Measuring the health status burden in hemodialysis patients using the SF-36® health survey
- 01-04-2011
- Brief Communication
Gepubliceerd in:
- Auteurs
- Aaron S. Yarlas
- Michelle K. White
- Min Yang
- Renee N. Saris-Baglama
- Peter Galthen Bech
- Torsten Christensen
- Gepubliceerd in
- Quality of Life Research | Uitgave 3/2011
Abstract
Purpose
The SF-36, a generic measure of 8 domains of health-related quality of life (HRQOL), has been widely used to examine HRQOL of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing hemodialysis (HD). The current study synthesizes existing literature to examine which SF-36 domains capture the largest burden in this patient population.
Methods
A literature search of published studies that presented descriptive statistics for baseline SF-36 scale scores from HD patients was conducted. Disease burden was estimated by comparing HD patients’ SF-36 scores to those from either a control group or a general population normative sample taken from the same country. For each study, Cohen d effect sizes for between-sample differences were calculated for each scale.
Results
Twenty-six articles that matched set criteria were identified. Estimation of differences between HD patients and comparison groups showed that the SF-36 physical functioning scale yielded the largest weighted mean effect size across studies (d = 1.46), followed by the general health (d = 1.29) and role physical (d = 1.21) scales.
Conclusions
Among the eight domains of the SF-36, physical functioning, general health, and role physical scales best captured disease burden for HD patients. The disease burden negatively impacts physical HRQOL more strongly than mental HRQOL.
- Titel
- Measuring the health status burden in hemodialysis patients using the SF-36® health survey
- Auteurs
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Aaron S. Yarlas
Michelle K. White
Min Yang
Renee N. Saris-Baglama
Peter Galthen Bech
Torsten Christensen
- Publicatiedatum
- 01-04-2011
- Uitgeverij
- Springer Netherlands
- Gepubliceerd in
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Quality of Life Research / Uitgave 3/2011
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2649 - DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-010-9764-8
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