Table 7.
Ready Reckoner for the short-listed general health/quality of life persistent pain assessment measures
| NHP | SF-36 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Validity | Face | ✓ | ✓ |
| Content | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Construct | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Comparison | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Sensitivity | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Factors | 5 | 9 | |
| Reliability | Inter-tester | ✓ | ✓ |
| Intra-tester | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Test–retest | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Internal | |||
| Consistency | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Simple instructions, short, simply worded items | ✓ | ✓ | |
| <20 items | |||
| Number of items | 38 | 36 | |
| Able to be scored manually | |||
| <15 minutes administration time | ✓ | ||
| Estimated average time to administer | 10 | 20 | |
| Norms | ✓ | ✓ | |
| Cut off scores | |||
| Specific to NZ | ✓ | ||
| No cost | |||
| No registration/limitations | |||
| Total score | 12 | 12 |
Abbreviations: NHP, Nothngham Health Profile; SF-36, Short Form Health Survey-36.