Main Outcome Measure: Changes in the factor-derived variables optimism-sociability, tiredness-fatigue, anger-aggression, bodily discomfort, and items constituting bodily discomfort were compared between groups.
The theoretical model of the SF-36 assumes that the Physical Functioning (10 items), Bodily Pain (2 items), and Role Physical (4 items) scales correlate strongly with the Physical Component and its summary measure (PCS).
By contrast, on SF-36 physical health items (" bodily pain", " general health" and " vitality") the second and third group scored significantly worse than reference values.
The SF-36v2 assesses different aspects of health represented in 8 scales: physical functioning (PF: 10 items), bodily pain (BP: 2 items), social functioning (SF: 2 items), mental health (MH: 5 items), general health (GH: 5 items), vitality (VT: 4 items), role physical (RP: 4 items), and role emotional (RE: 3 items) [ 16, 17].
The SF-36 health-status and quality-of-life measure consists of 8 scales measuring physical and mental health, including a bodily pain scale (2 items) and a physical functioning scale (10 items), each of which is scored from 0 (worst) to 100 (best) (Ware and Sherbourne 1992).
The factors reflected the following content: factor 1: emotional and bodily symptoms of depression (items 1, 2, 3, 9 and 10); factor 2: disability (items 11, 12 and 13); factor 3: digestive complaints (items 18 and 20); factor 4: lack of energy (items 7 and 19); and factor 5: loss of self esteem (items 15 and 16).
A new subscale of bodily discomfort contained 5 items were added to create the HFS-36.
Any pain, measured using the Bodily Pain and Discomfort items of the Child Health Questionnaire.
We added a new domain including 5 items for bodily discomfort, and an item in the stigma domain to HFS-30.
SF 36 items concerning bodily pain occurred in septic survivors significantly more frequently compared with the healthy normal population (49.4 ± 29.9; norm: 79.1 ± 27.4; P < 0.0001).
