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标题：The validity of the MacNew Quality of Life in heart disease questionnaire
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作者：Martin Dempster ; Michael Donnelly ; Christina O'Loughlin 等
期刊名称：Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
印刷版ISSN：1477-7525
电子版ISSN：1477-7525
出版年度：2004
卷号：2
期号：1
页码：6
DOI：10.1186/1477-7525-2-6
语种：English
出版社：BioMed Central
摘要：A previous review suggested that the MacNew Quality of Life Questionnaire was the most appropriate disease-specific measure of health-related quality of life among people with ischaemic heart disease. However, there is ambiguity about the allocation of items to the three factors underlying the MacNew and the factor structure has not been confirmed previously among the people in the UK. The MacNew Questionnaire and the SF-36 were administered to 117 newly admitted patients to a tertiary referral centre in Northern Ireland. All patients had been diagnosed with ischaemic heart disease. A confirmatory factor analysis was conducted on the factor structure of the MacNew and the model was found to be an inadequate fit of the data. A quantitative and qualitative analysis of the items suggested that a five factor solution was more appropriate and this was validated by confirmatory factor analysis. This new structure also displayed strong evidence of concurrent validity when compared to the SF-36. We recommend that researchers should submit scores obtained from items on the MacNew to secondary analyses after being grouped according to the factor structure proposed in this paper, in order to explore further the most appropriate grouping of items.
关键词：Confirmatory Factor Analysis ; Ischaemic Heart Disease ; Cardiac Rehabilitation ; Cardiac Rehabilitation Programme ; Physical Functioning Scale