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Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI)

 
Versions for children (CDLQI) and for family (FDLQI) exist also
 

Author(s)

 

Purpose

  • Pathology:

Skin and connective tissue diseases

  • Disease:

Generic for skin and connective tissue diseases

  • Objective:

To measure the Quality of Life of dermatology patients and to be used as an outcome measure in health services research

  • Population for intended use:

Adult

[ over the age of 15 ]

 
 

Characteristics

  • Type of instrument:

Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)

  • Administration mode:

Self-administered

  • Number of items:

10

  • Recall/Observation period:

The last week

 
 

Language(s)

  • Original language:

English for the UK

  • 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.

DLQI

Afrikaans French for France* Mandarin for China Spanish for North America
Amharic French for Switzerland Mandarin for Taiwan* Spanish for Panama
Arabic German for Austria Marathi Spanish for Peru
Arabic for Algeria German for Germany* Nepalese Spanish for Spain
Arabic for Morocco German for Switzerland Norwegian for Norway Spanish for Uruguay
Arabic for Tunisia Greek Oriya Spanish for Venezuela
Bulgarian Gujarati Polish for Poland Swedish for Sweden
Cantonese Hebrew Portuguese for Brazil Tamil
Croatian Hindi for India Portuguese for Portugal Telugu
Czech Hungarian Punjabi Thai
Danish for Denmark* Icelandic Romanian Turkish for Turkey
Dutch for the Netherlands* Italian for Italy Russian for Russia Ukrainian*
English for Nigeria Japanese for Japan Serbian Urdu
English for the USA Kannada Sinhalese for Sri Lanka Vietnamese
Estonian* Korean* Slovak Welsh
Farsi Latvian* Spanish for Argentina Xhosa
Finnish for Finland* Lithuanian* Spanish for Chile Yoruba
French for Belgium Malay for Singapore Spanish for Guatemala Zulu
French for Canada Malayalam Spanish for Mexico

Cartoon version

Afrikaans
Dutch for the Netherlands
English for the UK
German for Germany
Japanese for Japan
Thai

* Performed by the MAPI Institute

Note: The Spanish for North America translation refers to USA and Canada.

 

Bibliographic reference(s) of the original questionnaire

Last update: April 2012

Last update in collaboration with the author: July 2011