Development and validation of a short-form suboptimal health status questionnaire.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Suboptimal health status (SHS) is a reversible, borderline state between optimal health and disease. Although this condition's definition is widely understood, related questionnaires must be developed to identify individuals with SHS in various populations relative to predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine (PPPM/3PM). This study presents a short-form suboptimal health status questionnaire (SHSQ-SF) that appears to possess sufficient reliability and validity to assess SHS in large-scale populations.

Methods

A total of 6183 participants enrolled from Southern China constituted a training set, while 4113 participants from Northern China constituted an external validation set. The SHSQ-SF includes nine key items from the Suboptimal Health Status Questionnai

SUBMITTER: Sun S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10713892 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature