Chinese version of SF-36 in the quality of life assessment among community-dwelling elders

WEI Yi-yun~(1,YAN Yan~(1,*,WANG Duo-lao~(2,GUO Yan-fang~(1,ZHANG Lei~(1,SUN Zhen-qiu~(1(1.Department of Epidemiology and Statistics,School of Public Health,Central South University,Changsha 410078,China;2.London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,London University,WCIE 7HT,UK  

Objective To obtain scores in a community-dwelling population over 60 using the SF-36,to assess the reliability and validity of this general health questionnaire,and to analyze the difference in dimension scores among the elderly Chinese in Changsha.Methods We randomly selected 602 elders,aged 60 to 91 years,in multi-phases.All the subjects had resided in Changsha for at least one year. The reliability of the SF-36 was assessed by split-half reliability and Cronbach's α coefficient and the validity through factor analysis and correlation analysis,etc.The dimension scores of different people were obtained by analysis of variance and independent-samples t-test.Results The split-half reliability was 0.72 and the Cronbach's α coefficients of all the 8 dimensions were more than 0.8;the Pearson correlate coefficients of all the items to their dimensions were more than 0.59.SF-36 contained 8 domains and 2 summary scales in the factor analysis.Health-related quality was different in different elders.Conclusion The SF-36 is practical in studying the quality of life among community-dwelling elders.

【Key Words】： SF-36 community-dwelling elder quality of life
【Fund】： 国家自然科学基金(30371234)
【CateGory Index】： R195
【DOI】： cnki:ISSN:1672-7374.0.2006-02-005

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