Listening to respondents: a qualitative assessment of the Short-Form 36 Health Status Questionnaire
Listening to respondents: a qualitative assessment of the Short-Form 36 Health Status Questionnaire
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DOI：
10.1016/s0277-9536(01)00003-x
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发表时间：
2002-01-01
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5.4
通讯作者：
Mallinson, S
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作者：
Mallinson, S
标准化的健康状况调查表被广泛用于获得对健康的主观评价。然而，很少有研究调查他们产生的数据的意义。统计测试将突出调查问卷的结构和措辞方面的一些问题，但它们不能说明受访者在选择回答时解释问题或其预期意义的方式。社会学和心理学等学科正在使用各种定性技术来检验调查工具的语言和调查的认知基础。本文概述了其中的一些方法，并报告了英国一项定性研究的结果，该研究使用了一份广泛使用的问卷- 36健康状况问卷。该研究的结果清楚地表明，在制定和测试用于收集对健康的主观评价的调查时纳入深入的定性验证技术的价值。2001爱思唯尔科学有限公司版权所有。
Standardised health status questionnaires are widely used to obtain subjective assessments of health. However, little research has investigated the meaning of the data they produce. Statistical tests will highlight some problems with the structure and wording of a questionnaire but they cannot shed any light on the way in which respondents interpret questions or their intended meaning when they select a response. Various qualitative techniques are being used within disciplines such as sociology and psychology to test both the language of survey instruments and the cognitive bases of surveys. This paper outlines some of these methods and reports findings from a qualitative research study in the UK with a widely used questionnaire- the Short-Form 36 Health Status Questionnaire. The value of including in-depth, qualitative validation techniques in the development and testing of surveys used to collect subjective assessments of health is clearly demonstrated by the findings of the study. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.