A study of Filipina migrant workers' subjective health in Hong Kong and an assessment of eight scoring methods for the 12-Item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12).

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The SF-12 version 2 is a survey instrument for collecting data on subjective health. The US-based scoring method is the recommended standard for measuring subjective health with data collected with this instrument. The inadequacy of the US-based scoring method of the SF-12 version 2 instrument for non-US populations is widely documented. However, few studies systematically assessed relative performance of alternative scoring methods against the US-based method, our main objective in this paper. Through this investigation, we also intend to shed light on Filipina migrant workers' subjective health in Hong Kong, our case study.

Methods

This study investigates the feasibility of eight such scoring methods-six latent-variable models, the raw score index, and the US-ba

SUBMITTER: Liao TF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11776024 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature