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Ane Søndergaard Thomsen1, Per Bech2
1a Department of Communication and Psychology , Center for Developmental & Applied Psychological Science (CeDAPS), Aalborg University , Aalborg Ø, Denmark.
Background:
The WHOQOL-BREF is widely used to measure quality of life.
Aims:
The goal of the present study was to use the questionnaire in a doctoral study.
Methods:
We studied all the instructions provided by the WHO.
Results:
In the Danish version of the WHOQOL-BREF there is a discrepancy between the negatively phrased question 9 and both the syntax file and the verbal instructions for coding the data provided by the WHO.
Conclusions:
This is a notification of possible error interpretations in projects that use the questionnaire. This could be corrected by manual correction in the coding process or by changing the negatively phrased question 9.
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