July 1, 2005Nursing Research
Testing the Psychometric Properties of the Minnesota Living With Heart Failure Questionnaire
Population
638 patients with heart failure
Design
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Discussion
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Implication
Supports LHFQ reliability in HF; leaves open whether item deletion improves clinical utility.
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Population
638 patients with heart failure
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Intervention
Psychometric evaluation of the Minnesota Living With Heart Failure Questionnaire (LHFQ) before and after deletion of 5 items
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Outcome
Reliability, homogeneity, representativeness, discriminative ability, and construct validity of the LHFQpatient reported
The Minnesota Living With Heart Failure Questionnaire demonstrates acceptable reliability and validity, which can be further improved by deleting 5 problematic items.
Cite This Study
Heo et al. (2005) studied this question.