Dementia

Dementia Quality of Life Questionnaire (DQoL)

Copyright: Mery Brod, The Brod Group

Disease / Condition: dementia

Population, Age: adult

Type of Clinical Outcome Assessment: PRO, administered by interviewer

Outcome assessed: health-related quality of life

  • Domains (n=5): Self esteem, Positive Affect/Humor, Absence of Negative Affect, Feelings of Belonging, and Sense of Aesthetics
    Number of items: 29, plus one optional item (#30) to assess Overall Quality of Life
    Recall: recently
    Language of Development: US English

    1. Brod M, Stewart AL, Sands L, Walton P. Conceptualization and measurement of quality of life in dementia: the dementia quality of life instrument (DQoL). Gerontologist. 1999 Feb;39(1):25-35. doi: 10.1093/geront/39.1.25.

    2. Lucas-Carrasco R, Gómez-Benito J, Rejas J, Brod M. The Spanish version of the dementia quality of life questionnaire: a validation study. Aging Ment Health. 2011 May;15(4):482-9. doi: 10.1080/13607863.2010.543658.

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    English-Australia
    English-Canada
    English-UK
    French-Canada
    French-France
    German-Germany
    Italian-Italy
    Korean-Korea
    Polish-Poland
    Spanish-Spain
    Spanish-US
    Swedish-Sweden

For more information on this measure, for use and/or licensing, contact Dr. Brod at (+1) 415 381 5532 or at mbrod@thebrodgroup.net or by filling out the CONTACT FORM.