Reference Values and Psychometric Properties of the Quality of Life After Traumatic Brain Injury-Overall Scale in Italy, The Netherlands, and the United Kingdom

• Published in: Value in health Vol. 24; no. 9; pp. 1319 - 1327
• Main Authors: Wu, Yi-Jhen, Rauen, Katrin, Zeldovich, Marina, Voormolen, Daphne C., Covic, Amra, Cunitz, Katrin, Plass, Anne-Marie, Polinder, Suzanne, Haagsma, Juanita A., von Steinbuechel, Nicole
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Inc 01.09.2021; Elsevier Science Ltd
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Age differences; Aged; Brain; Brain Injuries, Traumatic - psychology; Chronic illnesses; Clinical research; Complaints; Confirmatory factor analysis; Education; Factor analysis; Female; Health status; Health Surveys; Higher education; HRQoL; Humans; Internal Medicine; Italy; Male; Measurement; measurement invariance; Medical screening; Middle Aged; Netherlands; Population studies; Psychometrics; QOLIBRI-OS; Quality of Life; Quantitative psychology; Reference Values; Regression analysis; Sociodemographics; TBI; Traumatic brain injury; United Kingdom; Values; Young Adult; Italy; United Kingdom; Netherlands; United Kingdom > UK; HRQoL; reference values; TBI; QOLIBRI-OS; measurement invariance

The Quality of Life after Brain Injury-Overall Scale (QOLIBRI-OS) is a short screening instrument for assessing disease-specific health-related quality of life (HRQoL) after traumatic brain injury. To date, no reference values are available for the QOLIBRI-OS in general populations. Thus, this study...