Author : John E. Ware
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (247 download)
Book Synopsis SF-36 Health Survey by : John E. Ware
Download or read book SF-36 Health Survey written by John E. Ware and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This manual is the most complete source of information on the SF-36 Health Survey, including: the history and development of the SF-36; how to administer questionnaires, and the construction and scoring of the eight-scale SF-36 health profile. The manual is also the most complete source of general U.S. population norms and other interpretation guidelines for the SF-36 profile. The SF-36 is referred to as a generic measure because it asseses health concepts that represent basic human values that are relevant to everyone's functional status and well-being. Such measures are called generic because they are universally valued, and because they are not age, disease, or treatment specific. Generic health measures assess health-related quality of life outcomes, namely, those known to be most directly affected by disease and treatment. Today's oppertunities to measure health status routinely demand the best compromise between traditionally defined psychometric elegance and the new standard of feasibility and practicality. The SF-36 attempts to achieve reductions in respondent burden withour sacrificing measurement precision below the critical level.