PMID- 8560303
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19960227
LR  - 20220409
IS  - 0277-9536 (Print)
IS  - 0277-9536 (Linking)
VI  - 41
IP  - 10
DP  - 1995 Nov
TI  - German translation and psychometric testing of the SF-36 Health Survey: 
      preliminary results from the IQOLA Project. International Quality of Life 
      Assessment.
PG  - 1359-66
AB  - International translation and psychometric testing of generic health outcome 
      measures is increasingly in demand. Following the methodology developed by the 
      International Quality of Life Assessment group (IQOLA) we report the German work 
      with the SF-36 Health Survey. The form was translated using a forward-backward 
      method with accompanying translation quality ratings and pilot tested in terms of 
      translation clarity and applicability. Psychometric evaluation included 
      Thurstone's test of ordinality and equidistance of response choices in 48 
      subjects as well as testing of reliability, validity, responsiveness and 
      discriminative power of the form in crossectional studies of two samples of 
      healthy persons and longitudinal studies of two samples of pain patients 
      totalling 940 respondents. Quality ratings of translations were favorable, 
      suggesting a high quality of both forward and backward translations. In the pilot 
      study, the form was well understood and easily administered, suggesting high 
      clarity and applicability. Thurstone's test revealed ordinality (in over 90% of 
      the cases) and rough equidistance of response choices also as compared to the 
      American original. On item and scale level, missing data were low and descriptive 
      statistics indicated acceptable distribution characteristics. In all samples 
      studied, discriminative item validity was high (over 90% scaling successes) and 
      Cronbach's alpha reliabilities were above the 0.70 criterion with exception of 
      one scale. Furthermore convergent validity, responsiveness to treatment and 
      discriminative power in distinguishing between healthy and ill respondents was 
      present. The preliminary results suggest that the SF-36 Health Survey in its 
      German form may be a valuable tool in epidemiological and clinical studies. 
      However further work as concerns responsiveness and population based norms is 
      necessary.
FAU - Bullinger, M
AU  - Bullinger M
AD  - Institute for Medical Psychology, University of Munich, Germany.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - England
TA  - Soc Sci Med
JT  - Social science & medicine (1982)
JID - 8303205
SB  - IM
MH  - Back Pain
MH  - Chronic Disease
MH  - *Cross-Cultural Comparison
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - Female
MH  - Germany
MH  - *Health Status
MH  - *Health Surveys
MH  - Humans
MH  - Longitudinal Studies
MH  - Male
MH  - Migraine Disorders
MH  - Outcome Assessment, Health Care
MH  - Pilot Projects
MH  - *Psychometrics
MH  - Quality of Life
MH  - Reproducibility of Results
MH  - Self-Assessment
MH  - *Surveys and Questionnaires
MH  - *Translations
MH  - United States
EDAT- 1995/11/01 00:00
MHDA- 1995/11/01 00:01
CRDT- 1995/11/01 00:00
PHST- 1995/11/01 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1995/11/01 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1995/11/01 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 027795369500115N [pii]
AID - 10.1016/0277-9536(95)00115-n [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Soc Sci Med. 1995 Nov;41(10):1359-66. doi: 10.1016/0277-9536(95)00115-n.