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ArticleHealth and quality of life outcomes2004

The validity of the MacNew Quality of Life in heart disease questionnaire.

Martin Dempster, Michael Donnelly, Christina O'Loughlin

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21 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Differential associations of emotional and physical domains of the MacNew Heart with changes in 6-min walking test.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2023
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  5. Development of a preference-based heart disease-specific health state classification system using MacNew heart disease-related quality of life instrument.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2022
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  8. Does linear equating improve prediction in mapping? Crosswalking MacNew onto EQ-5D-5L value sets.The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care · 2020
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  14. Interventions that improve health-related quality of life in patients with myocardial infarction.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2016
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  17. The psychometric testing of the Thai version of the Health Utilities Index in patients with ischemic heart disease.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2013
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  20. Is psychometric scoring of the McNew Quality of Life after Myocardial Infarction questionnaire superior to the clinimetric scoring? A comparison of the two approaches.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2006
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Martin DempsterSchool of Psychology, Queen's University, David Keir Building, 18-30 Malone Road Belfast, UK. m.dempster@qub.ac.uk
Michael Donnelly
Christina O'Loughlin

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundA previous review suggested that the MacNew Quality of Life Questionnaire was the most appropriate disease-specific measure of health-related quality of life among people with ischaemic heart disease. However, there is ambiguity about the allocation of items to the three factors underlying the MacNew and the factor structure has not been confirmed previously among the people in the UK.

methodsThe MacNew Questionnaire and the SF-36 were administered to 117 newly admitted patients to a tertiary referral centre in Northern Ireland. All patients had been diagnosed with ischaemic heart disease.

resultsA confirmatory factor analysis was conducted on the factor structure of the MacNew and the model was found to be an inadequate fit of the data. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the items suggested that a five factor solution was more appropriate and this was validated by confirmatory factor analysis. This new structure also displayed strong evidence of concurrent validity when compared to the SF-36.

conclusionWe recommend that researchers should submit scores obtained from items on the MacNew to secondary analyses after being grouped according to the factor structure proposed in this paper, in order to explore further the most appropriate grouping of items.

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Quality of LifeSickness Impact ProfileAgedFactor Analysis, StatisticalFemaleHospitals, TeachingHumansMaleMiddle AgedMyocardial IschemiaNorthern IrelandPsychometricsReferral and ConsultationSurveys and Questionnaires

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PMID14738566
PMCPMC333433

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