Inflammatory bowel disease-specific health-related quality of life instruments: a systematic review of measurement properties

• Published in: Health and quality of life outcomes Vol. 15; no. 1; pp. 177 - 13
• Main Authors: Chen, Xin-Lin, Zhong, Liang-huan, Wen, Yi, Liu, Tian-Wen, Li, Xiao-Ying, Hou, Zheng-Kun, Hu, Yue, Mo, Chuan-wei, Liu, Feng-Bin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England BioMed Central Ltd 15.09.2017; BioMed Central; BMC
• Subjects: Adult; Care and treatment; Clinical medicine; Crohn's disease; Diagnosis; Female; Full text; Health aspects; Humans; Hypothesis testing; Inflammatory bowel disease; Inflammatory bowel diseases; Inflammatory Bowel Diseases - psychology; Instrument; Intestine; Irritable bowel syndrome; Male; Measurement properties; Patients; Properties (attributes); Quality of Life; Reliability engineering; Reproducibility of Results; Researchers; Review; Structural reliability; Studies; Surveys and Questionnaires - standards; Ulcerative colitis; Validation Studies as Topic; Validity; Inflammatory bowel disease; Instrument; Measurement properties; Quality of life

This review aims to critically appraise and compare the measurement properties of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-specific health-related quality of life instruments. Medline, EMBASE and ISI Web of Knowledge were searched from their inception to May 2016. IBD-specific instruments for patients with...