Measuring quality of life in back patients: Comparison of health status questionnaire 2.0 and quality of life inventory

This paper is a reliability and validity test of the Health Status Question naire (HSQ)! 2.0. In addition, the Quality of Life Inventory (QOLI) is comp ared with the HSQ 2.0 to assess concurrent validity. The study is unique be cause these instruments are assessed for the first time using a sample of c hronic back patients. Practitioners will therefore now be able to evaluate important quality of life issues and treatment changes in this population. The HSQ 2.0 was generally found to be valid for these patients. However, tw o scale domains were not differentiated due to unique characteristics of sp inal disease patients. The QOLI, due to the limitation of measuring only ps ychological wellbeing, did not measure problems specific to back patients.