Research tools for evaluating the Health Related Quality of Life
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Keywords

questionnaires
health related quality of life

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Research tools for evaluating the Health Related Quality of Life. (2013). Modern Nursing and Public Health, 2(1), 12-14. https://journals.ieditore.com/index.php/MNHC/article/view/930

Abstract

The concept of quality of life in the conditioned state of health, HRQoL was introduced in 1990 by Schipper etal. as a multidimensional concept that is closely related to the holistic approach to human health with the definition formulated by the WHO as saying about health welfare full physical, mental and social. Since the 90 observed a continuous development of research on the quality of life of people affected by the disease. Among the methods used for testing and analyzing the quality of life includes qualitative and quantitative methods. In the study its is possible to use the general and/or specific questionnaires. The paper discusses the most commonly used questionnaires to survey the halth related quality of life.
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