SF-36

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The Short Form (36) health questionnaire is a non-disease-specific measuring instrument for determining health-related quality of life . The SF-36 is often used in medicine for therapy control or progress measurement. In addition, also in health economics and for research into health-related quality of life in people. The original SF-36 was developed by RAND Corporation as part of the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS). Since then, a group of researchers has refined the questionnaire and released a commercial version of the SF-36. The original version of the SF-36 is available under a public domain license from RAND. The commercial and public versions of the SF-36 are structurally identical. The main differences lie in the evaluation of the question elements.

Content

The SF-36 is composed of eight scaled domains that correspond to the weighted sums of the responses in each section. The range of values ​​for each scale is 0–100, assuming that every question in the sheet has the same weight.

The eight domains of the SF-36 are:

  • vitality
  • Physical functioning
  • Physical pain
  • General health perception
  • Physical role function
  • Emotional role function
  • Social functioning
  • Mental wellbeing

application

The SF-36 can describe the individual state of health of patients and measure and compare disease-related stress over the course of the process. The SF-36 is gaining increasing importance in health economic analysis for evaluating the benefits of medical therapies. In addition to the SF-36, there are also derived quality of life questionnaires with twelve (SF-12), eight (SF-8) or six (SF-6) questions.

restrictions

The questionnaire does not take into account the influence of sleep on quality of life. The SF-36 is less suitable for older people over 65 years of age.

German version

The German version of the SF-36 was used in the 1998 Federal Health Survey and standardized on a sample of 6,964 people.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tarlov AR, Ware JE, Jr., Greenfield S, Nelson EC, Perrin E, Zubkoff M. The Medical Outcomes Study: An application of methods for monitoring the results of medical care. Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) 1989; 262: 925-930.
  2. ↑ SF-36.org: a specialist society for quality of life measurement using SF-36 http://www.sf-36.org/
  3. ^ Hays, RD, Sherbourne, CD, & Mazel, RM (1993). The Rand 36-item health survey 1.0. Health Economics, 2, 217-227.
  4. ^ Medical Outcomes Study SF-36 http://www.rand.org/health/surveys_tools/mos/mos_core_36item.html
  5. ↑ U. Ellert, B.-M. Bellach: The SF-36 in the Federal Health Survey - Description of a current norm sample . Health Care 61, 1999, special issue 2, pp. S184 – S190 (PDF)  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.thieme.de  
  6. ↑ B.-M. Bellach, U. Ellert and M. Radoschewski: The SF-36 in the Federal Health Survey: First Results and New Questions . Federal Health Gazette - Health Research - Health Protection, 43 (3), pp. 210-216, doi : 10.1007 / s001030050036