Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Validation of a Chinese version of disease specific quality of life scale (HFS-36) for hemifacial spasm in Taiwan | BioMed Central Health and Quality of Life Outcomes Research Open Access Validation of a Chinese version of disease specific quality of life scale HFS-36 for hemifacial spasm in Taiwan Yen-Chu Huang1 3 Jun-Yu Fan4 Long-Sun Ro2 3 Rong-Kuo Lyu2 3 Hong-Shiu Chang2 3 Sien-Tsong Chen2 3 Wen-Chuin Hsu2 3 Chiung-Mei Chen2 3 and Yih-Ru Wu 2 3 Address Department of Neurology Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Chiayi Taiwan 2Department of Neurology Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Linkou Taiwan 3Chang-Gung University College of Medicine Taipei Taiwan and 4Department of Nursing Chang Gung Institute of Technology Tao-Yuan Taiwan Email Yen-Chu Huang - deepblue@ Jun-Yu Fan - jyfan@ Long-Sun Ro - cgrols@ Rong-Kuo Lyu - lyu5172@ Hong-Shiu Chang - hschang@ Sien-Tsong Chen - chen0050@ Wen-Chuin Hsu - wenchuin@ Chiung-Mei Chen - cmchen@ Yih-Ru Wu - yihruwu@ Corresponding author Published 24 December 2009 Received 15 September 2009 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 104 doi l477-7525-7-104 Accepted 24 December 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 104 2009 Huang et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract_ Background and object There was no Chinese questionnaire to evaluate the health-related quality of life HRQoL in patients with hemifacial spasm HFS . In this study we aimed to validate a new disease-specific HRQoL scale for HFS HFS-36 in Chinese version and compared it to SF-36 a generic HRQoL scale. Patients and Methods The HFS-36 Chinese version was modified from English .
