Quality of Life Scale, Flanagan (QOLS)
Overview
- Purpose
- Health outcomes appraisal
- Respondents
- Proxy
- Person with a Disability
- Administration Method
- Interview
- Administration Mode
- In-person
- Developer
- Flanagan
- Item Count
- 16
- Population
- Physical Disability
Instrument Domains
| Domain | Number of Items |
|---|---|
| Community Inclusion | 10 |
| Meaningful activity | 6 |
| Social connectedness and relationships | 4 |
| Employment | 0 |
| Resources and settings to facilitate inclusion | 0 |
| Transportation | 0 |
| Holistic Health and Functioning | 1 |
| Individual health and functioning | 1 |
| Health promotion and prevention | 0 |
| Caregiver Support | 0 |
| Access to resources | 0 |
| Family caregiver/natural support involvement | 0 |
| Family caregiver/natural support wellbeing | 0 |
| Training and skill-building | 0 |
| Choice and Control | 0 |
| Choice of services and supports | 0 |
| Personal choices and goals | 0 |
| Personal freedoms and dignity of risk | 0 |
| Self-direction | 0 |
| Consumer Leadership in System Development | 0 |
| Evidence of meaningful caregiver involvement | 0 |
| Evidence of meaningful consumer involvement | 0 |
| System supports meaningful consumer involvement | 0 |
| Equity | 0 |
| Availability | 0 |
| Equitable access and resource allocation | 0 |
| Transparency and consistency | 0 |
| Fluctuation of Need | 0 |
| Human and Legal Rights | 0 |
| Freedom from abuse and neglect | 0 |
| Informed decision-making | 0 |
| Optimizing the preservation of legal and human rights | 0 |
| Privacy | 0 |
| Supporting individuals in exercising their human and legal rights | 0 |
| Level of Caregiver Well-Being | 0 |
| Person-Centered Planning and Coordination | 0 |
| Assessment | 0 |
| Coordination | 0 |
| Person-centered planning | 0 |
| Service Delivery and Effectiveness | 0 |
| Delivery | 0 |
| Person's needs met and goals realized | 0 |
| System Performance and Accountability | 0 |
| Data management and use | 0 |
| Evidence-based practice | 0 |
| Financing and service delivery structures | 0 |
| Workforce | 0 |
| Adequately compensated with benefits | 0 |
| Culturally competent | 0 |
| Demonstrated competencies when appropriate | 0 |
| Person-centered approach to services | 0 |
| Safety of and respect for the worker | 0 |
| Staff Turnover | 0 |
| Sufficient workforce numbers dispersion and availability | 0 |
| Workforce engagement and participation | 0 |
Psychometric Citations
Burckhardt, C.S., Woods, S.L., Schultz, A.A., & Ziebarth, D.M. (1989). Quality of life of adults with chronic illness: A psychometric study. Research in Nursing and Health, 12(6), 347-354.
- Type of Publication
- Peer review
- Instrument Language
- English
- Sample: Age (Mean and Range)
Mean=60 years
- Sample: Age Group
18-64 Years, 65+ Years
- Sample: Countries/State
United States
- Sample: Disability Type
Not Reported
- Sample: Gender (%male)
34%
- Sample: Race/Ethnicity (%)
95% White
- Sample: Sampling Strategy
Not Reported
- Sample: Size
204
- Reliability: Internal Consistency
Cronbach's Alpha for Time 1 (ɑ=.89); Cronbach's Alpha for Time 2 (ɑ= .86); Cronbach's Alpha for Time 3 (ɑ= .87)
- Reliability: Test-retest
Test-retest correlation coefficient between Time 1 and Time 3 (r=.76); Test-retest correlation coefficient between Time 1 and Time 2 (r=.78); Test-retest correlation coefficient between Time 2 and Time 3 (r=.84)
- Validity: Construct (Convergent and Discriminant)
Discriminating groups; correlations with other measures ranged from -.66 to .73
- Study design
- Longitudinal
Burckhardt, C.S., & Anderson, K.L., Archenholtz, B., & Hagg, O. (2003). The Flanagan Quality of Life Scale: Evidence of Construct Validity. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes. http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/59
- Type of Publication
- Peer review
- Instrument Language
- English and Swedish
- Sample: Age (Mean and Range)
Mean=52.5 years
- Sample: Age Group
18-64 Years, 65+ Years
- Sample: Countries/State
United States, Sweden
- Sample: Disability Type
Not Reported
- Sample: Gender (%male)
28%
- Sample: Race/Ethnicity (%)
Not Reported
- Sample: Sampling Strategy
Not Reported
- Sample: Size
1241
- Validity: Construct (Convergent and Discriminant)
Twelve of the 16 items loaded consistently with the same items on three factors in all five exploratory analyses.
- Study design
- Cross-sectional
Bronzi de Souza, L. & Corrente, J. (2013). Evaluation of the Flanagan Quality of Life Scale for older adults. International Journal of Science Commerce and Humanities, 1(4), 10-20.
- Type of Publication
- Peer review
- Instrument Language
- Portuguese
- Sample: Age (Mean and Range)
Mean=72.1 years
- Sample: Age Group
18-64 Years, 65+ Years
- Sample: Countries/State
Brazil
- Sample: Disability Type
Age Related Disability, Other
- Sample: Gender (%male)
37% male
- Sample: Race/Ethnicity (%)
Not Reported
- Sample: Sampling Strategy
Not Reported/Unknown
- Sample: Size
365
- Validity: Construct (Convergent and Discriminant)
Exploratory factor analysis resulted in five factors with factor loadings > .50
- Study design
- Cross-sectional