INTERVIEWER VERSUS SELF-ADMINISTERED QUESTIONNAIRES IN DEVELOPING A DISEASE-SPECIFIC, HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY-OF-LIFE INSTRUMENT FOR ASTHMA

被引:104
作者
COOK, DJ [1 ]
GUYATT, GH [1 ]
JUNIPER, E [1 ]
GRIFFITH, L [1 ]
MCILROY, W [1 ]
WILLAN, A [1 ]
JAESCHKE, R [1 ]
EPSTEIN, R [1 ]
机构
[1] MCMASTER UNIV,MED CTR,DEPT CLIN EPIDEMIOL & BIOSTAT,HAMILTON L8S 4L8,ONTARIO,CANADA
关键词
QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE ADMINISTRATION; HEALTH STATUS MEASUREMENT;
D O I
10.1016/0895-4356(93)90125-K
中图分类号
R19 [保健组织与事业(卫生事业管理)];
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摘要
We wished to determine the extent to which respondents provided the same answers to a health-related quality of life (HRQL) questionnaire in self-and interviewer-administered forms. One hundred and fifty patients with asthma who were symptomatic or required treatment at least once a week, and had airway hyperresponsiveness to methacholine aerosol (PC20 < 8.0 mg/ml) participated. Patients completed a 152-item HRQL questionnaire in both interviewer and self-administered forms, separated by a 2-week interval, the order determined by random allocation. The percentage of items endorsed by the self-administered approach was significantly higher than that of the interviewer-administered approach overall (46.9 vs 35.8%) (p < 0.0001). The difference was consistent across all six domains; the absolute difference in the proportion of items endorsed varied from 8.9 to 12.3%. The intraclass correlations for the proportion of subjects endorsing an item was 0.84. Self- and interviewer-adminstered questionnaires yield very similar results in discriminating between subjects, but the self-administered version shows systematically greater HRQL impairment.
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