caa a22 4500 467916551 CHVBK 20180406152904.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-005-5552-1 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-005-5552-1 Interpreting the WHOQOL-Brèf: Preliminary Population Norms and Effect Sizes [Elektronische Daten] [Graeme Hawthorne, Helen Herrman, Barbara Murphy] Since publication use of the WHOQOL-Brèf has rapidly risen. However, as yet no population norms have been published as a reference point against which researchers can interpret their findings. This study provides preliminary population norms for this purpose. Randomly sampled community residents from two studies were pooled and used to examine the properties of the WHOQOL-Brèf by age group, gender and health status. The results showed that general norms for the WHOQOL-Brèf domains were 73.5 (SD=18.1) for the Physical health domain, 70.6 (14.0) for Psychological wellbeing, 71.5 (18.2) for Social relationships and 75.1 (13.0) for the Environment domain. In general scores declined slightly by age group. For females scores were stable across the lifespan with an accelerated decline after the age of 60years. Males exhibited a more consistent and even decline across the lifespan. There were significant differences in WHOQOL-Brèf scores when reported by health status, with those in poor health obtaining scores that were up to 50% lower than those in excellent health. Effect sizes between different health status levels are reported. These preliminary norms and effect sizes may be used as reference points for interpreting WHOQOL-Brèf scores. They provide additional information to the numerous national studies already reporting on the validity of the WHOQOL-Brèf. Springer, 2006 effect sizes nationallicence population norms nationallicence profile health status instruments nationallicence quality of life measurement nationallicence WHOQOL-Brèf nationallicence Hawthorne Graeme Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, West Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia aut Herrman Helen Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, West Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia aut Murphy Barbara Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, West Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia aut Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 77/1(2006-05-01), 37-59 0303-8300 77:1<37 2006 77 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-5552-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-005-5552-1 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hawthorne Graeme Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, West Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Herrman Helen Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, West Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Murphy Barbara Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne, West Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 77/1(2006-05-01), 37-59 0303-8300 77:1<37 2006 77 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer