodily pain, and general health are modest and what one would expect in an aging population observed over time ( 41 ,42).”
Validation of a Portuguese Version of the Children’s Hope Scale (2009, background): “Internal consistency reliability coefficients range from 0.67–0.95 (Ware et al., 1993).”
Issues of race, ethnicity, and culture in caregiving research: a 20-year review (1980-2000). (2002, methodology): “…the Caregiving Satisfaction Scale Perceived Emotional Support scale (Pearlin et al., 1990) General Health Index from the Medical Outcomes Trust Short Form—36 Health Survey (Ware, 1993) Acculturation was measured by a single item determining the caregiver's length of residence in the United States.”
The Relationship between Health and Labour Force Participation: Evidence from a Panel Data Simultaneous Equation Model (2007, unknown): “scores for eight dimensions of health ( Ware et al., 2000 ).”
Lay theories of quality of life in older age (2007, background): “…for psychological morbidity (Goldberg andWilliams 1988) ; Townsend’s (1979) physical functioning (activities of daily living – ADL) scale ; self-rated health status (Ware et al. 1993, 1997) ; social activities, loneliness, life expectations, perceived risks, and diagnosed medical conditions.”
Disclosing Trauma Through Writing: Testing the Meaning-Making Hypothesis (2002, unknown): “The SF-36 is a widely used measure of health outcomes and has demonstrated good reliability and validity (Ware, 1993).”
Family caregiver burden: results of a longitudinal study of breast cancer patients and their principal caregivers (2004, methodology): “Caregiver general health status was measured by means of the Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short Form (SF-36).(17,18) Psychological distress was measured by means of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS).”
Is finding something good in the bad always good? Benefit finding among women with breast cancer. (2004, methodology): “To assess health-related quality of life at the initial andfollow-up interviews, we administered the SF-36(Ware, Snow, Kosinski,& Gandek, 1993).”