Cargando…

Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury: Review of the Short Form 36-Health Questionnaire Survey

Advances in medical and rehabilitative care have increased interest in studying how different factors may affect the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). There has been a large increase in the number of studies assessing HRQOL among persons with SCI. H...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Ku, Ja Hyeon
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Yonsei University College of Medicine 2007
Materias:
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17594142
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2007.48.3.360
_version_ 1782163655116193792
author Ku, Ja Hyeon
author_facet Ku, Ja Hyeon
author_sort Ku, Ja Hyeon
collection PubMed
description Advances in medical and rehabilitative care have increased interest in studying how different factors may affect the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). There has been a large increase in the number of studies assessing HRQOL among persons with SCI. However, despite these advances, numerous issues remain unanswered because these studies have used a variety of methodologic approaches and assessment tools to examine how different factors have a role in predicting HRQOL in SCI populations. Therefore, standardized instruments should be used as part of this process. The Medical Outcomes Study Short Form (SF-36) was developed in order to survey health status of the general population. However, the available data on the HRQOL of individuals with SCI are currently limited. In addition, there is little information currently available on the factors that are associated with HRQOL in the SCI population and this issue remains controversial. The findings from several individual studies that used the SF-36 to assess the HRQOL of patients suffering from SCI were reviewed, and the results were interpreted with disability in mind. This review article aims to summarize the data regarding the HRQOL of individuals with SCI by using the SF-36.
format Text
id pubmed-2628081
institution National Center for Biotechnology Information
language English
publishDate 2007
publisher Yonsei University College of Medicine
record_format MEDLINE/PubMed
spelling pubmed-26280812009-02-02 Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury: Review of the Short Form 36-Health Questionnaire Survey Ku, Ja Hyeon Yonsei Med J Review Article Advances in medical and rehabilitative care have increased interest in studying how different factors may affect the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of individuals with spinal cord injury (SCI). There has been a large increase in the number of studies assessing HRQOL among persons with SCI. However, despite these advances, numerous issues remain unanswered because these studies have used a variety of methodologic approaches and assessment tools to examine how different factors have a role in predicting HRQOL in SCI populations. Therefore, standardized instruments should be used as part of this process. The Medical Outcomes Study Short Form (SF-36) was developed in order to survey health status of the general population. However, the available data on the HRQOL of individuals with SCI are currently limited. In addition, there is little information currently available on the factors that are associated with HRQOL in the SCI population and this issue remains controversial. The findings from several individual studies that used the SF-36 to assess the HRQOL of patients suffering from SCI were reviewed, and the results were interpreted with disability in mind. This review article aims to summarize the data regarding the HRQOL of individuals with SCI by using the SF-36. Yonsei University College of Medicine 2007-06-30 2007-06-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2628081/ /pubmed/17594142 http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2007.48.3.360 Text en Copyright © 2007 The Yonsei University College of Medicine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Review Article
Ku, Ja Hyeon
Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury: Review of the Short Form 36-Health Questionnaire Survey
title Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury: Review of the Short Form 36-Health Questionnaire Survey
title_full Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury: Review of the Short Form 36-Health Questionnaire Survey
title_fullStr Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury: Review of the Short Form 36-Health Questionnaire Survey
title_full_unstemmed Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury: Review of the Short Form 36-Health Questionnaire Survey
title_short Health-Related Quality of Life in Patients with Spinal Cord Injury: Review of the Short Form 36-Health Questionnaire Survey
title_sort health-related quality of life in patients with spinal cord injury: review of the short form 36-health questionnaire survey
topic Review Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2628081/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17594142
http://dx.doi.org/10.3349/ymj.2007.48.3.360
work_keys_str_mv AT kujahyeon healthrelatedqualityoflifeinpatientswithspinalcordinjuryreviewoftheshortform36healthquestionnairesurvey