I am working on Seniors Social Isolation project. The assumption is that services provided by community health workers will reduce social isolation and improve well-being. I am looking for a validated measure of quality of life/ participation that will measure change. I have looked at Joanna Coast's ICECAP measures. Sharon Wood Dauphinee's Reintegration to Normal Living also seems to measure the domains that are likely important to well-being.
What other measures might be useful?
Thanks so much
Hi, to find good ways to measure wellbeing/community participation may be a bit complicated. - I just found this document, that perhaps is useful: Measuring National Well-being - Office for National Statistics ...
In Research my teams have used the following: SF-36, General Health Questionnaire 20 or GHQ-28. These are not perfect, but have been applicable in e.g. stroke research. Regards from Unni Sveen
Thanks so much Unni. First I must say how much I enjoy your work. As the wife of a stroke survivor, your work really resonates with me.
The older adults (those 55 and over) with whom we are working live in the community. We will be using the EQ 5D 5L and would like something a bit less health or medical. We note in the reviews that it seems to be improved social connections that move the needle on social isolation/loneliness.
be careful about RNL because it measures satisfaction with rather than actual partiicpation.
Life-space mobility is an emerging measure that seem to work well to identify if seniors are leaving their homes and there are some typical values
Well-being is often used to refer to depression as in the WHO-Wellbeing scale which is depression but for you use, it might be quite good
there are very few actual QOL measures, there are many HRQL measures, for QOL, I like the PGI which is personalized and gets at what each person identifies as their personal list.
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