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The quality of life (QOL) has been underscored by the increase in chronic diseases like metabolic syndrome and expanded life expectancy. Studies on QOL fundamentally aims to determine what is important in every individual, and to assess the concept of subjective QOL. For these reasons, QOL has been an important factor to oneself‘s needs to be objectively measured by respondents from the various aspects of life wherein these measurements are required in evaluating the value of the QOL. In this study, a measurement model was developed to assesses health-related quality of life (HRQL) objectively using basic data, instead of indicators obtained from the subjective evaluation of patients. Data used are based on EQ-5D, which is a widely used assessment tool in measuring HRQL. The proposed tool has a very high accuracy of 90.4 %,which will contribute to improving QOL by promoting the distribution of healthcare management resources as an indicator to assess QOL uniformly based on objective information.
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Yang, J., Lee, Y. Development of Measurement Model for the Value of QOL as an Influential Factor of Metabolic Syndrome. Wireless Pers Commun 79, 2639–2654 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11277-014-1843-7
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