How useful are the SF-36 sub-scales in older people? Mokken scaling of data from the HALCyon programme

The HALCyon Study Team; Gita D Mishra; Catharine R.  Gale; Avan Aihie Sayer; Cyrus Cooper; Elaine M Dennison; Lawrence J Whalley; Leone Craig; Diana Kuh; Ian J Deary

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How useful are the SF-36 sub-scales in older people? Mokken scaling of data from the HALCyon programme

The HALCyon Study Team, Gita D Mishra, Catharine R. Gale, Avan Aihie Sayer, Cyrus Cooper, Elaine M Dennison, Lawrence J Whalley, Leone Craig, Diana Kuh, Ian J Deary

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PURPOSE: To evaluate two psychometric properties of SF-36, namely unidimensionality and reliability. METHODS: The data are from three cohorts in the HALCyon collaborative research programme into healthy ageing: Aberdeen Birth Cohort 1936 (n = 428), Hertfordshire Ageing Study (n = 358) and Hertfordshire Cohort Study (n = 3,216). The Mokken scaling model was applied to each sub-scale of SF-36 to evaluate unidimensionality as indicated by scalability. The lower bound for internal consistency reliability was determined by Cronbach's alpha. RESULTS: All six sub-scales of SF-36, with the exception of general health (GH) and mental health (MH), demonstrated strong scalability (0.5 ≤ H

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1005-1010
Number of pages	6
Journal	Quality of Life Research
Volume	20
Issue number	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-010-9838-7
Publication status	Published - 2011

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