A systematic review of quality-of-life measures for palliative care in Spain

作者：Velasco Alvarez M L^*; Cabrero Carcia J; Cabanero Martinez M J

来源：Medicina Paliativa, 2010, 17(3): 172-184.

• Palliative care
• Quality of life
• Psychometric properties
• Systematic review

Objective: to identify which multidimensional measures for quality of life are used on palliative patients in Spain, which is their degree of conceptual and technical adequacy, and if they meet the appropriate standards of reliability, validity and responsiveness.
Method: a systematic review of measuring instruments. Electronic searches were carried out with three terms: palliative care, multidimensional measures of quality of life, and quality attributes of measures (psychometrics) both in Spanish (IME and ISOC) and international databases (MEDLINE, CINAHL, PsycInfo and EMBASE). Manual searches and reference searches were also conducted.
Results: eighteen empirical articles were found relating to 5 multidimensional measures: the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer. Quality of Life Questionnaire of Cancer 30, the Rotterdam Sympton Checklist, the Quality for Life-Cancer-Antonio Font Experimental, the Palliative Care Outcome Scale, and the Hebrew Rehabilitation Centre for Aged Quality of Life Index, as well as two modular scales: the Quality of Life Questionnaire-Colorectal 38 and the Quality of Life Questionnaire of Head & Neck 35. The obtained evidences with each of them did not meet the minimum recommended standards for patient-based health outcome measures.
Conclusions: the Palliative Care Outcome Scale (POS) is the measurement with the best overall evaluation: its conceptual adequacy and feasibility are good but it does not attain recommended psychometric standards.

• 出版日期2010-6