Health Related Quality of life

Health related quality of life is a multidimensional construct representing the broad concepts of individual patient opinions about their physical, psychological and social functioning. It is best suited for general epidemiological studies that investigate global health, combined with the nuances of diseases as seen in diabetes, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, pregnancy,  cancer and other large scale disease that impact quality of life.

the foot health status questionnaire

A focused region specific patient reported health status measure (PROM) of foot health quality of life designed in the shadow of generic HRQoL measures.

To improve precision of data and reduce unnecessary information collection, the FHSQ has a more specific focus on the domains of foot pain, movement capacity base and biomechanical foot function, patients footwear needs and a domain of  patients self perception and emotions/feelings about their foot health.

The self perception domain captures a wholistic sense of why patient present for clinical care. Patients may respond in part to treatment and have unresolved global health issues about what they think will happen, have trouble understanding instructions, or don’t follow recommended treatment. These issues have been shown to impact patient’s health and diminish treatment effectiveness and need to be noticed by the clinician, which is why this domain is included.

General foot relate quality of life cannot not be over emphasised. It’s the gap between what the clinician do and can do better. Its not just about “pain and function”, but about how we connect meaningfully with patients about their lives.

THE iCONNECT VERSION

A secure cloud based version of the FHSQ with several new clinical indices based on clinimetric theory guide daily practice. The system contains international reference ranges, library of conditions, short and longer term measures of treatment impact and educational resources.

All data is produced by patients making it a truly patient centred test.