The results of convergent and discriminant validity support our hypotheses in which SEIQoL-DW was expected to correlate moderately to high with measures of global QoL , life satisfaction and mental health and weakly with measures of functional status and health .
Conclusion The SEIQoL-DW appears to be a feasible and valid instrument .
The lack of association between the Index score and health , functional status , demographic and clinical parameters may be explained by the instrument ’s focus on global QoL and by that of the idiographic measurement approach reflecting the capacity of a patient to value domains other than health in life , despite having health problems .
Purpose To review published studies regarding the use , feasibility and psychometric performance of the schedule for the evaluation of individual quality of life — direct weighting ( SEIQoL-DW ) in clinical research .
Life quality vs the 'quality of life': assumptions underlying prospective quality of life instruments in health care planning.
Quality of  Life is a broad construct used in health planning , health economics , and medical decision-making . It is also a term that has a long currency in social and sociological literature s. This paper considers the assumptions underlying prospect i ve QL instruments in an historical and contemporary context . It argues that as a tool in health planning and in clinical decision making life quality as a measurement has its origins in the early eugenics literature and the social policies that derived from it in first North America , the primary focus of this paper , and later in Europe . Reference to narrative and social literature s , as well as those involving coping and adaptation , are then used to critique the assumptions underlying this class of QL instruments . It concludes that to the degree now current prospect i ve instruments reflect a purely physical perspective of " disease burden " irrespective of social conditions they create a context that works against life quality , and in some cases , the continuance of persons with physical differences
The results of convergent and discriminant validity support our hypotheses in which SEIQoL-DW was expected to correlate moderately to high with measures of global QoL , life satisfaction and mental health and weakly with measures of functional status and health .
Conclusion The SEIQoL-DW appears to be a feasible and valid instrument .
The lack of association between the Index score and health , functional status , demographic and clinical parameters may be explained by the instrument ’s focus on global QoL and by that of the idiographic measurement approach reflecting the capacity of a patient to value domains other than health in life , despite having health problems .
Purpose To review published studies regarding the use , feasibility and psychometric performance of the schedule for the evaluation of individual quality of life — direct weighting ( SEIQoL-DW ) in clinical research .