Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Evaluating the reliability, validity and minimally important difference of the Taiwanese version of the diabetes quality of life (DQOL) measurement | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Open Access Evaluating the reliability validity and minimally important difference of the Taiwanese version of the diabetes quality of life DQOL measurement I-Chan Huang 1 Jung-Hua Liu1 Albert W Wu2 3 Ming-Yen Wu4 Walter Leite5 and Chyng-Chuang Hwang4 Address Department of Epidemiology and Health Policy Research College of Medicine University of Florida Gainesville FL USA 2Department of Health Policy and Management Bloomberg School of Public Health Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD USA 3Department of Medicine School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University Baltimore MD USA 4Tainan Hospital Department of Health Tainan Taiwan and 5Department of Educational Psychology College of Education University of Florida Gainesville FL USA Email I-Chan Huang - ichuang@ Jung-Hua Liu-jhliu1115@ Albert WWu- awu@ Ming- Yen Wu - mingyenwu@ Walter Leite - Chyng-Chuang Hwang - Corresponding author Published 28 October 2008 Received 20 March 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008 6 87 doi 1477-7525-6-87 Accepted 28 October 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 87 2008 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 Few diabetes HRQOL instruments are available in Chinese language. We tested psychometric properties of a Diabetes Quality of Life DQOL in Chinese language for diabetes patients in Taiwan and estimated its minimally important differences MIDs . Methods Data were collected from 337 patients treated in diabetes clinics of a Taiwan teaching hospital. Pearson s correlations among domain scores of the DQOL satisfaction .
