Development and validation of a new global well-being outcomes rating scale for integrative medicine research.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Researchers are finding limitations of currently available disease-focused questionnaire tools for outcome studies in complementary and alternative medicine/integrative medicine (CAM/IM).

Methods

Three substudies investigated the new one-item visual analogue Arizona Integrative Outcomes Scale (AIOS), which assesses self-rated global sense of spiritual, social, mental, emotional, and physical well-being over the past 24 hours and the past month. The first study tested the scale's ability to discriminate unhealthy individuals (n = 50) from healthy individuals (n = 50) in a rehabilitation outpatient clinic sample. The second study examined the concurrent validity of the AIOS by comparing ratings of global well-being to degree of psychological distress as measured by

SUBMITTER: Bell IR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC343287 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature