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The effects of illness on quality of life: findings from a survey of households in Great Britain

The effects of illness on quality of life: findings from a survey of households in Great Britain
The effects of illness on quality of life: findings from a survey of households in Great Britain
Study objective - To obtain national population norms on pertinent domains of quality of Life, and the relative importance of these domains to people with reported longstanding illness.
Design and setting - The vehicle for the study was the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys omnibus survey in Great Britain. The sampling frame was the British postcode address file of "small users", stratified by region and socioeconomic factors. This file includes all private household addresses. The postal sectors are selected with probability proportional to size. Within each sector 30 addresses are selected randomly with an target size of 2000 adults.
Participants - The total number of adults interviewed was 2033 (one per sampled household), resulting in 2031 usable questionnaires, and representing a response rate of 77%.
Main results - Of those who reported a longstanding illness, the most common, freely mentioned, first most important effects of the longstanding illness on their lives were (in order of frequency) ability to get out and about/stand/walk/go out shopping, being able to work/find a job, and effects on social life/leisure activities. Analysis of the areas of life affected by longstanding illness, showed considerable variation in relation to the condition. For example, respondents with mental health disorders (mainly depression) were most likely to report as the first most important effect the availability of work/ability to work, followed by social life/leisure activities; respondents with digestive and endocrine (for example, diabetes) disorders were most likely to report dietary restrictions; while respondents with cardiovascular disease, respiratory, and musculoskeletal disorders were most likely to report ability to get out and about/stand/walk/go out shopping.
Conclusions - These results support the current trend of developing disease specific health related quality of life questionnaires rather than using generic scales
clinical-trials, health-status, disease
0143-005X
149 - 155
Bowling, Ann
796ca209-687f-4079-8a40-572076251936
Bowling, Ann
796ca209-687f-4079-8a40-572076251936

Bowling, Ann (1996) The effects of illness on quality of life: findings from a survey of households in Great Britain. Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health, 50 (2), 149 - 155. (doi:10.1136/jech.50.2.149). (PMID:8762379)

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Study objective - To obtain national population norms on pertinent domains of quality of Life, and the relative importance of these domains to people with reported longstanding illness.
Design and setting - The vehicle for the study was the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys omnibus survey in Great Britain. The sampling frame was the British postcode address file of "small users", stratified by region and socioeconomic factors. This file includes all private household addresses. The postal sectors are selected with probability proportional to size. Within each sector 30 addresses are selected randomly with an target size of 2000 adults.
Participants - The total number of adults interviewed was 2033 (one per sampled household), resulting in 2031 usable questionnaires, and representing a response rate of 77%.
Main results - Of those who reported a longstanding illness, the most common, freely mentioned, first most important effects of the longstanding illness on their lives were (in order of frequency) ability to get out and about/stand/walk/go out shopping, being able to work/find a job, and effects on social life/leisure activities. Analysis of the areas of life affected by longstanding illness, showed considerable variation in relation to the condition. For example, respondents with mental health disorders (mainly depression) were most likely to report as the first most important effect the availability of work/ability to work, followed by social life/leisure activities; respondents with digestive and endocrine (for example, diabetes) disorders were most likely to report dietary restrictions; while respondents with cardiovascular disease, respiratory, and musculoskeletal disorders were most likely to report ability to get out and about/stand/walk/go out shopping.
Conclusions - These results support the current trend of developing disease specific health related quality of life questionnaires rather than using generic scales

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Published date: April 1996
Keywords: clinical-trials, health-status, disease
Organisations: Faculty of Health Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 334790
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/334790
ISSN: 0143-005X
PURE UUID: 72e740a3-18ce-43ab-b778-05e71f1330d4

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