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The SF-12® Health Survey (SF-12) (Ware, Kosinski, & Keller, 1996) is a 12-item questionnaire used to assess generic health outcomes from the patient’s perspective. Generic patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures like the SF-12 assess general health and well-being [or health-related quality of life (HRQOL)], including the impact of any and all illnesses on a broad range of functional domains. The SF-12 consists of a subset of 12 items from the SF-36® Health Survey (SF-36) (Ware & Sherbourne, 1992; Ware, Snow, Kosinski, & Gandek, 1993) covering the same eight domains of health outcomes, including physical functioning (PF), role-physical (RP), bodily pain (BP), general health (GH), vitality (VT), social functioning (SF), role-emotional (RE), and mental health (MH). Version 2 of the SF-36 (Ware et al., 2007, 2008) and SF-12 (Ware, Kosinski, Turner-Bowker, & Gandek, 2002) measures the same domains but contains improvements in wording and response choices to...
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Turner-Bowker, D., Hogue, S.J. (2014). Short Form 12 Health Survey (SF-12). In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_2698
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