The KDQOL ™-36 contains 5 subscales: the Physical Component Summary (PCS), Mental Component Sum- mary (MCS ), Burden of Kid ney Disea se (BKD), Symp- toms and Pro blems of Kid ney Disea se (SPKD), The full complete version of the KDQOL- KITincludes - KDQOL-36 questionnaire (8 pages) KDQOL-36 Excel Assessment template KDQOL-SF questionnaire (17 pages) KDQOL-SF - - KDQOL Clinical Validity Scoring guide (39 pages) KDQOL-36 & KDQOL-SF User Manual + Assessment Excel template Buy full version here - for $7.00 The KDQOL-SF TM was supported in part by an unrestricted grant from Amgen to RAND, and a subgrant from the University of Arizona to RAND, and a grant from Baxter Healthcare Corporation.. Hays, R.D., Kallich, J.D., Mapes, D.L., Coons, S.J., Amin, N., & Carter, W.B. (1995) Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form (KDQOL-SF TM), Version 1.3: A Manual for Use and Scoring. Hays RD et al. (1997). Kidney Disease Quality of Life Short Form (KDQOL-SF™), Version 1.3: A Manual for Use and Scoring. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, P-7994. Member Access . Already a subscriber ? LOGIN . Subscribe to PROQOLID to access to full information KDQOL-36™ Survey - Kidney Disease Quality of Life instrument™ - 36 items . The scale scores of the KDQOL-36 questionnaire (PCS, MCS, symptoms and problems, burden of kidney disease, effects of kidney disease,) are transformed to 0 to 100 with higher scores indicating better HRQOL [ 24, 29 ]. We used the KDQOL Tm -36 scoring program (V 2.0) from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) to compute the scale scores. The SF-36 and kidney disease-targeted portions of the questionnaire were scored according to the manual by Ware et al [31] and the KDQOL scoring manual [16]. On all scales, the possible scores range from 0 to 100; higher scores indicate more or better functioning, or better quality of life. The summary scales have the same Certain interventions have been found to improve HRQOL scores among people with chronic kidney disease (most often on dialysis) in randomized, controlled trials. These include: Automated (vs. manual) peritoneal dialysis. [ 1] After 6 months, APD patients had higher SF-36 scores. Nighttime treatments allowed time for work, family, and social life. A test of the scores of peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients discovered low reliability for three disease-specific scales. The KDQOL-SF manual and the Danish manual for the Short Form 36 (SF36) differed in the scoring of four generic scales: "role limitation-physical", "bodily pain", "general health" and "social function". Scores were computed according to the scoring manual and ranged from 0-100. Higher scores indicated a better quality of life (Hays et al, 1997). Adjustment and wellbeing among people with Handling of specific SF-36 missing items followed the SF-36 scoring manual . The manual suggests that missing items can be estimated by a single imputation method if they contribute to <50 % of a given scale, and the imputation method is provided. In CKD, this led to the development of the KDQOL, a dialysis-specific QoL questionnaire with RAND Corporation Additionally, KDQOL-36 Summary Score is computed from the average scores of all items from kidney diseasespecific components [61]. Suboptimal summary [62] and component scores were defined as Additionally, KDQOL-36 Summary Score is computed from the average scores of all items from kidney diseasespecific components [61]. Suboptimal summary [62] and component scores were defined as