Validation of the SarQoL®, a specific health-related quality of life questionnaire for Sarcopenia.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A specific self-administrated health-related quality of life questionnaire for sarcopenia, the Sarcopenia and Quality Of Life (SarQoL®), has been recently developed. This questionnaire is composed of 55 items translated into 22 questions and organized into seven domains of quality of life. The objective of the present work is to evaluate the psychometric properties (discriminative power, validity, reliability, floor and ceiling effects) of the SarQoL® questionnaire.

Methods

Sarcopenic subjects were recruited in an outpatient clinic in Liège, Belgium and were diagnosed according to the algorithm developed by the European Working Group on Sarcopenia in Older People. We compared the score of the SarQoL® between sarcopenic and non-sarcopenic subjects using a logistic

SUBMITTER: Beaudart C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5377391 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature