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Measuring population health and quality of life: Developing and testing of the significant quality of life measure (SigQOLM).
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- Comparing Quality of Life and Well-Being Among Patients with Chronic Diseases.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- A General, Simple, and Robust Scoring Mechanism for Scales Measuring Latent Variables.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2026Article
- A Review of Generic Frameworks and Scales for Measuring Quality of Life and Well-Being: Toward Finding the Right Ruler.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- The revised version of significant quality of life measure (SigQOLM-36).BMC research notes · 2025Article
- Quality of life and overall well-being between healthy individuals and patients with varied clinical diagnoses.BMC public health · 2025Article
- A generic and dynamic measure of health-related quality of life across a variety of health and disease conditions: insights from healthy individuals and patients with a variety of diagnoses.BMC research notes · 2025Article
- Health systems and quality of life: The situation of South Africans with spinal cord injury.The South African journal of physiotherapy · 2025Article
- Health-SigQOLM is a versatile scale for measuring various aspects of health-related quality of life.BMC research notes · 2024Article
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Abstract
Quality of life (QOL) should ideally be determined by a broader spectrum of measurable parameters. This study aims to develop and validate a study instrument that is designed to determine a holistic measure of health and non-health aspects of QOL, and it is called the 'Significant Quality of Life Measure' (SigQOLM). This study involves five phases which aim to (i) explore and understand the subject matter content, (ii) develop a questionnaire, (iii) assess its content validity and face validity, (iv) conduct a pilot study, and lastly (v) perform a field-test by using the questionnaire. For the field-testing phase, a cross-sectional study was conducted which elicited responses from healthcare workers via a self-administered survey for all the SigQOLM items. Based on the results, the overall framework of the SigQOLM consists of four elements, 18 domains with 69 items. The element of "Health" is measured by nine domains, while "Relationships", "Functional activities, and "Survival" are measured by three domains respectively. The SigQOLM has been developed successfully and then validated with a high level of reliability, validity, and overall model fit. Therefore, the SigQOLM will provide researchers and policymakers another viable option to elicit a more comprehensive outcome measure of QOL which shall then enable them to implement specific interventions for improving the QOL of all the people, both healthy or otherwise.
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