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| Title |
The Quality of Life Scale (QOLS): Reliability, Validity, and Utilization
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, October 2003
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| DOI | 10.1186/1477-7525-1-60 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Carol S Burckhardt, Kathryn L Anderson |
| Abstract |
The Quality of Life Scale (QOLS), created originally by American psychologist John Flanagan in the 1970's, has been adapted for use in chronic illness groups. This paper reviews the development and psychometric testing of the QOLS. A descriptive review of the published literature was undertaken and findings summarized in the frequently asked questions format. Reliability, content and construct validity testing has been performed on the QOLS and a number of translations have been made. The QOLS has low to moderate correlations with physical health status and disease measures. However, content validity analysis indicates that the instrument measures domains that diverse patient groups with chronic illness define as quality of life. The QOLS is a valid instrument for measuring quality of life across patient groups and cultures and is conceptually distinct from health status or other causal indicators of quality of life. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 40% |
| Finland | 1 | 10% |
| Unknown | 5 | 50% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 9 | 90% |
| Scientists | 1 | 10% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 1,172 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | <1% |
| Brazil | 5 | <1% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | <1% |
| Bangladesh | 2 | <1% |
| Malaysia | 2 | <1% |
| Nigeria | 2 | <1% |
| Portugal | 2 | <1% |
| Australia | 2 | <1% |
| Spain | 2 | <1% |
| Other | 13 | 1% |
| Unknown | 1132 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 179 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 164 | 14% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 139 | 12% |
| Researcher | 122 | 10% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 86 | 7% |
| Other | 213 | 18% |
| Unknown | 269 | 23% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 258 | 22% |
| Psychology | 174 | 15% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 115 | 10% |
| Social Sciences | 74 | 6% |
| Neuroscience | 33 | 3% |
| Other | 216 | 18% |
| Unknown | 302 | 26% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 27. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 14 February 2024.
All research outputs
#1,447,441
of 25,483,400 outputs
Outputs from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
#67
of 2,297 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,499
of 56,440 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
#2
of 14 outputs
Altmetric has tracked 25,483,400 research outputs across all sources so far. Compared to these this one has done particularly well and is in the 94th percentile: it's in the top 10% of all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.
So far Altmetric has tracked 2,297 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a little more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 6.5. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 97% of its peers.
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