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Can J Public Health. 2009 Nov-Dec;100(6):449-52. doi: 10.1007/BF03404342.
Normative data for the SF-36 measure of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) exist for those over 25 years of age, based on data from the population-based Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos). CaMos recently recruited a sample of young Canadians aged between 16 and 24 years. The purpose of this study was to develop normative SF-36 data for this age group.
After direct standardization to the Canadian population, means, standard deviations (SD), 95% confidence intervals and percentage at floor and ceiling were produced for the eight domain and two summary scores of the SF-36. Domains are scored from 0 (poor) to 100 (excellent). Summary scores are standardized to a mean of 50, with scores over 50 representing better than average and below 50 poorer than average function. Separate analyses were completed for men and women, and for those 16-19 years and 20-24 years.
The 1,001 community-based participants consisted of 474 men and 527 women from nine CaMos centres across Canada. Mean Physical Component Summary scores were 53.9 (SD = 6.9) and 53.3 (SD = 5.7) for young men and women, respectively. The equivalent Mental Component Summary scores were 49.3 (SD = 9.7) and 48.8 (SD = 8.9). In general, men scored somewhat higher than women, and younger (16-19 years) women scored higher than older (20-24 years) women, although the differences were small.
HRQOL is good in this cohort of young Canadians. Both men and women scored somewhat better on physically than mentally oriented domains. In general, Canadian scores were similar to those of the US, while a comparable Swedish sample scored higher than both countries on most domains. Results underscore the importance of taking country, age and gender into consideration when using normative data.
基于基于人群的加拿大骨质疏松症多中心研究（CaMos）的数据，为 25 岁以上人群制定了健康相关生活质量（HRQOL）SF-36 量表的常模数据。CaMos 最近招募了一组年龄在 16 至 24 岁之间的年轻加拿大人。本研究的目的是为该年龄组制定 SF-36 的常模数据。
经过加拿大人口的直接标准化后，产生了 SF-36 的八个领域和两个综合评分的平均值、标准差（SD）、95%置信区间以及处于下限和上限的百分比。领域的评分范围从 0（差）到 100（优）。综合评分标准化为平均 50，得分高于 50 表示优于平均水平，低于 50 表示低于平均水平。分别对男性和女性以及 16-19 岁和 20-24 岁的人群进行了分析。
这项基于人群的研究共纳入了 1001 名参与者，他们来自加拿大 9 个 CaMos 中心的社区，其中包括 474 名男性和 527 名女性。年轻男性和女性的生理成分综合评分分别为 53.9（SD=6.9）和 53.3（SD=5.7）。相应的心理成分综合评分分别为 49.3（SD=9.7）和 48.8（SD=8.9）。总体而言，男性的得分略高于女性，而较年轻（16-19 岁）的女性的得分高于较年长（20-24 岁）的女性，但差异较小。
在这一年轻的加拿大人群中，HRQOL 良好。男性和女性在身体导向的领域的得分都略高于心理导向的领域。总体而言，加拿大的评分与美国的评分相似，而瑞典的可比样本在大多数领域的评分均高于这两个国家。这些结果强调了在使用常模数据时，考虑国家、年龄和性别非常重要。
