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Fenugreek in Management of Female-Specific Health Conditions
Published in Dilip Ghosh, Prasad Thakurdesai, Fenugreek, 2022
The Greene Climacteric Scale (GCS) provides a brief measure of menopause symptoms on 21 items, each with 0 to 3 score on main areas of post-menopausal symptoms (Greene 1998). The 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) is a set of generic, coherent, and easily administered quality-of-life measures. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study reported the 90-days of oral supplementation novel extract of fenugreek husk (FenuSMART™), at 1000 mg/day of showed increase in plasma estradiol (120%) and quality of life and improvements in various PMS discomforts (GCS and SF-36) (Shamshad Begum et al. 2016).
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Published in Abhaya Gupta, Jeremy Playfer, Bim Bhowmick, Measurement Scales Used in Elderly Care, 2017
Abhaya Gupta, Jeremy Playfer, Bim Bhowmick
The SF-36 is increasingly being used to measure health-related quality of life. It can measure positive as well as negative health. The scale has been used in both young2 and elderly people.3 It performs well in community surveys of older people,4 and population norms in many countries have been published.1 Population norms for the UK have been produced from postal surveys.5
Long-term outcomes in newborn surgery
Published in Prem Puri, Newborn Surgery, 2017
Christian Tomuschat, Keith T. Oldham, Casey M. Calkins
Perhaps the most commonly used outcome assessment tool in contemporary health services research is the SF-36® (“short-form 36”).17 The Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ) is a by-product of the SF-36® and a more appropriate choice for use in children and adolescents. A product of the RAND-sponsored Medical Outcomes Study (MOS), the SF-36® is a 36-item general health status assessment questionnaire. It has nine separate scales, though recent work has identified two dimensions that underlie the nine subscales: physical and mental health. There are substantial reliability and validity data for the SF-36® in a wide variety of adult populations.18 However, the 28- and 50-item CHQ short forms (which cover the same 12 concepts as the full-length CHQ) are more efficient measures than the SF-36® and are valid for use in children aged 5–18 years.19 In the United States, normative values and benchmarks for the parent-reported versions of the CHQ are available for some specific health conditions. The youth self-report version is 87 items and was developed for use in individuals aged 10 years and older. Authorized translations and Internet-administered versions are also available.20
Minimal and robust clinically important difference of three fatigue measures in chronic stroke survivors
Published in Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation, 2023
Moslem Cheraghifard, Nazanin Sarlak, Ghorban Taghizadeh, Akram Azad, Soheila Fallah, Malahat Akbarfahimi
SF-36 is a quality of life measure that includes various aspects of physical and mental functioning. SF-36 consists of eight domains including general health, physical function, role limitation-physical, pain, role-limitation-emotional, social functioning, mental health, and vitality. The score of each domain ranges from 0 to 100 and a higher score indicates a higher quality of life.24 Sf-36 has acceptable test–retest (ICC = 0.89) and inter-rater (ICC = 0.89) reliability in stroke survivors. The SF-36-VT includes four items and assesses fatigue and energy status. It also showed adequate feasibility to use, high inter-rater reliability (ICC = 0.92), and acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach’s α = 0.78) in stroke survivors.9 Each item is scored on a 5-point Likert scale from “none of all time” to “all of the time.”25 SF-36 score ≤45 reflects important clinical fatigue.26 This questionnaire is one of the most widely used tests to assess fatigue in stroke survivors.27
Evaluation of the Relation between Compliance with Mediterranean Diet and Quality of Life of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
Published in Nutrition and Cancer, 2023
Meltem Kudret, Fatma Nişancı Kılınç, Sevilay Karahan
To determine the quality of life scores, the SF-36 quality of life scale, which was developed by Ware et al. (12), assessing physical and mental health was used. This form has a total of 36 items, and consists of eight sub-headings; physical indicators; physical function, physical role, pain, general health; mental indicators; vitality, social function, mental role, and mental health (12). The scoring of the SF-36 quality of life scale varies between 0 and 100, and as a result of scoring, a high score shows a better health level, while low score points indicate disrupted health. The scores of the questions containing SF-36 quality of life scales were collected, and the “Physical and Mental Indicators” were obtained and interpreted. The data obtained and the possible relations between MEDAS and SF-36 were also examined. The study was approved by the Scientific Research and Publications Ethics Board of Eastern Mediterranean University on 07/03/2016 with the number 2016/21-05.
The Influence of Alexithymia on Alcohol Craving, Health-Related Quality of Life and Gender in Alcohol-Dependent Outpatients
Published in Journal of Psychoactive Drugs, 2020
Fred Arne Thorberg, Penelope Hasking, Ya-Ling Huang, Michael Lyvers, Ross McD. Young, Jason P. Connor, Edythe D. London, Gerald F. X. Feeney
This 36-item self-report measure (Ware and Sherbourne 1992) assesses subjective QoL-health status across two higher order dimensions, physical role functioning and emotional role functioning, as well as eight domains: (i) physical functioning, (ii) role-physical, (iii) bodily pain, (iv) general health, (v) vitality, (vi) social functioning, (vii) role-emotional, and (viii) mental health. Raw scores are usually transformed to standard scores (0–100). Higher scores indicate better functioning and health related QoL (Ware and Sherbourne 1992). The SF-36 has acceptable validity and reliability (Sullivan, Karlsson, and Ware 1995; Taylor, Dal Grande, and Parsons 1997; Ware and Sherbourne 1992). The SF-36 yielded sound internal consistency with a Cronbach alpha coefficients of 0.87 for physical role functioning and 0.83 emotional role functioning.