A lack of information on external validity items and well-defined outcomes can lead to difficulties in extrapolating the results of a study to other MO-patients with forearm deformities.
The FACT-G measures quality of life, evaluating 28 items across four domains: physical well being (7 items); social/family well-being (7 items); emotional well-being (5 items); and functional well-being (7 items).
The FACT-G version 4 questionnaire includes the following four subscales: physical well-being (PWB; seven items), social/family well-being (seven items), emotional well-being (six items) and functional well-being (FWB; seven items).
The MHC-SF is a 14-item questionnaire that measures three dimension of positive mental health [ 30]: emotional well-being (3 items), psychological well-being (6 items), and social well-being (5 items).
The fourth version of FACT-G consists of 27 Likert-type questions covering four domains: physical well-being (PWB, 7 items), social/family well-being (SWB, 7 items), emotional well-being (EWB, 6 items), and functional well-being (FWB, 7 items) [ 11].
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The four sub-scales were thus divided: oral symptoms (6 items), functional symptoms (9 items), emotional well-being (9 items), and social well-being symptoms (13 items).
Negative Well-being subscale items and Positive Well-being subscale items are summed to produce two subscale scores (range 0 – 12) where a higher score reflects more negative or positive well-being respectively.
The following subscale scores were created by summing the responses to conceptually based, discrete subsets of items: oral symptoms domain - 6 items; functional limitations domain - 8 items; emotional well-being domain – 7 items; and social well-being domain – 10 items.
There are three subscales of four items each: Negative Well-being (all negatively worded items), Energy (two positively worded and two negatively worded items) and Positive Well-being (all positively worded).
