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Health Related Quality of Life in a Dutch Rehabilitation Population: Reference Values and the Effect of Physical Activity

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  • Leonie A Krops
  • Eva A Jaarsma
  • Pieter U Dijkstra
  • Jan H B Geertzen
  • Rienk Dekker

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Purpose: To establish reference values for Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in a Dutch rehabilitation population, and to study effects of patient characteristics, diagnosis and physical activity on HRQoL in this population. Method: Former rehabilitation patients (3169) were asked to fill in a questionnaire including the Dutch version of the RAND-36. Differences between our rehabilitation patients and Dutch reference values were analyzed (t-tests). Effects of patient characteristics, diagnosis and movement intensity on scores on the subscales of the RAND-36 were analyzed using block wise multiple regression analyses. Results: In total 1223 patients (39%) returned the questionnaire. HRQoL was significantly poorer in the rehabilitation patients compared to Dutch reference values on all subscales (p

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  • Leonie A Krops & Eva A Jaarsma & Pieter U Dijkstra & Jan H B Geertzen & Rienk Dekker, 2017. "Health Related Quality of Life in a Dutch Rehabilitation Population: Reference Values and the Effect of Physical Activity," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(1), pages 1-16, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0169169
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169169
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