Functional Status

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Journal Article

Method of Validating MOS Health Measures — Jan 1, 1992

This chapter presents an overview of the essential steps necessary to validate health measures and indicates the types of validation studies that have been performed on the MOS measures.

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Preliminary Tests of a 6-Item General Health Survey: A Patient Application — Jan 1, 1992

This chapter presents a description of the survey instrument designed to measure the six health concepts selected by MOS (physical, social, role functioning, bodily pain, mental health under psychological distress, and general health perceptions) using a single-item measure for each.

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Developing and Testing the MOS 20-Item Short-Form Health Survey: A General Population Application — Jan 1, 1992

The MOS tested a short-form survey instrument that provides a solution to the problem faced by many investigators who must restrict survey length. The instrument is designed to reduce respondent burden while achieving minimum standards of precision for purposes of group comparisons involving multiple health dimensions.

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Physical/psychophysiologic Symptoms Measure — Jan 1, 1992

The focus in this chapter is on the development of a measure of general physical and psychophysiologic symptoms.

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Sleep Measures — Jan 1, 1992

Sleep is defined as a suspension of normal waking consciousness that involves a diminished capacity for interaction with one's environment. The basic strategy in developing the MOS measures of sleep was to build a set of measures conforming to eight theoretical dimensions reflective of health status (initiation and maintenance of sleep, quantity and perceived adequacy, somnolence, respiratory impairments, sleep regularity, and use of sleep medications).

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Pain Measures — Jan 1, 1992

The MOS focused on two basic dimensions of pain: severity in terms of intensity, frequency, and duration, and behavioral/mood effects. A 12-item battery of pain items was constructed.

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Role Functioning Measures — Jan 1, 1992

In the MOS, the authors sought to improve the validity of role functioning measures by separately defining and assessing role limitations due to physical and emotional problems.

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Measures for a New Era of Health Assessment — Jan 1, 1992

This chapter characterizes the state of the art of health assessment and identifies some of the advances necessary to meet the needs of various appplications of health surveys.

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The Medical Outcomes Study Framework of Health Indicators — Jan 1, 1992

This chapter introduces a new, comprehensive, conceptual framework of health that incorporates patient health surveys and other data sources.

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Methods of Sampling — Jan 1, 1992

This chapter discusses sampling goals and methods. An important feature of the MOS sampling strategy was the selection of patients for follow-up according to the tracer conditions: hypertension, diabetes, depression, and heart disease.

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Methods of Collecting Health Data — Jan 1, 1992

This chapter describes the survey methods of data collection, including short screening forms administered to patients in doctors' offices and questionnaires that are mailed to respondents.

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Social Functioning: Social Activity Limitations Measure — Jan 1, 1992

Social functioning is defined as the ability to develop, maintain, and nurture major social relationships. A social activity limitations measure can be used to assess health-related limitations in normal or usual social activities.

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Methods of Constructing Health Measures — Jan 1, 1992

This chapter summarizes the MOS approach to writing questionnaire items, protesting measures, constructing multi-item scales, evaluating scale variability, reliability, and stability, and labeling measures.

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Physical Functioning Measures — Jan 1, 1992

This chapter discusses issues with measures physical functioning: the performance of the capacity to perform a variety of physical activities normal for people in good health.

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Measuring Functioning and Well-Being: The Medical Outcomes Study Approach — Jan 1, 1992

This book provides a set of ready-to-use generic measures that are applicable to all adults, including those well and chronically ill, as well as a methodological guide to collecting health data and constructing health measures.

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Benefits and Obstacles of Health Status Assessment in Ambulatory Settings: The Clinician's Point of View — Jan 1, 1992

In the past decade physicians have identified the need to expand patient assessment to include global function and quality of life.

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The MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) — Jan 1, 1992

The content and features of the SF-36 are compared with the 10-item Medical Outcomes Study short-form.

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Failure of Physicians to Recognize Functional Disability in Ambulatory Patients — Jan 1, 1991

Physicians often underestimate or fail to recognize functional disabilities that are reported by their patients.

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