RT journal article
T1 Analysis of Structural Characteristics and Psychometric Properties of the SarQoL® Questionnaire in Different Languages: A Systematic Review
A1 Martínez-Fernández, María Visitación
A1 Sandoval-Hernández, Irene
A1 Galán Mercant, Alejandro
A1 González-Sánchez, Manuel
A1 Martínez-Cal, Jesús
A1 Molina Torres, Guadalupe
A2 Enfermería y Fisioterapia
K1 sarcopenia
K1 quality of life
K1 validation
K1 questionnaire
K1 cross-cultural adaptation
K1 older adult
K1 aging
AB Background: Sarcopenia is the gradual and global loss of muscle and its functions. Primary sarcopenia is associated with the typical changes of advanced aging and affects approximately 5-10% of the population. The Sarcopenia and Quality of Life (SarQoL (R)) questionnaire is composed of 55 items, 22 questions, and is organized into seven domains of quality of life. The main objective of this systematic review was to analyze the structural characteristics and psychometric properties of it, as well as to classify its measurement properties, its methodological quality, and the criteria as good measurement properties of the adaptations and validations made on the SarQoL (R) questionnaire in different languages. Methods: A systematic review was carried out in the PUBMED, Web of Science, Cinahl, LatinIndex, and SCOPUS databases. The keywords used were: "SarQoL", "assessment", "sarcopenia", "geriatric", "PROM", "quality of life", and "questionnaire", using the Boolean operator "AND". All articles published up to 15 January 2022 were considered. Methodological quality and psychometric properties were assessed based on the COSMIN guidelines and the guidelines and general recommendations of PRISMA. Documents published in languages other than English were excluded, as well as versions of the SarQoL (R) published in the form abstracts for conferences when the full text was not available. Results: A total of 133 articles were identified, 14 of which were included. The evaluated questionnaires and the structural characteristics and psychometric properties of each of them were collected. Conclusion: The different cross-cultural versions of the questionnaire showed good basic structural and psychometric characteristics for the evaluation of patients with sarcopenia.
PB MDPI
SN 1660-4601
YR 2022
FD 2022-04
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/27005
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/27005
LA eng
NO This research and the APC was partial funded by the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnership for Higher Education Program (Key Action 203), grant number 2018-1-PL01-KA203-051055. On the other hand, one of the authors of the study (J.M.-C.) has received a predoctoral grant from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (FPU17/01109).
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 09-nov-2026