Performance of self-reported health status measures in usual care rheumatology clinics

Rasch analysis shows that Health Assessment Questionnaire II is a truly generic measure of physical functioning for rheumatic diseases: a cross-sectional study

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12617001500347

Enrollment

1000

Registered

2017-10-24

Start date

2004-07-08

Completion date

2008-08-21

Last updated

2017-10-30

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This study was to assess the usefulness of a commonly used health status questionnaire (HAQ-II). In particular it was to confirm that the questionnaire behaved in the same way across different diseases seen within general rheumatology clinic settings. Patients completed the questionnaire as part of their ordinary clinic visit and statistical analysis was used to confirm that it the items of the questionnaire behaved similarly for people with different diseases.

Interventions

Usual care. Participants completed a single page questionnaire consisting of the Pain 100mm visual analogue scale (VAS), Patient Global 100mm VAS, and HAQ-II (10 items). The questionnaire was completed immediately before the clinical consultation and the results were available to the clinician to assist with management discussions.

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Completion of routine clinic self-report questionnaire. Any person who completed the self-report questionnaire at their clinic visit was eligible for the study. This essentially meant all rheumatology clinic attenders. There were no restrictions for disease type or number of prior clinic visits.

Exclusion criteria

None

Outcome results