Development of a revised version of the Women's Health Questionnaire
Development of a revised version of the Women's Health Questionnaire
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DOI：
10.1080/13697130500487372
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发表时间：
2006-02-01
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2.8
通讯作者：
Hunter, MS
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作者：
Girod, I;de la Loge, C;Hunter, MS
目标 女性健康问卷 (WHQ) 包括 36 个项目，评估中年女性身体和情感经历的九个领域。当前研究的主要目的是检查跨语言版本的 WHQ 的心理测量特性，因为跨国研究中对可靠的健康相关生活质量 (HRQL) 测量的需求不断增加。方法在本文中，我们检查了英国样本中问卷的假设结构，以开发和验证用于多中心、国际研究的修订模型。结果和结论对缺失数据的内容分析和评估导致排除“月经症状”和“性行为”领域，保留这些作为核心调查问卷的可选模块。此外，第 13 项被排除，因为它不调查与其他领域相同的概念，并且删除 5 个附加项目似乎改善了调查问卷的因素结构。修订后的 WHQ 包括 23 个项目，调查 6 个领域。 23 项 WHQ 的横截面心理测量特性良好，并且优于 36 项版本。使用跨国数据对 23 项 WHQ 进行了评估，以评估语言改编版本的跨文化等效性。此外，还需要记录其再现性和响应性。
Objectives The Women's Health Questionnaire (WHQ) includes 36 items assessing nine domains of physical and emotional experiences of mid-aged women. The primary aim of the current research was to examine the psychometric properties of the WHQ across linguistic versions in view of the increased need for reliable health-related quality of life (HRQL) measures in multinational studies.Methods In this paper, we examine the hypothesized structure of the questionnaire in a UK sample, to develop and verify a revised model to be used in multicenter, international studies.Results and conclusions Content analysis and evaluation of missing data led to exclusion of 'Menstrual symptoms' and 'Sexual behavior' domains, retaining these as optional modules of the core questionnaire. Additionally, item 13 was excluded because it does not investigate the same concepts as other domains and the deletion of five additional items appeared to improve the questionnaire's factor structure.The revised WHQ comprises 23 items, investigating six domains. The cross-sectional psychometric properties of the 23-item WHQ were good and better than those of the 36-item version. The 23-item WHQ was assessed with multinational data, to evaluate cross-cultural equivalence of linguistically adapted versions. In addition, its reproducibility and responsiveness need to be documented.