Short health scale: a valid, reliable, and responsive measure of health-related quality of life in children with inflammatory bowel disease

Inflammatory Bowel Diseases
Slaven AbdovicSanja Kolacek

Abstract

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) presents a growing medical and epidemiological problem. In respect to patients, health-related quality of life (HRQOL) emerged as informative means to evaluate the impact of disease burden on health. The Short Health Scale (SHS), a disease-specific HRQOL instrument with only 4 questions (symptoms, functioning, worry, and general well-being), was demonstrated as valid, reliable, and responsive in adults. Aim of this study was to assess its psychometric properties in children with IBD. In a multicentric prospective study, HRQOL was assessed in 104 children with IBD by generic (PedsQL) and disease-specific questionnaires (IMPACT-III (HR) and SHS), which were cross-culturally adapted for Croatian. Forty-one patients completed the questionnaires at the second visit 6 to 12 months later. Of them, 27 patients changed from remission to active disease or vice versa and were included in responsiveness to change analysis. Patients in remission had significantly better scores for symptoms (P = 0.022) and functioning (P = 0.003) than those with active disease. Each of the 4 SHS questions was strongly correlated with the corresponding dimensions of PedsQL and IMPACT-III (HR) questionnaires (rs = 0.50-0.72, P ...Continue Reading

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