Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics, University of Liège, Quartier Hôpital, Avenue Hippocrate 13, CHUB23, 4000, Liège, Belgium.
Division of Bone Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle Perret-Gentil 4, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland.
Aging Clin Exp Res. 2018 May;30(5):413-418. doi: 10.1007/s40520-017-0794-8. Epub 2017 Jun 29.
Musculoskeletal disorders affect morbidity, quality of life and mortality, and represent an increasing economic and societal burden in the context of population aging and increased life expectancy. Improvement of quality of life should be one of the priorities of any interventions to prevent and treat musculoskeletal disorders in the ageing population. Two main approaches, namely generic and disease-specific instruments, can be applied to measure health-related quality of life. Among the generic tools available in scientific literature, the short form 36 questionnaire (SF-36) and the Euroqol five item questionnaire (EQ-5D) are two of the most popular questionnaires used to quantify the health related quality of life in people with musculoskeletal disorders. However, because generic tools may not always be able to detect subtle effects of a specific condition on quality of life, a specific tool is highly valuable. Specific tools improve the ability to clinically characterize quality of life in subjects with a specific musculoskeletal disorder, as well as the capacity to assess changes over time in the QoL of these subjects. The recent development of specific tools should help to validate preventive and therapeutic interventions in this field.
肌肉骨骼疾病会影响发病率、生活质量和死亡率，并且在人口老龄化和预期寿命增加的背景下，给经济和社会带来了越来越大的负担。改善生活质量应该是预防和治疗老年人群肌肉骨骼疾病的任何干预措施的优先事项之一。有两种主要方法，即通用和特定疾病的工具，可以用来衡量与健康相关的生活质量。在科学文献中可用的通用工具中，简短形式 36 问卷（SF-36）和欧洲五维健康量表问卷（EQ-5D）是用于量化肌肉骨骼疾病患者健康相关生活质量的最常用问卷之一。然而，由于通用工具并不总是能够检测到特定疾病对生活质量的细微影响，因此特定工具具有很高的价值。特定工具提高了在患有特定肌肉骨骼疾病的受试者中临床描述生活质量的能力，以及评估这些受试者的生活质量随时间变化的能力。特定工具的最新发展应该有助于验证该领域的预防和治疗干预措施。
