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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Publication date: 2012-01-01
Volume: 10 18
Publisher: BioMed Central

Author:

Williams, Kate
Frei, Anja ; Vetsch, Anders ; Dobbels, Fabienne ; Puhan, Milo A ; Rüdell, Katja

Keywords:

Activities of Daily Living, Chronic Disease, Health Promotion, Humans, Motor Activity, Psychometrics, Quality of Life, Questionnaires, Reproducibility of Results, Self Report, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Health Care Sciences & Services, Health Policy & Services, Physical activity, Chronic illness, Patient-reported outcome questionnaires, Systematic review, QUALITY-OF-LIFE, DAILY LIVING SCALE, OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY-DISEASE, LOW-BACK-PAIN, SELF-ADMINISTERED QUESTIONNAIRE, MEASURING FUNCTIONAL OUTCOMES, ILLNESS PROBLEM INVENTORY, LINEAR ANALOG SCALE, HEALTH SURVEY SF-36, ENERGY-EXPENDITURE, Surveys and Questionnaires, 1117 Public Health and Health Services, 4203 Health services and systems, 4206 Public health

Abstract:

Many patients with chronic illness are limited in their physical activities. This systematic review evaluates the content and format of patient-reported outcome (PRO) questionnaires that measure physical activity in elderly and chronically ill populations.