The Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire
| Name of questionnaire | The Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire |
| Type of questionnaire-description | Designed to assess the health related quality of life of patients with heart failure in adults |
| Number of items | Multi-dimensional; 21 items |
| Number of domains & categories | 3 |
| Name of categories/domains | Physical, socio-economic and emotional/psychological aspects |
| Scaling of items | 6 point Likert scale (0-5); Sum of item responses for total and dimension scores |
| Scoring available: with permission or free | Sum of item responses for total and dimension scores |
| Test-retest reproducibility | Yes |
| Internal consistency | Yes, Cronbach α = 0.94 |
| Validity | Yes, correlated with other scales and instruments (SF-36, 6MWT, NYHA Class) |
| Language | English |
| Translations in other languages (if yes, then list the languages) | Over 30 other languages |
| Developer name | Thomas Rector |
| Developer contact information | info@mlhfq.org |
| Availability of questionnaire: needs permission from developer, cost or freely available | License Agreement and fee required by Univerisy of Minnesota. Contact info@mlhfg.org for more information |
| References (including original publication) | Rector TS, Kubo, Cohn JN. 1987 Patients' self-assessment of their congestive heart failure. Part 2: Content, reliability and validity of a new measure, the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire. Heart Failure, Oct/Nov: 198-209 |
| Limitations | Cost |
| Link to the questionnaire (if available) | www.mlhfq.org |
| Other comments | Self-administered questionnaire; easy to administer, short and easily understood |
