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SF-8 Health Survey

The SF-8 is an ultra-brief, 8-item version of the SF-36 health survey developed by Ware and colleagues in 2005. Designed for extreme time-constraint settings and large-scale epidemiological surveys, the SF-8 maintains strong correlation with SF-36 and SF-12 domains while requiring only 1–2 minutes to complete.

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Short Form 8-Item Health Survey
Taxonomic method record · process-pipeline / health-measurement
  • Ware, J. E., Kosinski, M., Dewey, J. E., & Gandek, B. (2005). How to score and interpret single-item health status measures: a manual for users of the SF-8 Health Survey. QualityMetric Inc. · URL
  • Ware, J. E., & Kosinski, M. (2001). The SF-8 Health Survey vs. the SF-12 Health Survey for the assessment of health-related quality of life. Quality of Life Newsletter, 27, 3–4. · URL
  • Jenkinson, C., Chandola, T., Stafford, M., & Marmot, M. (2005). The Whitehall II Study: the short Form 8 health survey questionnaire (SF-8): psychometric properties and normative data for the general population. Journal of Public Health Medicine, 27(1), 65–71. · URL
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Taxonomic bucketEQ-5Dmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyPROMISmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketSF-12 Health Surveymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketSF-36 Health Surveymachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Taxonomic bucketWHOQOL-BREFmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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