Journal article
Conceptual Model of Health-Related Quality of Life
Journal of nursing scholarship, Vol.37(4), pp.336-342
Accepted for publication August 17, 2004.
12/2005
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2005.00058.x
PMID: 16396406
Abstract
Purpose: To revise the Wilson and Cleary model of health-related quality of life (HRQoL), with suggestions for applying each of the components, and to facilitate the use of HRQoL in nursing and health care. Organizing Construct: HRQoL, based on relevant literature over the past 20 years. Methods: The original model was revised in three substantive ways: (a) indicating that biological function is influenced by characteristics of both individuals and environments; (b) deleting nonmedical factors; and (c) deleting the labels on the arrows that tend to restrict characterization of the relationships. Findings: Theoretical background is provided for each of the major components of the model, and examples of instruments to measure them, were added. Conclusions: In quality-of-life research, the current challenge is to devise models to clarify the elements of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and the causal relationships among them. This revision of Wilson and Cleary's model includes a taxonomy of the variables that often have been used to measure HRQoL. This revision should be useful in research and clinical practice. ©2005 Sigma Theta Tau International.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Conceptual Model of Health-Related Quality of Life
- Creators
- Carol Estwing Ferrans - University of Illinois at ChicagoJulie Johnson Zerwic - University of Illinois at ChicagoJo Ellen WilburJanet L. Larson - University of Illinois at Chicago
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of nursing scholarship, Vol.37(4), pp.336-342
- Edition
- Accepted for publication August 17, 2004.
- Publisher
- Blackwell Science Inc
- DOI
- 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2005.00058.x
- PMID
- 16396406
- ISSN
- 1527-6546
- eISSN
- 1547-5069
- Number of pages
- 7
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/2005
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9984370636002771
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