Table 1.

Original development and validation studies for general questionnaires used in assessing functional status and/or HRQOL in symptomatic PAD patients.

Questionnaires	Authors & Year	Domains/Subscales	Items	† Scoring Range
1 SF-36	Ware & Sherbourne 19926 McHorney et al 1993113	8	36	0 to 100
2 SF-12	Ware et al 199628	8	12	0 to100
3 EuroQOL	EuroQOL-Group 199031 †† Brooks 199632	5	5	0 to 1
4 NHP	Hunt et al 198043 Hunt & McEwen 198042	7	45	100 to 0
5 WHOQOL-100	WHOQOL-Group 1994114 WHOQOL-Group 1994115	*6	100	**4 to 20
6 MHIQ	Chambers et al 1976116 Sackett et al 1977117 Chambers 1984118	3	59	0 to 1

^†Indicates worst to best.

^††Description for 5 dimension version.

^*Composed of 24 “facets” within the 6 quality of life domains.

^**Scoring for each “facet” or domain.

¹SF-36 = Short Form 36-item questionnaire;

²SF-12 = Short Form 12-item questionnaire;

³EuroQOL = European Quality of Life questionnaire;

⁴NHP = Nottingham Health Profile;

⁵WHOQOL-100 = World Health Organization Quality of Life assessment instrument 100;

⁶MHIQ = McMasters Health Index Questionnaire