Measuring health-related quality of life in sarcopenia: summary of the SarQoL psychometric properties.

ABSTRACT: Patient perspectives are now widely recognized as a key element in the evaluation of health interventions. Therefore, the provision of specific and validated Patient Reported Outcome Measures that emphasize the lived experience of patients suffering from specific diseases is very important. In the field of sarcopenia, the only validated specific health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instrument available is the Sarcopenia Quality of Life questionnaire (SarQoL). This self-administrated HRQoL questionnaire, developed in 2015, consists of 55 items arranged into 22 questions and has currently been translated into 35 languages. Nineteen validation studies performed on SarQoL have consensually confirmed the capacity of SarQoL to detect difference in HRQoL between older people with and without sa

SUBMITTER: Beaudart C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10363087 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature