Publication at Faculty of Medicine in Pilsen |
2017
Abstract
In the Czech environment, the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire has been rather frequently used for quality-of-life assessment in the case of different diseases or different health limitations. The questionnaire exists in two Czech translations with different wording.
The differences are so considerable that they might cause interpretation shifts in research based on this instrument. Also the reverse scales in three questions may cause problems, because processing of these scores is not described correctly in some methodological materials.
The authors recommend to strictly use the version published by Dragomirecká and Bartoňova of the Prague Psychiatric Centre.