PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Nicole von Steinbuechel
AU  - Lindsay Wilson
AU  - Henning Gibbons
AU  - Holger Muehlan
AU  - Holger Schmidt
AU  - Silke Schmidt
AU  - Nadine Sasse
AU  - Sanna Koskinen
AU  - Jaana Sarajuuri
AU  - Stefan Höfer
AU  - Monika Bullinger
AU  - Andrew Maas
AU  - Edmund Neugebauer
AU  - Jane Powell
AU  - Klaus von Wild
AU  - George Zitnay
AU  - Wilbert Bakx
AU  - Anne-Lise Christensen
AU  - Rita Formisano
AU  - Graeme Hawthorne
AU  - Jean-Luc Truelle
TI  - QOLIBRI Overall Scale: a brief index of health-related quality of life after traumatic brain injury
AID  - 10.1136/jnnp-2012-302361
DP  - 2012 Nov 01
TA  - Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry
PG  - 1041--1047
VI  - 83
IP  - 11
4099  - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/83/11/1041.short
4100  - http://jnnp.bmj.com/content/83/11/1041.full
SO  - J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry2012 Nov 01; 83
AB  - Background The Quality of Life after Brain Injury (QOLIBRI) scale is a recently developed instrument that provides a profile of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in domains typically affected by brain injury. However, for global assessment it is desirable to have a brief summary measure. This study examined a 6-item QOLIBRI Overall Scale (QOLIBRI-OS), and considered whether it could provide an index of HRQoL after traumatic brain injury (TBI).Methods The properties of the QOLIBRI-OS were studied in a sample of 792 participants with TBI recruited from centres in nine countries covering six languages. An examination of construct validity was undertaken on a subsample of 153 participants recruited in Germany who had been assessed on two relevant brief quality of life measures, the Satisfaction With Life Scale and the Quality of Life Visual Analogue Scale.Results The reliability of the QOLIBRI-OS was good (Cronbach's α=0.86, test–retest reliability =0.81) and similar in participants with higher and lower cognitive performance. Factor analysis indicated that the scale is unidimensional. Rasch analysis also showed a satisfactory fit with this model. The QOLIBRI-OS correlates highly with the total score from the full QOLIBRI scale (r=0.87). Moderate to strong relationships were found among the QOLIBRI-OS and the Extended Glasgow Outcome Scale, Short-Form-36, and Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (r=0.54 to -0.76). The QOLIBRI-OS showed good construct validity in the TBI group.Conclusions The QOLIBRI-OS assesses a similar construct to the QOLIBRI total score and can be used as a brief index of HRQoL for TBI.