Objective: To provide New Zealand population norms for version 2 of the SF-36 and SF-12 health surveys and report scoring coefficients that enable the construction of Physical and Mental Component Summary scores from New Zealand SF-36v2 and SF-12v2 data.. Conclusion: Differences between: 1) New Zealand population norms for the SF-36 versions 1 and 2; and 2) SF-36v2 and SF-12v2 population norms The MOS 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36®): III. tests of data quality, scaling assumptions and reliability across diverse patient groups. Med Care1994; 32(4):40-66. Ware JE, Snow KK, Kosinski M, Gandek B. SF-36® Health Survey Manual and Interpretation Guide. Boston, MA: New England Medical Center, The Health Institute, 1993. SF-36 physical and mental health. Health Survey, Manual and Interpretation Guide. (1994) Use of the 12-item Short-Form (SF-12) health survey in an Australian heart and stroke Snow, K. K. , Kosinski, M. K. & Gandek, B. (1993).SF-36 health survey manual and interpretation guide. Boston, MA: The Health Institute, New England Medical Center. Google Scholar: Access content To read the fulltext, please use one of the options below to As a health survey, the SF-36v2 Health Survey can be used across age, disease, and treatment groups, in contrast to a disease-specific health survey which focuses on a particular disease or condition. It measures each of the following eight health domains: Physical Functioning, Role-Physical, Bodily Pain, General Health, Vitality, Social In clinical practice, quality of life measures can be used alongside some types of assessment to give valuable information that can identify areas that influence an individual and help the clinician make the best healthcare choices. This study aimed to investigate the psychometric properties of the Arabic version of the 12-item short-form health survey (SF-12) in a sample of Lebanese adults. SF-36® Physical and Mental Health Summary Scales: A User's Manual. Boston, MA: The Health Institute, 1994. 14. Tsai C, Bayliss MS, Ware JE. SF-36® Health Survey Annotated Bibliography: Second Edition (1988-1996). Boston, MA: Health Assessment Lab, New England Medical Center, 1997. 15. McHorney CA, Ware JE, Lu JFR, et al. The MOS 36-Item Short Regression methods were used to select and score 12 items from the Medical Outcomes Study 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey (SF-36) to reproduce the Physical Component Summary and Mental Component Summary scales in the general US population (n=2,333). The resulting 12-item short-form (SF-12) achieved … CiteSeerX - Scientific documents that cite the following paper: et al. SF-36 Health Survey. Manual and interpretation guide Used with permission from J.E. Ware et al. (1993) SF-36 health survey manual and interpretation guide . Boston: New England Medical Center. THE SF-36 HEALTH SURVEY IN MENTAL HEALTH RESEARCH 55 Health Organization's definition of health as a "state of complete phys-ical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of dis- Relative validity estimates for the 12-item Mental Component Summary in 6 tests involving mental criteria ranged from 0.60 to 1.07 (median = 0.97) in relation to the best 36-item short-form scale. Average scores for the 2 summary measures, and those for most scales in the 8-scale profile based on the 12-item short-form, closely mirrored those The SF-12 is able to p