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Responsiveness to change: an aspect of validity, not a separate dimension.

Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation ·Vol. 1 ·No. 1 ·1992-02-00 ·Pages 73-5

Hays RD, Hadorn D

Abstract

Assessment of health-related quality of life is accelerating in naturalistic observational studies, clinical trials, and clinical practice. Some researchers have argued that the ability of a quality of life instrument to detect clinically important changes over time, "responsiveness," is a distinct psychometric property from the measure's reliability and validity. We discuss the important implications of this argument and counter that responsiveness is actually one indication of a measure's validity.

MeSH Terms
Homeless Persons/psychology Humans Life Change Events Neoplasms/psychology,therapy Psychometrics Quality of Life Reproducibility of Results Research Design Surveys and Questionnaires/standards Time Factors
Authors & Affiliations
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Hays R D
RAND, Social Policy Department, Santa Monica, CA 90407-2138.
Hadorn D
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Article Info
Journal
Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation
Abbr.
Qual Life Res
ISSN
0962-9343
DOI
10.1007/BF00435438
Published
1992-02-00
Pages
73-5
Language
English
Region
Netherlands
NLM ID
9210257
Subset
IM
External Links
PubMed source DOI: 10.1007/BF00435438 View journal details
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