AQoLS-Brief: Development and psychometric properties of a short version of the alcohol quality of life scale.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Short versions of health-related quality of life measures are essential for the development of preference-based measures used to obtain the quality-adjustment weights needed to calculate quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) in health economic evaluations. Using data from the randomized TRAIN study, which compared the efficacy of two cognitive training programs in patients with alcohol use disorder (AUD) recently detoxified at five centers in France from 2019 to 2023 (n=227), we report the development and psychometrics of the AQoLS-Brief, a short version of the initial 34-item Alcohol Quality of Life Scale (AQoLS).

Methods

Baseline data on, age, sex, AUD severity, drinking characteristics and consequences of alcohol including the AQoLS were collected. One item per d

SUBMITTER: Luquiens A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12040188 | biostudies-literature | 2025

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature