The Quality of Life of Men Who Have Sex with Men in China: Reliability and Validity Testing of the SF-36 Questionnaire

OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to assess the psychometric properties of the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) in the men who have sex with men (MSM) population in China. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 373 MSM from September to December, 2012, in Zhengzhou and Hulud...

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Autores principales: Liu, Jie, Qu, Bo, Hu, Bingxue, Jiang, Nan, Wang, Dongbo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3868567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24367592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083362
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author Liu, Jie
Qu, Bo
Hu, Bingxue
Jiang, Nan
Wang, Dongbo
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description OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to assess the psychometric properties of the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) in the men who have sex with men (MSM) population in China. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 373 MSM from September to December, 2012, in Zhengzhou and Huludao City, China. Internal reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by Cronbach’s α coefficient. Validity was analyzed through construct validity, divisional validity, and collective validity testing. RESULTS: The overall Cronbach’s α coefficient of the SF-36 questionnaire was 0.943, while the Cronbach’s α coefficients for each of the dimensions were all > 0.70. Results showed that the SF-36 questionnaire was reliable and valid. CONCLUSIONS: This study provided evidence that the SF-36 is an acceptable, valid and reliable instrument in evaluating the quality of life of MSM in Mainland China.
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spelling pubmed-38685672013-12-23 The Quality of Life of Men Who Have Sex with Men in China: Reliability and Validity Testing of the SF-36 Questionnaire Liu, Jie Qu, Bo Hu, Bingxue Jiang, Nan Wang, Dongbo PLoS One Research Article OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study was to assess the psychometric properties of the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) in the men who have sex with men (MSM) population in China. METHODS: A cross-sectional survey was conducted among 373 MSM from September to December, 2012, in Zhengzhou and Huludao City, China. Internal reliability of the questionnaire was calculated by Cronbach’s α coefficient. Validity was analyzed through construct validity, divisional validity, and collective validity testing. RESULTS: The overall Cronbach’s α coefficient of the SF-36 questionnaire was 0.943, while the Cronbach’s α coefficients for each of the dimensions were all > 0.70. Results showed that the SF-36 questionnaire was reliable and valid. CONCLUSIONS: This study provided evidence that the SF-36 is an acceptable, valid and reliable instrument in evaluating the quality of life of MSM in Mainland China. Public Library of Science 2013-12-19 /pmc/articles/PMC3868567/ /pubmed/24367592 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083362 Text en © 2013 Liu et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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title_short The Quality of Life of Men Who Have Sex with Men in China: Reliability and Validity Testing of the SF-36 Questionnaire
title_sort quality of life of men who have sex with men in china: reliability and validity testing of the sf-36 questionnaire
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3868567/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24367592
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0083362
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