tailieunhanh - báo cáo hóa học: " Cross-diagnostic validity of the Nottingham health profile index of distress (NHPD)"

Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Cross-diagnostic validity of the Nottingham health profile index of distress (NHPD) | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Open Access Cross-diagnostic validity of the Nottingham health profile index of distress NHPD Christine Wann-Hansson1 Rosemarie Klevsgârd2 and Peter Hagell 2 3 Address faculty of Health and Society Malmo University SE-205 06 Malmo Sweden 2Department of Health Sciences Lund University PO Box 157 SE-221 00 Lund Sweden and 3Department of Neurology Lund University Hospital SE-221 85 Lund Sweden Email Christine Wann-Hansson - Rosemarie Klevsgârd - Peter Hagell - Corresponding author Published 2 July 2008 Received 5 November 2007 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008 6 47 doi 1477-7525-6-47 Accepted 2 July 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 47 2008 Wann-Hansson et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background The Nottingham Health Profile index of Distress NHPD has been proposed as a generic undimensional 24-item measure of illness-related distress that is embedded in the Nottingham Health Profile NHP . Data indicate that the NHPD may have psychometric advantages to the 6-dimensional NHP profile scores. Detailed psychometric evaluations are however lacking. Furthermore to support the validity of the generic property of outcome measures evidence that scores can be interpreted in the same manner in different diagnostic groups are needed. It is currently unknown if NHPD scores have the same meaning across patient populations. This study evaluated the measurement properties and cross-diagnostic validity of the NHPD as a survey instrument among people with Parkinson s disease PD and peripheral arterial disease PAD . Methods Data from .