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  • 标题:Subjective health in older people
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  • 作者:Thomas Gunzelmann ; Andreas Hinz ; Elmar Brähler
  • 期刊名称:GMS Psycho-Social-Medicine
  • 印刷版ISSN:1860-5214
  • 出版年度:2006
  • 卷号:3
  • 页码:1-10
  • 出版社:German Medical Science
  • 摘要:The Nottingham Health Profile (NHP [1] ) is a widely used instrument to measure subjective health in clinical research. However, there are no age-specific norms for older adults in Germany. The present study was conducted to analyze the psychometric properties of the German version of the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) in older people. Age-specific reference values for the elderly are presented. Subjects were drawn from the general population of older German people aged 61 to 95 years (n=630; mean age 69.5 years; 55.7% female). Five of the six NHP scales revealed a good internal consistency (.70≤α≤.92). The subscales (with the exception of the subscale social isolation) showed moderate relations with instruments measuring somatization disorders and subjective body complaints (Screening for Somatoform Disorders SOMS [2] ); Giessen Subjective Complaints List GBB-24 [3] ). Compared to younger subjects, subjective health decreases with age. Therefore age-specific reference data for older people are necessary. Differential reference data are reported for four age groups above 60 years of age and for male and female older people. The outcome confirms that the NHP is a reliable, valid instrument to measure subjective health in older people.
  • 关键词:older people; subjective health; Nottingham Health Profile
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