Psychometric properties the Iranian version of Older People's Quality Of Life questionnaire (OPQOL).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Assessing quality of life (QOL) in elderly needs specific instruments. The Older People's Quality of Life Questionnaire (OPQOL-35) is one of the common tools that used for measuring quality of life in elderly populations. The questionnaires contains 35 items tapping into eight domains including life overall, health, social relationships and participation, independence, control over life and freedom, home and neighborhood, psychological and emotional well-being, financial circumstances, culture and religion. This study aimed to translate and validate the OPQOL-35 in Iran.

Methods

Forward-backward procedure was applied to translate the original questionnaire from English into Persian. Then following qualitative face and content validity, a sample of elderly people c

SUBMITTER: Nikkhah M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6126014 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature