McHorney C A
Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School, USA.
Gerontologist. 1996 Oct;36(5):571-83. doi: 10.1093/geront/36.5.571.
In the last eight years, there has been a notable increase in the number of gerontological studies that use traditional measures of functional status in tandem with generic health status measures. This article describes practical and methodological issues in using generic measures of health status with elderly persons. One of the generic instruments used to illustrate these issues is the SF-36 Health Survey. Selection of generic measures for use in gerontological research or cross-age life-course studies involves choosing the right horse for the right course, and multiple considerations must be weighed. Of equal importance to practical and psychometric considerations is the correspondence between the conceptual framework of the investigation and the conceptualization of health embodied in candidate measurement tools.
在过去八年中，使用传统功能状态测量方法并结合一般健康状况测量方法的老年学研究数量显著增加。本文描述了在对老年人使用一般健康状况测量方法时的实际问题和方法学问题。用于阐述这些问题的一种一般工具是SF-36健康调查。在老年学研究或跨年龄生命历程研究中选择一般测量方法，就如同为合适的赛道选合适的马，必须权衡多种因素。与实际和心理测量方面的考虑同等重要的是，调查的概念框架与候选测量工具中所体现的健康概念化之间的对应关系。
