Preparation, reliability and validity of health status questionnaire

Objective To develop a set of health status questionnaire in line with health management demands for different physical examination receivers. Methods Based on literature review and clinical practice, sleep, pain, anxiety, depression, stress, fatigue, habits and social adaptation could be used as health items.An item database was set according to domestic or abroad established questionnaires.The items were screened to constitute our health status questionnaire.A total of 2866 individuals were randomly chosen to get the reliability or validity test. Results The correlation coefficient of single item with total score was 0.361-0.683.The Cronbach′ α of sub-scales was ≥0.945, the retested reliability coefficient of was ≥0.677, and split-half reliability coefficient was ≥0.835.Eight factors in exploratory factor analysis explained 69.37% of total variance.Confirmatory factor analysis showed high degree of fitting. Conclusion Our health status questionnaire has higher reliability and validity and can be used for health data collection. Key words: Health surveys; Evaluation studies; Reliability; Validity