Assessment of Quality of Life 6D (AQoL-6D)
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| Purpose | The AQoL-6D instrument is an adaptation of the AQoL. It was designed to increase sensitivity to health, state variations close to normal health, and to extend the coverage of AQoL. The AQoL instruments were designed because of the perceived limitations in the other instruments. |
| Domain(s) | Quality of Life |
| Target population | Adult |
| Number of items | 20 |
| Administration format | self-report |
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| Availability in other languages | Spanish, German, Danish, Chinese, Italian |
| Fee for use | |
| Free | |
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The AQoL-6D can be dowloaded here: |
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| Non-exhaustive list of psychometric studies | |
Allen, J., Inder, K. J., Lewin, T. J., Attia, J. R., & Kelly, B. J. (2013). Construct validity of the assessment of quality of life - 6D (AQoL-6D) in community samples. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 11(1) doi:10.1186/1477-7525-11-61 Eyles, J. P., Ferreira, M., Mills, K., Lucas, B. R., Robbins, S. R., Williams, M., . . . Hunter, D. J. (2020). Is the patient activation measure a valid measure of osteoarthritis self-management attitudes and capabilities? results of a rasch analysis. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 18(1) doi:10.1186/s12955-020-01364-6 Maxwell, A, Özmen, M, Iezzi, A, & Richardson, JR (2016). Deriving population norms for the AQoL-6D and AQoL-8D multi attribute utility instruments from web-based data. Quality of Life Research. DOI 10.1007/s11136-016-1337-z Richardson J, Peacock S, Hawthorne G, Iezzi A, Elsworth G & Atherton Day N. (2012). Construction of the descriptive system for the assessment of quality of life AQoL-6D utility instrument. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 10(38). doi:10.1186/1477-7525-10-38 Richardson J. (2010). Psychometric Validity and Multi Attribute Utility (MAU) Instruments, Research Paper 57, Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, Melbourne. |
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