Health-related Quality of Life in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease Measured with the Short Form-36: Psychometric Assessments and a Comparison with General Population Norms

Abstract

We have shown that HRQOL in a Norwegian population-based cohort of patients with IBD, measured with the SF-36, is lower than that of a Norwegian reference population. In general, the SF-36 was found to have satisfactory psychometric properties in this IBD population.