caa a22 4500 397516584 CHVBK 20180308164620.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202s1995 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/eurpub/5.2.87 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.1093/eurpub/5.2.87 Influence of socio-demographic and health status variables on evaluation of health states in a Spanish population [Elektronische Daten] [XAVIER BADIA, ESTEVE FERNANDEZ, ANDREU SEGURA] As part of a European project In health status measurement, the aim of the present article was to test the feasibility of the Spanish version of the EuroQol© and to analyse the influence of socio-demographic and health status variables in the evaluation of health states in a Spanish population. The pilot study showed that while the translation of the EuroQol© into Spanish was satisfactory, the task of evaluation was considered to be too difficult to be done by using mailed questionnaires. Through a quota sampling method we recruited 600 individuals attending a centre of primary care according to age, sex, occupational class and patient/non-patient status. We administered the EuroQol instrument - a descriptive system with 5 dimensions each with 3 levels and a visual analogue scale (thermometer) on which individuals rate their own health state ranging from 0 to 100. Values for a subset of 16 health states out of 243 possible combinations were obtained on a visual analogue scale. Self-rated health state was predicted by age, self-described health state and experience of illness (r2=0.51). Despite the low prediction rate, the differences in the values assigned to the 16 health states appeared to be as a result of the difficulty in the task evaluation and of age. The small differences found suggest that socio-demographic and health status characteristics do not influence health states ratings among individuals attending a primary care centre. Further research is currently under way to test the reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the EuroQol©. © European Journal of Public Health ORIGINAL ARTICLES ON OTHER TOPICS nationallicence quality of life nationallicence health status measurement nationallicence EuroQolo© nationallicence evaluation of health states nationallicence visual analogue scale nationallicence BADIA XAVIER Institut Universitari de Salut Pública de Catalunya Hospitalet, Barcelona aut FERNANDEZ ESTEVE Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mècia (IMIM), Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona UAB aut SEGURA ANDREU Institut Universitari de Salut Pública de Catalunya Hospitalet, Barcelona aut The European Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press 5/2(1995), 87-93 1101-1262 5:2<87 1995 5 eurpub https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/5.2.87 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/eurpub/5.2.87 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- BADIA XAVIER Institut Universitari de Salut Pública de Catalunya Hospitalet, Barcelona aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- FERNANDEZ ESTEVE Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mècia (IMIM), Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona UAB aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- SEGURA ANDREU Institut Universitari de Salut Pública de Catalunya Hospitalet, Barcelona aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The European Journal of Public Health Oxford University Press 5/2(1995), 87-93 1101-1262 5:2<87 1995 5 eurpub Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford