Creation and Initial Validation of a Picture-Based Version of the Limitations of Activity Domain of the SF-36.

摘要: Those with limited language comprehension or literacy face problems completing written questionnaires evaluating their health physical status on which treatment plans are based. This brief report describes how a picture-based version of the 10 items in limitations activities section short form 36 survey questionnaire (SF-36) was developed iteratively and then piloted. Study participants were 101 community-living volunteers (58 female 43 male aged 18-93 yrs) educated to postsecondary level (52), high school grades 10-12 (44), grade 9 less (5). They first completed SF-36 LoA described verbally writing what they understood each picture mean English text domain for comparison assessment. Additional feedback suggested where pictures could be altered increase information capture. Subjects rated as 26.7% excellent, 25.7% very good, 29.8% 10.9% fair, 6.9% poor. Analysis showed strong correlation between text-based questions visual score-VSF-36 LoA-(intraclass coefficient = 0.98) question correlating highest (intraclass 0.90) 2 lowest 0.82). The VSF-36 is SF-36; good global need warrants further development aid those comprehension.