Billington D Rex, Landon Jason, Krägeloh Christian U, Shepherd Daniel
NZ WHOQOL Group, Department of Psychology, AUT University, Private Bag 92006, Auckland 1142, New Zealand.
N Z Med J. 2010 May 28;123(1315):65-70.
With the approval of the World Health Organization (WHO), AUT University has established a new centre to develop and promote the use of the World Health Organization Quality of Life (WHOQOL) assessment instruments for health and health-related studies in New Zealand. The purpose of this paper is to introduce the NZ WHOQOL Group and to describe the structure and properties of the questionnaires in order to help the reader decide whether the instruments are suitable for their research and their use.
经世界卫生组织(WHO)批准,奥塔哥大学已设立一个新中心,用于开发和推广世界卫生组织生活质量(WHOQOL)评估工具,以用于新西兰的健康及与健康相关的研究。本文旨在介绍新西兰WHOQOL研究小组,并描述调查问卷的结构和特性,以帮助读者确定这些工具是否适用于他们的研究及使用。