Kopec J A, Williams J I, To T, Austin P C
Department of Health Care and Epidemiology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC.
Can J Public Health. 2000 Nov-Dec;91(6):465-70. doi: 10.1007/BF03404831.
This study used cross-sectional data from the 1994/95 National Population Health Survey (NPHS) in Canada. The objective of the study was to examine the relationship between several established correlates of health status in the general population and the Health Utilities Index (HUI), a multi-dimensional, preference-based measure of health status. Analyses were carried out separately for the English-speaking (n = 9,853) and French-speaking (n = 1,519) respondents. The index correlated strongly with self-ratings of health status and functional disability and varied as expected according to age, sex, and income. Subjects classified to different categories of chronic conditions reported different levels of health, as predicted. The HUI was also associated with the use of drugs and recent history of hospitalization. No major differences in the findings were observed between the two cultural groups. The results should be treated with caution due to the cross-sectional design and other methodological limitations of the study.
本研究使用了来自1994/95年加拿大全国人口健康调查（NPHS）的横断面数据。该研究的目的是检验一般人群中几个已确定的健康状况相关因素与健康效用指数（HUI）之间的关系，HUI是一种基于偏好的多维健康状况测量方法。对说英语的受访者（n = 9853）和说法语的受访者（n = 1519）分别进行了分析。该指数与健康状况自评和功能残疾密切相关，并根据年龄、性别和收入呈现出预期的变化。正如所预测的那样，被归类为不同慢性病类别的受试者报告了不同的健康水平。HUI还与药物使用和近期住院史有关。在两个文化群体之间未观察到研究结果的重大差异。由于该研究的横断面设计和其他方法学局限性，对结果应谨慎对待。
