Testing psychometric properties of the three short versions for the WHOQOL-OLD Module in Turkish national data pool

Abstract

Aims: This study was conducted to investigate the psychometric properties of the three short versions of the Turkish WHOQOL-OLD proposed by Fang et al. in 2012. Methods: The Turkish WHOQOLOLD data pool (collected between 2005- 2012) consisting of 2408 older adults were analysed. Fang J. et al proposed 3 short versions. Version 1 consisting of items 6, 11, 12, 16, 20 ve 21 ; version 2 items as 2, 6 ,11, 12, 17 ve 22 and version 3 items as 4, 6, 17, 19, 20 ve 24. Internal consistency, construct validity and Criterion validity analyses wer conducted. SPSS version 22 and Lisrel version 8.05 were used in the analyses. Results: The mean age was 73.51 ± 6.60 years. 50.8% was male and %40.9% was illiterate. The meanscores for versions 1, 2 and 3 were: 60,9 ± 14.8 (v1); 59,7 ± 11.6 (v2) and 60,2 ± 14.4 (v3) respectivey