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The Sickness Impact Profile (SIP) is a valid health status measure that effectively discriminates among patients with different types and severities of sickness and correlates with clinical and self-assessments. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To validate the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP) as a reliable measure of health status in patients with various sicknesses.

January 1, 1976Medical Care

The Sickness Impact Profile: Validation of a Health Status Measure

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MBMarilyn BergnerMartin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg RBRuth A. BobbittOregon National Primate Research Center WPWilliam E. PollardNorthwestern University

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Randomized trial validates health status measure in diverse sickness samples, suggesting its utility in healthcare outcomes.

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To validate the Sickness Impact Profile (SIP) as a reliable measure of health status in patients with various sicknesses.
Preliminary study conducted with 278 subjects grouped by sickness type and severity.
Utilized self-assessment, clinician assessment, and dysfunction measures as criteria for validation.
Examined correlations between SIP scores and criteria to establish SIP validity.
SIP scores effectively discriminated among different subsamples based on sickness.
Strong correlations between clinician assessments and SIP scores provided supportive validity evidence.
Suggestions made for improving criterion measures to enhance the constructs assessed by the SIP.

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Bergner et al. (1976) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0788ce5ca7144909c641d8 https://doi.org/10.1097/00005650-197601000-00006

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