The Life Functioning Questionnaire (LFQ): a brief, gender-neutral scale assessing functional outcome

被引:60
作者
Altshuler, L
Mintz, J
Leight, K
机构
[1] Univ Calif Los Angeles, Dept Psychiat & Biobehav Sci, Mood Disorders Res Program, Los Angeles, CA 90095 USA
[2] Vet Adm Med Ctr, W Los Angeles Healthcare Ctr, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare Syst, Dept Psychiat, Los Angeles, CA 90073 USA
关键词
role function; functional impairment; bipolar disorder; assessment; quality of life;
D O I
10.1016/S0165-1781(02)00180-4
中图分类号
R749 [精神病学];
学科分类号
100205 ;
摘要
The Life Functioning Questionnaire (LFQ) is a 5-min, 14-item, gender-neutral self-report questionnaire designed to assess role function over the preceding month in four domains: workplace, duties at home, leisure time with family and leisure time with friends. To validate the LFQ for use as an instrument assessing functional outcome in patients with a mood disorder, the LFQ was administered to three different samples of patients (N=87). Fifty-nine concurrently completed the self-report version of the Social Adjustment Scale (SAS-SR) and 32 concurrently had a Clinical Global Impression Scale for Bipolar Disorder (CGI-BP) assessment. The LFQ proved to have high internal consistency reliability, high test-retest reliability, excellent concurrent validity with the SAS-SR, and high validity as a measurement of severity of illness when compared with the CGI-BP The LFQ provides a reliable, consistent and valid assessment of function at work and home in both male and female patients with a mood disorder. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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