The Short Health Scale: a valid and reliable measure of health related quality of life in English speaking inflammatory bowel disease patients.

Health related quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease is influenced both by disease activity as well as by the psychosocial characteristics of the individual patient. The Short Health Scale (SHS) is a four-part visual analogue scale questionnaire using open-ended questions that are designed to assess the impact of inflammatory bowel disease on a health related quality of life. The four dimensions include bowel symptoms, activities of daily life, worry and general wellbeing. It has previously been validated in Swedish and Norwegian speaking patients. To evaluate the SHS in an English speaking inflammatory bowel disease population. Four hundred and ninety Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis patients completed the SHS. Individual SHS items were correlated with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire (IBDQ) dimensions and with disease activity to assess validity. Test-retest reliability was assessed in 38 patients who completed the Short Health Scale two weeks apart. All four items correlated with corresponding IBDQ dimensions with correlation coefficients ranging from -0.66 to -0.74 (all p values<0.001). In addition, total SHS scores correlated with total IBDQ scores in both Crohn's disease (-0.836) and ulcerative colitis (0.797). There was a stepwise increase in Short Health Scale scores with increasing disease activity (all p values<0.001). Reliability was confirmed with test-retest correlations ranging from 0.70 to 0.89 (all p values<0.005). The Short Health Scale is a valid and reliable measure of health related quality of life in English speaking inflammatory bowel disease patients.

McDermott E ，Keegan D ，Byrne K ，Doherty GA ，Mulcahy HE ... -  《-》

Short health scale: A valid measure of health-related quality of life in Korean-speaking patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Park SK ，Ko BM ，Goong HJ ，Seo JY ，Lee SH ，Baek HL ，Lee MS ，Park DI ... -  《-》

Short Health Scale: a valid and reliable measure of quality of life in Dutch speaking patients with inflammatory bowel disease.

Coenen S ，Weyts E ，Geens P ，Vermeire S ，Ferrante M ，Vanhaecht K ，Van Assche G ... -  《-》

The Short Inflammatory Bowel Disease Questionnaire: a quality of life instrument for community physicians managing inflammatory bowel disease. CCRPT Investigators. Canadian Crohn's Relapse Prevention Trial.

Irvine EJ ，Zhou Q ，Thompson AK 《AMERICAN JOURNAL OF GASTROENTEROLOGY》

The Stressometer: A Simple, Valid, and Responsive Measure of Psychological Stress in Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients.

Psychological stress is associated with inflammatory bowel disease [IBD], but the nature of this relationship is complex. At present, there is no simple tool to screen for stress in IBD clinical practice or assess stress repeatedly in longitudinal studies. Our aim was to design a single-question 'stressometer' to rapidly measure stress and validate this in IBD patients. In all, 304 IBD patients completed a single-question 'stressometer'. This was correlated with stress as measured by the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales [DASS-21], quality of life, and disease activity. Test-retest reliability was assessed in 31 patients who completed the stressometer and the DASS-21 on two occasions 4 weeks apart. Stressometer levels correlated with the DASS-21 stress dimension in both Crohn's disease [CD] (Spearman's rank correlation coefficient [rs] 0.54; p < 0.001) and ulcerative colitis [UC] [rs 0.59; p < 0.001]. Stressometer levels were less closely associated with depression and anxiety [rs range 0.36 to 0.49; all p-values < 0.001]. Stressometer scores correlated with all four Short Health Scale quality of life dimensions in both CD and UC [rs range 0.35 to 0.48; all p-values < 0.001] and with disease activity in Crohn's disease [rs 0.46; p < 0.001] and ulcerative colitis [rs 0.20; p = 0.02]. Responsiveness was confirmed with a test-retest correlation of 0.43 [p = 0.02]. The stressometer is a simple, valid, and responsive measure of psychological stress in IBD patients and may be a useful patient-reported outcome measure in future IBD clinical and research assessments.

Keegan D ，Byrne K ，Cullen G ，Doherty GA ，Dooley B ，Mulcahy HE ... -  《-》