I want to study the quality of life in acne patients by a single questionnaire to make the study procedure and statistical part less cumbersome.
Basically i have gone through a good number of questionnaires to asses quality of life in dermatological patients like SF-36, Skindex, DLQI, WHOQOL, NHP, SIP, etc. But in order to study quality of life completely and comprehensively, most of the times two or more questionnaires are needed to assess all the components. This makes the survey a bit cumbersome and very complex statistics which becomes difficult for both researcher as well as reader. Not only this many journals will ask for more comprehensive assessment of quality of life by combining two or more questionnaires. Every questionnaire has some deficiencies when applying it to the different diseases which makes it difficult to study comprehensively a disease by a single questionnaire. From a critical review published in J of Investigative dermatology by Both Hilde et al, they concluded that a combination of SF-36 and Skindex-29 as the instruments of choice in dermatology.
You can access this review below
http://www.nature.com/jid/journal/v127/n12/full/5701142a.html
don't really know, I've only analysed SF36 questionnaire which has some elements, but lots of other measures also
Why don't you get a psych questionnaire? Like a quality of life Inventory, or something of that sort.
Basically i have gone through a good number of questionnaires to asses quality of life in dermatological patients like SF-36, Skindex, DLQI, WHOQOL, NHP, SIP, etc. But in order to study quality of life completely and comprehensively, most of the times two or more questionnaires are needed to assess all the components. This makes the survey a bit cumbersome and very complex statistics which becomes difficult for both researcher as well as reader. Not only this many journals will ask for more comprehensive assessment of quality of life by combining two or more questionnaires. Every questionnaire has some deficiencies when applying it to the different diseases which makes it difficult to study comprehensively a disease by a single questionnaire. From a critical review published in J of Investigative dermatology by Both Hilde et al, they concluded that a combination of SF-36 and Skindex-29 as the instruments of choice in dermatology.
You can access this review below
http://www.nature.com/jid/journal/v127/n12/full/5701142a.html
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