Technical assistance on the project was given by ms. Usefulness of the whoqolbref questionnaire in assessing. The whoqolbref presented adequate internal consistency in most of the domains, except for the social relationships domain. It follows that the measurement of health and the effects of health care must include not. Psychometric properties and results of the international. Correlations between whoqolbref domains and whoqolold facets proved relatively homogeneous and of mild to moderate intensity varying from 0. 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. C, in order to determine whether the tool had good validity for the target audience. Application of the portuguese version of the abbreviated. The world health organization quality of life whoqol. Learning pain neuroscience education from the whoqolbref.
Randomly sampled community residents from two studies were pooled and used to examine the properties of the. Quality of life of chinese urban community residents. Although scoring the bref is identical to scoring the whoqol100, there are some differences that need to be addressed. 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. The instruments drawn up by the whoqol group the whoqol100, the whoqolbref and the whoqolold contain three essential aspects. The pilot whoqol, with the response scales added, was pretested with a small sample of health. The same steps for the scoring whoqol100 should be followed to achieve scores for the bref.
Traducido y adaptado por gonzlez celis y snchez sosa 2003. However, an abbreviated world health organization quality of life questionnaire whoqolbref, a generic hindi hrqol measure, has been developed and validated in india. 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. No studies were found on assessment of the measurement properties of the whoqolbref in patients with breast cancer. Adaptations have been developed for people with hiv whoqolhiv and an. To adapt and evaluate the psychometric properties of the spanish version of the. The whoqol bref was derived from data collected using the whoqol 100. Whoqol spirituality, religiousness and personal beliefs.
It measures the individuals perceptions of qol under the different context of their culture and value systems and. This instrument has been developed from an extensive pilot test of 105 questions in 18 centres around the world. The whoqolsrpb fieldtest instrument exists of 32 questions, covering quality of life aspects related to spirituality, religiousness and personal beliefs srpb. 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. I will read out each question to you, along with the response options.
The whoqol100 scores from other centers may not be transformed to the 0100 scale. Psychometric properties and results of the international field trial. 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. 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. Pdf aplicacao da versao em portugues do instrumento. 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. Whoqol bref the following questions ask how you feel about your quality of life, health, or other areas of your life. 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. Cutoff point for whoqolbref as a measure of quality of. Oconnell1 1who centre for the study of quality of life, department of psychology, university of bath, bath, uk e. We also evaluated the internal consistency using cronbachs alpha. Dr shekhar saxena directed the project that was initiated by dr rex billington and dr john orley.
Whoqolbref correlate highly 089 or above with whoqol100 domain scores calculated on a four domain structure. If you are unsure about which response to give to a question, please choose the best one you can. 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. World health organization quality of life bref whoqol. Development of the world health organization whoqolbref. Reliability, validity and reproducibility of the whoqol. 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. Whoqol instruments and scoring programs have used this transformation to provide comparative data for interpretation. Application of the world health organization quality of. We examined its psychometric properties in a large sample of community residents in mainland china. Abbreviated world health organization quality of life. The whoqolbref was used as one of the assessment instruments.
However, as yet no population norms have been published as a reference point against which researchers can interpret their findings. The whoqolhiv has been developed from an extensive test of 115 questions, plus the whoqol100 in 10 centres around the world. Whoqolbref the following questions ask how you feel about your quality of life, health, or other areas of your life. Since publication use of the whoqolbref has rapidly risen. The world health organizations whoqolbref quality of life assessment. The world health organizations whoqolbref quality of. 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. Quality of life whoqol bref world health organization. Development of the world health organization whoqolbref quality of life assessment volume 28 issue 3. It produces scores for four domains related to quality of life. Th ese questions represent the finalised version of the whoqolhiv to be used for field trials. Randomly sampled community residents from two studies were pooled and used to examine the properties of the whoqolbref by age group. The whoqolbref is a generic quality of life measure, which has been developed simultaneously in many cultures and languages.
The whoqolbref was administered to 1052 adult community residents. We evaluated the qol of parents of asthmatic and healthy children aged between 8 and 16, using the generic whoqolbref questionnaire. Preliminary population norms and effect sizes accepted 1 november 2005 abstract. It is a 26 item self report instrument, developed from a longer instrument, the whoqol100, and measures quality of life on four broad domains.
Whoqolbref scoring the whoqolbref, still in field trials, is a subset of 26 items taken from the whoqol100. Domain scores for the whoqolbref were calculated by multi plying the mean of all items included within the domain by four. This study provides preliminary population norms for this purpose. Pdf the world health organizations whoqolbref quality. 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. However, in order to study quality of life, we must be able to measure it. Assessment of the measurement properties of quality of. Whoqolbref domain scores demonstrated good discriminant validity, content validity, internal consistency and testretest.
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