Author(s)
Purpose
- Pathology:
Generic
- Disease:
All
- Objective:
To measure health-related quality of life and its utility, and to evaluate the efficacy/effectiveness of health interventions
- Population for intended use:
Adult
[ 16+ years ]
Characteristics
- Type of instrument:
Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)
Utility
- Administration mode:
Interviewer-administered
Proxy-rated
Self-administered
[ The questionnaire is designed to be self-administered. However, if wanted or required, it could be interviewer-administered or proxy-rated ]
- Number of items:
15
- Recall/Observation period:
Present health status
Language(s)
- Original language:
Finnish for Finland
- List of existing translations:
The translations listed below may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process and may require further work to be suitable for use in a study.
This list of translations is subject to constant changes, therefore please check the status of translations with MAPI Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors.
15D©
| Arabic | English for the UK | Icelandic | Russian for Russia |
| Bulgarian | Estonian | Italian for Italy | Serbian |
| Catalan | French for France | Japanese for Japan | Spanish for Spain |
| Chinese | German for Germany | Lithuanian | Swahili |
| Czech | Greek | Norwegian for Norway | Swedish for Sweden |
| Danish for Denmark | Hebrew | Polish for Poland | Turkish for Turkey |
Bibliographic reference(s) of the original questionnaire
Sintonen H. The 15D instrument of health-related quality of life: properties and applications. Ann Med. 2001 Jul;33(5):328-36. Review (PubMed abstract)
Sintonen H. The 15D-measure of health-related quality of life. II. Feasibility, reliability and validity of its valuation sys-tem. National Centre for Health Program Evaluation, Working Paper 42, Melbourne 1995 (Full text)
Sintonen H. The 15D-measure of health-related quality of life. I. Reliability, validity and sensitivity of its health state descriptive system. National Centre for Health Program Evaluation, Working Paper 41, Melbourne 1994 (Full text)
Last update: March 2012
Last update in collaboration with the author: October 2005
Based on the 15D, a version has also been developed for adolescents aged 12-15 years (16D) and for children aged 8-11 (17D)