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Health, quality of life and health psychology

Veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey.

VR-12

What it measures
Brief generic HRQoL; Physical (PCS) and Mental (MCS) component summaries, derived from the Veterans RAND 36 (VR-36/VR-12)
Length and format
12 items. mixed response scales; norm-based PCS/MCS (mean 50, SD 10) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
Several (Spanish and others)
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
Selim, A. J., et al. (2009). Updated U.S. population standard for the Veterans RAND 12-item Health Survey (VR-12). Quality of Life Research, 18(1), 43-52.

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