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There are generic instruments that evaluate measures of quality of life in general, with no link to a specific disease, and other instruments related to specific conditions [ 11- 14].
Both are generic instruments.
Both are generic instruments and thus are designed to measure a wider notion of HRQOL and are not specific to any one disease or condition.
The PROMIS® item banks for satisfaction with participation are generic instruments that capture participation and social functioning (differentiating between social roles (SR) and discretionary social activities (DSA)).
Finally, since the selected measures are generic instruments, we were not able to identify a set of common measures, including HIV-specific items, to be used for comparing across studies.
The Brief Symptom Inventory (BSI), Mood & Anxiety Symptom Questionnaire −30 (MASQ-D30), Short Form Health Survey 36 (SF-36), and Dimensional Assessment of Personality Pathology-Short Form (DAPP-SF) are generic instruments that can be used in Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) of patients with common mental disorders.
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Preference-based instruments (the Health Utility Index [ 4, 5], the EuroQol 5D (EQ-5D-3L) [ 6], or the Short Form 6D [ 7]) are generic instrument generating utilities that yield a measure that combines both the length and quality of life [ 8].
A total of 20 different instruments were used in the 13 studies; seven measured HRQOL, of which five were generic instruments, one was cancer specific and one was melanoma specific (Tables 2 and 3).
A main approach to measuring HRQOL is generic instrument, being the 12-item Health Survey (SF-12) and larger version (SF-36), the most widely used in health status studies involving the general population, as well as in studies with disease groups [ 34, 35].
Two others are generic HRQL instruments.
The EQ-5D and SF-12 are generic health instruments.
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