Guideline 57 - Supporting Material: SF-36

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SF-36

Measure of general health status. Widely tested in a range of conditions and settings. Copyrighted. Distributed by the MOS Trust, who can also provide further information about its use and scoring, including manuals. A fee is payable.

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What is the SF-36®?
This comprehensive short-form with only 36 questions yields an 8-scale health profile as well as summary measures of health-related quality of life. As documented in more than 2000 publications, the SF-36® has proven useful in monitoring general and specific populations, comparing the burden of different diseases, differentiating the health benefits produced by different treatments, and in screening individual patients.

What is the SF-36v2™?
This manual was prepared to be a companion to existing manuals about the SF-36® Health Survey. This manual documents the improvements in SF-36®, Version 2. This manual also presents up-to-date norms for SF-36® scales and summary measures as well as citations for nearly 1,500 publications.

What is the SF-12®?
An even shorter - 1-page, 2-minute - survey form has been shown to yield summary physical and mental health outcome scores that are interchangeable with those from the SF-36® in both general and specific populations. This short-form - the SF-12® - which was published in early 1995 is already one of the most widely used surveys.

What is the SF-8™?
The SF-8™ Health Survey represents a major advance in the application of SF technology for purposes of achieving both brevity and comprehensiveness in population health surveys. It has only eight questionnaire items. By relying on a single item to measure each of the eight domains of health in the SF-36® Health Survey, the SF-8™ represents the ultimate phase in the evolution of SF assessments - single-item scales.

SF-36® Norm Based Scoring (NBS)
The new Norm-based scoring (NBS) for the SF-12® and SF-36® is a recalibration of the original SF-36® and makes the profiles easier to interpret and results directly comparable with the widely used summary measures.

SF-36® is a registered trademark of the Medical Outcomes Trust
Website: http://www.outcomes-trust.org/

SF-36.com website hosted by QualityMetric Incorporated
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Assessment and evaluation of the SF36 Version II
Crispin Jenkinson, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Sophie Petersen (British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group) Health Services Research Unit, Oxford
Funded by the NHS Executive Anglia and Oxford R&D Programme.
The SF-36 has become one of the most widely used generic measures of subjective health status. However, despite the widespread use of the measure criticism has been forthcoming concerning the layout and wording of some of the items. Consequently, the developers have produced a modified instrument, the SF-36 Mark 2.0 (SF-36II), which is a direct descendent of the SF-36 Developmental Form and the SF-36 Mark 1 Standard Form. The SFII was included in the Third Oxford Health and Lifestyles Survey (OHLSIII). This study introduces the UK SF36II and assesses the internal consistency reliability and construct validity of the measure, and the physical and mental health summary scores. A paper is in press with the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Further information is available from crispin.jenkinson@dphpc.ox.ac.uk.

This research is accessed via- http://www.hsru.ox.ac.uk/sf36v2.htm

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