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The U.S. National Health Interview Survey (HHIS) Public
Use Data files cover topics similar to some of those
employed by the Quality of Well-being Scale (QWB) instrument.
The QWB develops a single, overall expression of Well-being
on a scale running from 0.0 (for death) to 1.0 (for
asymptomatic full function). The NHIS Public Use Data,
however, produces no single overall score, but frequencies
in each of several different categories of dysfunction.
The Quality of Well-being Scale, Extended #1 (QWBXI)
provides a single estimated QWB-like score for each
individual in the NHIS survey, derived from the NHIS
data.
The QWBX1 score might be used, after matching by case
ID# with other NHIS data files, to estimate the burden
of particular diseases or conditions on the U.S. population.
Other uses are quite possible. Estimated QWBX1 scores
have currently been generated for the years 1982-1994
and are available by individual year or groups of years.
CASE NUMBER: SD2000-826
INQUIRIES TO: invent@ucsd.edu
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