Lai et al. (2005): study TW 2000
Publication
- Author(s):
- Lai, K.L.; Lee, H.S.; Tzeng, R.J.; Wang, B.L.
- Title:
- Health Related Quality of Life and Health Utility for the Institutional Elderly in Taiwan.
- Source:
- Quality of Life Research, 2005, Vol. 14, 1169 - 1180
Investigation
- Public
- Elderly living in long-term care settings, Taiwan 2000
- Sample
- Probability simple random sample
- Respondents
- N = 465
- Non Response
- 9%
- Assessment
- Interview: face-to-face
Happiness Measure(s) and Distributional Findings
- Full text:
-
Self report on single question:
We ask you to think about your life in the last two weeks…..
How would you rate your quality of life?
1 very poor
2 poor
3 neither poor nor good
4 good
5 very good
Item 1 in WHOQOL-Bref - Classification:
- O-QOL-cw-sq-v-5-c
- Author's label:
- Overall Quality of Life
- Remarks:
- Median : 3; Mode :3.
- Page in publication:
- 1173
- Observed distribution
- Summary Statistics
- On original range 1 - 5 On range 0-10
- Mean:
- 3.38 -
- SD:
- 0.73 -