Minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire heart failure health related quality of life factor analysis rasch analysis psychometric properties background heart failure hf is one of the most important health problems in terms of prevalence morbidity mortality and health service use 1.
Minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire form pdf.
The united states food drug administration fda has approved the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq as a medical device development tool mddt for use in controlled clinical trials designed to test superiority or non inferiority of medical devices in support of regulatory submissions.
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A short version kccq 12 with 12 items is.
However there are some concerns about its factor structure and alternatives have been proposed some including a third factor.
The minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq is one of the most widely used health related quality of life questionnaires for patients with heart failure hf.
The most frequently used questionnaires are the chronic heart failure questionnaire the kansas city cardiomyopathy questionnaire and the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq.
1987 patients self assessment of their congestive heart failure.
Specifically for use in heart failure ie the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq 9 the quality of life questionnaire for severe heart failure 10 the chronic heart failure questionnaire 11 the kansas city cardiomyopathy questionnaire 12 and the left ventricular dysfunction questionnaire 13 the most.
It provides scores for two dimensions physical and emotional and a total score.
The minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq is a reliable and valid patient oriented measure of the adverse effects of heart failure on a patient s life.
11 10 04 minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire the following questions ask how much your heart failure heart condition affected your life during the past month 4 weeks.
Content reliability and validity of a new measure the minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire.
Half of the 21 item minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq response categories are labeled 0 no 1 very little 5 very much and half are not 2 3 and 4.
Minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire mlhfq 21 items in 3 domains and is validated for those with heart failure rector ts kubo sh cohn jn 1987 asadi lari m rao a gray d 2005 kansas city cardiomyopathy questionnaire kccq has 23 items green cp porter cb bresnahan dr et al 2000.
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