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- Title
The clinical significance of adaptation to changing health: a meta-analysis of response shift.
- Authors
Schwartz, Carolyn E; Bode, Rita; Repucci, Nicholas; Becker, Janine; Sprangers, Mirjam A G; Fayers, Peter M
- Abstract
When individuals experience changes in their health states, they may alter their internal standards, values, or conceptualization of quality of life (QOL). Such 'response shifts' can affect or distort QOL outcome measurement, which is of particular concern when evaluating medical or psychosocial interventions. Although clinicians and researchers acknowledge the occurrence of response shifts, little is known about the magnitude and clinical significance of those effects. To fill this gap in knowledge about response shift phenomena, we performed a meta-analysis on published QOL articles on response shift.
- Publication
Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 2006, Vol 15, Issue 9, p1533
- ISSN
0962-9343
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11136-006-0025-9