Chronic Heart Failure Questionnaire (CHFQ)
Name of questionnaire | Chronic Heart Failure Questionnaire (CHFQ) |
Type of questionnaire-description | Designed to assess ongitudinal change over time of patients with chronic heart disease or heart failure. |
Number of items | Multi-dimensional, 20 items |
Number of domains & categories | 3 domains |
Name of categories/domains | Dyspnoea, fatigue, emotional function |
Scaling of items | Likert scale (7 point) |
Scoring available: with permission or free | With permission |
Test-retest reproducibility | Yes |
Internal consistency | Yes (alpha=0.83-0.95) |
Validity | Yes |
Language | English |
Translations in other languages (if yes, then list the languages) | Yes, Chinese |
Developer name | G Guyatt et al. |
Developer contact information | Mapi Research Trust http://www.mapi-trust.org/services/questionnairelicensing/catalog-questionnaires/65-irls |
Availability of questionnaire: needs permission from developer, cost or freely available | Needs permission from McMaster University; contact http://milo.mcmaster.ca/questionnaires/questionnaires |
References (including original publication) | Guyatt GH, Nogradi S, Halcrow S, Singer J, Sullivan M, Fallen EL. 1989 Development and testing of a new measure of health status for clinical trials in heart failure. Journal if General Internal medicine, 4(2), 101-107 ; Guyatt G., Sullivan M., Fallen E., Tihal H., Rideout E., Halcrow S., et al. A controlled trial of digoxin in congestive heart failure. Am J Cardiol 1988;61(4):371-375 |
Other References | Review of all Heart failure QOL questionnaires- Garin O, Ferrer M, Pont A, Rue M, Kotseva A, Wiklund I, VanGanse E, Alonso J. 2009 Disease-specific health-related quality of life questionnaires for heart failure: a systematic review with meta-analyses. Qual Life Res 2009 18:71-85 |
Limitations | Interviewer administered |
Comments | Interviewer administered; sensitive to patients with different severities of CHF. |
Link to Questionaire | http://milo.mcmaster.ca/questionnaires/questionnaires |