RAND-12 Health Status Inventory.
RAND-12
- What it measures
- Brief generic HRQoL; 12-item analogue of the RAND-36 yielding physical and mental health composite scores (RAND scoring of the SF-12 item set)
- Length and format
- 12 items. mixed 2-, 3- and 5-point response scales; physical and mental composites (self-report questionnaire)
- Language versions
- Inherits the SF-12/IQOLA translation base
- Normative data
- No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
- Licence
- public-domain / open
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- Reference
- Hays, R. D., & Morales, L. S. (2001). The RAND-36 measure of health-related quality of life. Annals of Medicine, 33(5), 350-357.
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