5-INDEX NATIONAL HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE SURVEY

为了满足国家对健康相关生活质量(HRQOL)通用概要测量的需求，该项目将为美国35-89岁的社区人口中广泛使用的5种HRQOL工具建立美国基准。HRQOL的标准化测量对于评估2010年健康人目标的进展情况、评估美国人口的健康差距，以及了解和评估老年人的健康变化以及保健干预对年龄相关疾病的有效性将是重要的。该项目将同时使用五种标准测量工具，即医疗结果研究SF-36v2，EuroQol EQ-SD，幸福感质量量表(QWB-SA)，健康实用指数(HUI2和HUI3)，以及健康和活动限制指数(HALex)，以评估2800名年龄在35-89岁的全国随机数字拨号电话样本的HRQOL 英语或西班牙语可供选择。超过1000名非洲裔美国人的样本将被包括在内。其他 将收集有关常见慢性健康状况、心理健康以及社会经济和人口因素的信息。该调查的目标是(1)为黑人和所有人口的每个HRQOL测量得出按年龄和性别划分的全国平均值；(2)建立交叉走动方程以交叉校准这5个测量；(3)更好地了解这些测量与潜在的健康、HRQOL和心理健康的关系；以及(4)探索测量的HRQOL与种族、社会经济和人口因素的差异的关系。在该项目结束前，将通过互联网向其他研究人员提供公共使用的数据集。

In response to national needs for generic summary measures of health-related quality of life (HRQOL), this project will establish US benchmarks for 5 widely used HRQOL instruments in the community-living US population aged 35-89y. Standardized measures of HRQOL will be important to assessing progress on Health People 2010 goals, assessing health disparities in the US population, and to understand and evaluate changes in health in older adults and effectiveness of healthcare interventions in age-related disease. This project will simultaneously use five standard measurement instruments, the Medical Outcomes Study SF-36v2, the EuroQol EQ-SD, the Quality of Well-being scale (QWB-SA), the Health Utilities Indexes (HUI2 and HUI3), and the Health and Activities Limitations Index (HALex), to assess the HRQOL of a national random-digit dialed telephone sample of 2800 non-institutionalized adults ages 35-89y, interviewed at their choice in English or Spanish. An over-sample of 1000 African Americans will be included. Other information about common chronic health conditions, psychological well-being, and socioeconomic and demographic factors will be collected. The goals of the survey are (1) to produce national means by age and gender for Blacks and for the entire population on each HRQOL measure; (2) to develop "cross-walk" equations to cross-calibrate the 5 measures; (3) to better understand the relationships of these measures to underlying health, HRQOL, and psychological well-being; and (4)to explore relationship of measured HRQOL to differences in race, and socioeconomic and demographic factors. A public use data set will be made available via the internet for other researchers by the end of this project.