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Bianca Macêdo de Alencar1, Israel Souza2, Katia Nunes Sá3Exploratory Study • March 27th, 2017
ABSTRACT | Introduction: Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) is an important outcome measure to investigate and monitor patients with chronic diseases. In order to achieve such goal, it is essential to choose an appropriate tool to evaluate the peculiarities of each population. Instruments to investigate HRQoL, NHP and SF-36 are alike in several aspects and are considered by the scientific community as interchangeable amongst each other. However, there are doubts regarding the agreement of their social domains. Objective: The present study aim to assess whether the social domains of the NHP and SF-36 correspond when applied in a population with chronic disease. Methods: The present research was made by applying the two instruments to a population with chronic disease. The social domains agreement was evaluated by Pearson correlation, ROC curve, AUC, Youdex Index, and Bland-Altman plot. Results: It was achieved a weak correlation between the two social domains (r = 0.3), confirmed by
