Abstract
The WHOQOL group have developed an instrument to evaluate Quality of Life, the WHOQOL-100, available in 20 different languages (WHOQOL Group, 1998). The field trial of the portuguese version of the instrument is presented. Two hundred and fifty patients from four main medical areas (Psychiatry, Clinical, Surgery and Ginecology) of the Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre and 50 controls were evaluated with the Portuguese version of the WHO Quality of Life Instrument (WHOQOL-100), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and Beck Hopelessness Scale (BHS) in Porto Alegre, south Brazil. The instrument showed a good psychometric performance with good internal consistency, discriminant validity, criterion validity, concurrent validity and reliability. The authors conclude that the intrument is ready for use in Brazil, it being important to evaluate its performance in other regions and with different samples.
Highlights
Recentemente tem-se buscado desenvolver instrumentos que avaliem bem-estar e qualidade de vida (Gill e Feinstein5, 1993; Guyatt et al.6, 1993)
Observa-se que os pacientes da psiquiatria têm uma tendência a ter os piores escores independente dos domínios, com exceção do domínio 3 em que os pacientes da clínica tem escores inferiores
A Tabela 6 apresenta uma regressão linear múltipla dos domínios em relação à faceta que avalia a qualidade de vida geral
Summary
A., Sérgio Louzada, Martha Xavier, Eduardo Chachamovich**, Guilherme Vieira**, Lyssandra Santos**, Vanessa Pinzon** Aplicação da versão em português do instrumento de avaliação de qualidade de vida da Organização Mundial da Saúde (WHOQOL-100)* Rev. Saúde Pública, 33 [2]: 198-205, 1999 www.fsp.usp.br/~rsp. Aplicação da versão em português do instrumento de avaliação de qualidade de vida da Organização Mundial da Saúde (WHOQOL-100)* Application of the portuguese version of the instrument for the assessment of the quality of life of the World Health Organization (WHOQOL-100). Aplicação da versão em português do WHOQOL-100 Fleck MPA et al
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