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Health status: The Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) 36 Short Form Health Survey (SF-36)

    • The 36 item short forms (SF-36) was designed by the medical outcomes trust to survey health status in medical outcome studies, and is called the medical outcomes study short form 36
    • Eight health concepts are measured:
      1. physical functioning
      2. role limitations because of physical health problems
      3. body pain
      4. social functioning
      5. general mental health (physiological distress and physiological well-being)
      6. role limitations because of emotional problem
      7. vitality (energy/ fatigue); and
      8. general health perceptions
    • For each questions raw scores are coded, summed and transformed into a scale from 0 (worse possible health state measured) to 100 (best possible health care) following the standard SF-36 scoring algorithms
    • The test can be self-administered for patient 14 year of age and older and by trained person by telephone, the SF-36 is the most widely accepted measure of quality of life. However, it is cumbersome to use and required complicated analysis