
Measuring Functioning and Well-Being
The Medical Outcomes Study Approach
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Order this book from Amazon.comMeasuring Functioning and Well-Being is a comprehensive account of a broad range of self-reported functioning and well-being measures developed for the Medical Outcomes Study, a large-scale study of how patients fare with health care in the United States. 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. As demand increases for more practical methods to monitor the outcomes of health care, this volume offers a timely and valuable contribution to the field. The contributors address conceptual and methodological issues involved in measuring such important health status concepts as physical, social, and role functioning; psychological distress and well-being; general health perceptions; energy and fatigue; sleep; and pain. The authors present psychometric results, explain how to administer, score, and interpret the measures, and offer suggestions for further research in health assessment. The measures can be used individually or as a set. Comprising the work of a number of highly respected scholars in the field of health assessment, the measures presented here should be useful in a variety of observational and experimental studies of health outcomes. Technically sophisticated, Measuring Functioning and Well-Being will be of great interest and value to the growing number of researchers, policymakers, and clinicians concerned with the management and evaluation of health care.
Table of Contents
Part One
The New Era of Health Assessment
Chapter One
Measures for a New Era of Health Assessment
Chapter Two
The Medical Outcomes Study Framework of Health Indicators
Part Two
Creation of Databases on the Health of Individuals
Chapter Three
Methods of Sampling
Chapter Four
Methods of Collecting Health Data
Part Three
Generic Health Concepts and Measures
Chapter Five
Methods of Constructing Health Measures
Chapter Six
Physical Functioning Measures
Chapter Seven
Psychological Distress/Well-Being and Cognitive Functioning Measures
Chapter Eight
Health Perceptions, Energy/Fatigue, and Health Distress Measures
Chapter Nine
Social Functioning: Social Activity Limitations Measure
Chapter Ten
Social Functioning: Family and Marital Functioning Measures
Chapter Eleven
Social Functioning: Sexual Problems Measures
Chapter Twelve
Role Functioning Measures
Chapter Thirteen
Pain Measures
Chapter Fourteen
Sleep Measures
Chapter Fifteen
Physical/Psychophysiologic Symptoms Measure
Part Four
Short-Form Measures
Chapter Sixteen
Developing and Testing the MOS 20-Item Short-Form Health Survey: A General Population Application
Chapter Seventeen
Preliminary Tests of a 6-Item General Health Survey: A Patient Application
Part Five
The Validity of MOS Measures
Chapter Eighteen
Methods of Validating MOS Health Measures
Chapter Nineteen
Construct Validity of MOS Health Measures
Chapter Twenty
Summary and Discussion of MOS Measures
Appendix
Actual Patient Assessment Questionnaire (PAQ)
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