Validation of the dutch version of the CDC core healthy days measures in a community sample

An important disadvantage of most indicators of health related quality of life used in public health surveillance is their length. In this study the authors investigated the reliability and validity of a short indicator of health related quality of life, the Dutch version of the four item 'CDC Core Healthy Days Measures' (CDC HRQOL-4). The reliability was evaluated by calculating Cronbach's alpha of the CDC HRQOL-4. The concurrent validity was tested by comparing the CDC HRQOL-4 with three other indicators of health related quality of life, the SF-36, the WHOQoL-BREF and the GHQ-12. The constr... Mehr ...