Validation of the WHOQOL-BREF quality of life questionnaire for general use in New Zealand: confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis
- 01-08-2013
- Brief Communication
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- Auteurs
- Christian U. Krägeloh
- Paula Kersten
- D. Rex Billington
- Patricia Hsien-Chuan Hsu
- Daniel Shepherd
- Jason Landon
- Xuan Joanna Feng
- Gepubliceerd in
- Quality of Life Research | Uitgave 6/2013
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Abstract
Purpose
The present study validated the abbreviated version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL-BREF) questionnaire for general use in New Zealand.
Methods
A random postal sample from the national electoral roll was used, and 808 questionnaires were returned. Psychometric properties of the instrument were assessed, including tests of the four-domain factor structure using confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis.
Results
Goodness-of-fit from the confirmatory factor analysis were good, and the overall conclusion of the Rasch analysis supported the confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) findings after dealing with problems of threshold ordering, local dependency, and differential item functioning (DIF).
Conclusions
The WHOQOL-BREF is valid for general use in New Zealand. In the future work, the WHOQOL-BREF domain scores should either be analyzed using non-parametric statistics or data should be fitted to the Rasch model to derive interval person estimates.
- Titel
- Validation of the WHOQOL-BREF quality of life questionnaire for general use in New Zealand: confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis
- Auteurs
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Christian U. Krägeloh
Paula Kersten
D. Rex Billington
Patricia Hsien-Chuan Hsu
Daniel Shepherd
Jason Landon
Xuan Joanna Feng
- Publicatiedatum
- 01-08-2013
- Uitgeverij
- Springer Netherlands
- Gepubliceerd in
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Quality of Life Research / Uitgave 6/2013
Print ISSN: 0962-9343
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2649 - DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-012-0265-9
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