PURPOSE: To provide Dutch normal values for rehabilitation outpatients with @entity1118 or @entity85 utilizing the World Health Organization Quality of Life questionnaire abbreviated version (WHOQOL-BREF) and analyse influence of diagnosis and @entity1 characteristics on normal values and increase understanding in those values. METHODS: Five hundred and forty-two outpatients were referred to a rehabilitation psychologist. Referral diagnoses were "musculoskeletal", " @entity1118 ", "neurological" and "miscellaneous". Comparisons between groups were made for each of the four domains of the WHOQOL-BREF (scoring range 4-20). RESULTS: Domain scores of rehabilitation outpatients were physical domain 11.0 (  2.7), psychological domain 13.6 (  2.4), social domain 14.8 (  3.4) and environmental domain 14.2 (  2.2). Outpatients with @entity1118 reported the lowest scores on the WHOQOL-BREF when compared to the "musculoskeletal", "neurological" and "miscellaneous" groups. Increased age, lower education, living alone and unemployment had a negative impact on WHOQOL-BREF scores. Compared to the general Dutch population, rehabilitation outpatients scored, unadjusted for age, significantly lower difference for the physical domain 4.5 [95  % confidence interval (CI) 4.2; 4.8], the environment domain 1.7 (95  % CI 1.5; 2.0), the psychological domain 1.1 (95  % CI 0.4; 1.2) and the social domain 0.4 (95  % CI 0.0; 0.8). CONCLUSIONS: WHOQOL-BREF scores of rehabilitation outpatients are lower and differed significantly from normal values of a Dutch population in all four domains. Therefore, the WHOQOL-BREF can be used to measure the subjective @entity66 . The subjective impact of @entity1118 was found to be particularly high.

Quality of life in rehabilitation outpatients: normal values and a comparison with the general Dutch population and psychiatric XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['patient'] @entity85 :: ('MESH:D009140', 'Disease') :: ['musculoskeletal diseases'] @entity1118 :: ('MESH:D059350', 'Disease') :: ['chronic pain'] @entity66 :: ('MESH:D004194', 'Disease') :: ['impact of their disease or injury']
@entity1 :: (9606,Species) :: ['patients']
