Quality of Life Flashcards
Definition of Quality of life
Person’s sense of well-being, comfort, happiness, and satisfaction with specific areas of functioning (work, social relationships, finances)
Self-Reports
get to a person’s perspective, not just their ability to do a skill. Person’s view is affected by mood, outlook, and pain
Always make sure test is valid for situation.
Need more than one scale to have an accurate depiction of patient
Sickness Impact Profile (SIP)
Assess outcome of healthcare services. Spanish version available. Self Report. Score: 0-100 136 items, takes 20-30min Broad used with many different conditions
Functional Independence Measure (FIM)
measures what patient usually does, not what they should do.
only looks at ADL skills (locomotion, transfers) in one setting (at home, in hospital, not different kinds of environments) Documents change in skill over time.
Functional Status Measure, multidimensional
Should be trained for this
Scoring:
1=total assist or not testable (less than 25%)
2= max assist; 25%
3= mod assist; 50%
4= min assist; 75%
5= supervision (setup) 100%
6= mod independence (device)
7= complete independence (timely, safe)
MOS SF-36
High Internal consistency 4wk and 1wk version PCS and MCS measured greater than 50 is above average drawback: not a lot of variety in population norms, see a lot of discrepancy in older patients
