Article: Validation of the quality of life questionnaire of the European foundation for osteoporosis (QUALEFFO-31) in Chinese
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| Title | Validation of the quality of life questionnaire of the European foundation for osteoporosis (QUALEFFO-31) in Chinese | ||||||
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| Authors | Lai, BMH1 Tsang, SWY1 Lam, CLK1 Kung, AWC1 | ||||||
| Keywords | Chinese Construct validation Health-related quality of life Morphometric fracture Osteoporosis QUALEFFO-31 | ||||||
| Issue Date | 2010 | ||||||
| Publisher | Springer-Verlag London Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10067/ | ||||||
| Citation | Clinical Rheumatology, 2010, v. 29 n. 9, p. 965-972 [How to Cite?] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10067-010-1495-2 | ||||||
| Abstract | QUALEFFO-31 is a recently developed disease-specific instrument derived from QUALEFFO-41 and intended to have improved efficacy and response rates. We aimed to validate QUALEFFO-31 in Chinese and examine the use of QUALEFFO-31 in clinical practice. This questionnaire was translated into Chinese and applied to 118 case-control pairs aged between 50 and 85 years with prevalent osteoporotic vertebral fractures to evaluate its validity, repeatability, and discriminatory ability. It was also used to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) of 69 case-control trios with prevalent clinical and morphometric fractures. The QOL of all subjects was concurrently assessed using SF-36 for comparison. QUALEFFO-31 had good internal consistency with adequate convergent and discriminatory validity. The median test-retest repeatability ranged from 0.65-0.85. In general, there were good correlations between QUALEFFO-31 and SF-36. ROC curve analysis revealed that QUALEFFO-31 had significant ability to discriminate between clinical fracture subjects versus morphometric fracture subjects and controls. QUALEFFO-31 also demonstrated higher discriminatory capacity for pain. Subjects with clinical vertebral fractures (CVFs) had a significant reduction in QOL compared with other subjects. The QUALEFFO-31 is a useful tool for assessing QOL in Chinese. It was well accepted and significantly predictive of subjects with CVFs. © 2010 Clinical Rheumatology. | ||||||
| ISSN | 0770-3198 2011 Impact Factor: 1.996 2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.143 | ||||||
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10067-010-1495-2 | ||||||
| ISI Accession Number ID | WOS:000280241100003
Funding Information: The authors wish to thank the nursing and technical staff of the Osteoporosis Centre, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital for their help in carrying out this project. This study was supported by the Bone Health Fund of the Hong Kong University Foundation and Osteoporosis Research Fund of the University of Hong Kong. | ||||||
| PubMed Central ID | PMC2908749 | ||||||
| References | References in Scopus |
| dc.contributor.author | Lai, BMH | ||||||
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| dc.contributor.author | Tsang, SWY | ||||||
| dc.contributor.author | Lam, CLK | ||||||
| dc.contributor.author | Kung, AWC | ||||||
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-02-21T05:42:38Z | ||||||
| dc.date.available | 2012-02-21T05:42:38Z | ||||||
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | ||||||
| dc.description.abstract | QUALEFFO-31 is a recently developed disease-specific instrument derived from QUALEFFO-41 and intended to have improved efficacy and response rates. We aimed to validate QUALEFFO-31 in Chinese and examine the use of QUALEFFO-31 in clinical practice. This questionnaire was translated into Chinese and applied to 118 case-control pairs aged between 50 and 85 years with prevalent osteoporotic vertebral fractures to evaluate its validity, repeatability, and discriminatory ability. It was also used to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) of 69 case-control trios with prevalent clinical and morphometric fractures. The QOL of all subjects was concurrently assessed using SF-36 for comparison. QUALEFFO-31 had good internal consistency with adequate convergent and discriminatory validity. The median test-retest repeatability ranged from 0.65-0.85. In general, there were good correlations between QUALEFFO-31 and SF-36. ROC curve analysis revealed that QUALEFFO-31 had significant ability to discriminate between clinical fracture subjects versus morphometric fracture subjects and controls. QUALEFFO-31 also demonstrated higher discriminatory capacity for pain. Subjects with clinical vertebral fractures (CVFs) had a significant reduction in QOL compared with other subjects. The QUALEFFO-31 is a useful tool for assessing QOL in Chinese. It was well accepted and significantly predictive of subjects with CVFs. © 2010 Clinical Rheumatology. | ||||||
| dc.description.nature | published_or_final_version | ||||||
| dc.description.other | Springer Open Choice, 21 Feb 2012 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.citation | Clinical Rheumatology, 2010, v. 29 n. 9, p. 965-972 [How to Cite?] DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10067-010-1495-2 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.citeulike | 7420244 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10067-010-1495-2 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.eissn | 1434-9949 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.epage | 972 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.hkuros | 175025 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000280241100003
Funding Information: The authors wish to thank the nursing and technical staff of the Osteoporosis Centre, Department of Medicine, Queen Mary Hospital for their help in carrying out this project. This study was supported by the Bone Health Fund of the Hong Kong University Foundation and Osteoporosis Research Fund of the University of Hong Kong. | ||||||
| dc.identifier.issn | 0770-3198 2011 Impact Factor: 1.996 2011 SCImago Journal Rankings: 0.143 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.issue | 9 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.openurl | | ||||||
| dc.identifier.pmcid | PMC2908749 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.pmid | 20577891 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-77956188206 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.spage | 965 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/144965 | ||||||
| dc.identifier.volume | 29 | ||||||
| dc.language | Eng | ||||||
| dc.publisher | Springer-Verlag London Ltd. The Journal's web site is located at http://link.springer.de/link/service/journals/10067/ | ||||||
| dc.publisher.place | United Kingdom | ||||||
| dc.relation.ispartof | Clinical Rheumatology | ||||||
| dc.relation.references | References in Scopus | ||||||
| dc.rights | The Author(s) | ||||||
| dc.rights | Creative Commons: Attribution 3.0 Hong Kong License | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Health Surveys | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Language | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Osteoporosis - complications - physiopathology - psychology | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Quality of Life - psychology | ||||||
| dc.subject.mesh | Questionnaires | ||||||
| dc.subject | Chinese | ||||||
| dc.subject | Construct validation | ||||||
| dc.subject | Health-related quality of life | ||||||
| dc.subject | Morphometric fracture | ||||||
| dc.subject | Osteoporosis | ||||||
| dc.subject | QUALEFFO-31 | ||||||
| dc.title | Validation of the quality of life questionnaire of the European foundation for osteoporosis (QUALEFFO-31) in Chinese | ||||||
| dc.type | Article |
Author Affiliations
- The University of Hong Kong