Parsimonious and efficient assessment of health-related quality of life in osteoarthritis research: validation of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) instrument Whitfield, Kathryn, Buchbinder, Rachelle, Segal, Leonie and Osborne, Richard 2006, Parsimonious and efficient assessment of health-related quality of life in osteoarthritis research: validation of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) instrument, Health and quality of life outcomes, vol. 4, no. 19, pp. 1-10, doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-4-19. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads osborne-parsimoniousandefficient-2006.pdf Published version application/pdf 297.46KB 270 Title Parsimonious and efficient assessment of health-related quality of life in osteoarthritis research: validation of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) instrument Author(s) Whitfield, Kathryn Buchbinder, Rachelle Segal, Leonie Osborne, Richard Journal name Health and quality of life outcomes Volume number 4 Issue number 19 Start page 1 End page 10 Publisher BioMed Central Ltd. Place of publication London, England Publication date 2006-03 ISSN 1477-7525 Summary Background: The Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) utility instrument was psychometrically developed for the general population. This study aimed to explore its potential as an osteoarthritis (OA) outcome measure. Methods: WOMAC, Lequesne index, SF-36, Visual analogue scales and the AQoL were administered to 222 people with OA. The ability of each questionnaire to detect differences between groups was based on (i) self-rated health (SRH) and, (ii) differences between people on an orthopedic waiting list (WL) vs people with OA in the community (C). Comparisons included effect size, relative efficiency and receiver operator characteristic curves. Results: All instruments detected differences between groups; however no one instrument exhibited superior efficiency. The AQoL demonstrated strong psychometric properties. Conclusion: The AQoL has equivalent performance to comparator questionnaires commonly used in OA research and would be a useful adjunct to well-established disease specific scales. The AQoL has important advantages; brevity (12 items), facilitates comparisons between disease groups, and delivers a utility score that can be used in health economic evaluations. Notes This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Language eng DOI 10.1186/1477-7525-4-19 Field of Research 110399 Clinical Sciences not elsewhere classified Socio Economic Objective 970111 Expanding Knowledge in the Medical and Health Sciences HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2006, Whitfield et al. Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30019104 Document type: Journal Article Collections: School of Health and Social Development Open Access Collection Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Every reasonable effort has been made to ensure that permission has been obtained for items included in DRO. If you believe that your rights have been infringed by this repository, please contact drosupport@deakin.edu.au. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 11 Sep 2009, 10:31:34 EST Fri, 11 Sep 2009, 10:34:34 EST Fri, 11 Sep 2009, 14:30:52 EST Fri, 16 Oct 2009, 13:32:46 EST Thu, 25 Feb 2010, 10:57:22 EST Thu, 18 Aug 2011, 10:14:14 EST Thu, 18 Oct 2012, 11:28:58 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 34 times in TR Web of Science Cited 40 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 465 Abstract Views, 270 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 11 Sep 2009, 10:31:31 EST by Lorraine Driscoll

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