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Current health as a general health indicator. II: Evaluation of reliability and validity
1Department of General Practice, Odense University, Denmark.
Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care
|March 1, 1995
Abstract
Objective:
To examine whether a Current Health scale produces reliable and valid measures of self perceived health status.
Design:
Examination of reliability, based on internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha coefficient). Examination of validity focusing on convergent and discriminant validity.
Subjects:
2263 male and female heads of households who participated in The Danish Health Study 1982-83. The survey used items pertaining to health status from Rand's Health Insurance Study.
Results:
The scale has acceptable properties and is preferable to a single item measure of general health status. It can be used in general practice.