TY - JOUR
T1 - The Cyprus Women's Health Research (COHERE) initiative: normative data from the SF-36v2 questionnaire for reproductive aged women from the Eastern Mediterranean
AU - Swift, B.
AU - Naci, H.
AU - Taneri, B.
AU - Becker, C.M.
AU - Zondervan, K.T.
AU - Rahmioglu, N.
N1 - Funding Information:
We would like to thank all the women who volunteered to take part in our study and our research assistants from Eastern Mediterranean University who conducted the baseline recruitment in the field namely Ecem Fidan, Kamil Ipciler, Asya Koparan, Cise Mis, Elif Okur, Zisan Pekri, Pembe Savas, Melis Tarhan, Ebru Yasti Gokcen Kofali, Gizem Gurpinar, Sumeyye Istanbul, Dilara Altan, and the data entry team. We are grateful to the Cyprus Women’s Health Research Society (CoHERS) civil society members for their support of the project in spreading the world and reaching the women in Northern Cyprus. We would like to also acknowledge the Northern Cyprus Statistics Institution, in particular, Erkan Muhtaroglu and Dr. Turel Ozer Oksuzoglu for sharing the 2019 census projections. We also thank the two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments that improved our manuscript.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/7
Y1 - 2022/7
N2 - Purpose Describe the health-related quality of life for a representative cohort of women aged 18-55 in Northern Cyprus. Methods We utilised the SF-36-Health-Survey-version-2 (SF-36v2) questionnaire as part of the COHERE Initiative study to calculate the eight physical and mental subscale scores, as well as the two overall summary measures for physical and mental health, where we present results using Cyprus-specific scoring as well as scores based on the test developers' algorithms. We examined associations between sociodemographic characteristics for both scores. Results A total of 7089 women fully completed the SF-36v2 questionnaire (mean age = 36.9), which was reliable and valid in this population. We observed better physical health in ages 18-25 compared to 46-55 (53.32 vs. 46.72 (p < 0.001)) and better mental health in women aged 46-55 compared to 18-25 (52.07 vs. 47.95 (p < 0.001)). Women in employment had better physical and mental health compared to those who were unemployed (physical: 50.25 vs 49.95, p < 0.001 and mental: 50.25 vs 49.24, p = 0.083) and scores increased as educational attainment increased (physical: 47.55 for primary to 51.58 for postgraduate, mental: 48.88 to 50.59, p < 0.001). Turkish Cypriot women had higher scores than Turkish women (physical: 50.42 vs 49.30, mental: 50.43 vs 49.10, p < 0.001). Conclusion These are the first population normative values published from a large representative sample of women between 18 and 55 years from the Eastern Mediterranean region. We found better physical health in younger women and better mental health in older women. Turkish Cypriot women and non-migrant women had better mental health, and HRQOL was highest in those in paid employment and those with a higher educational achievement.
AB - Purpose Describe the health-related quality of life for a representative cohort of women aged 18-55 in Northern Cyprus. Methods We utilised the SF-36-Health-Survey-version-2 (SF-36v2) questionnaire as part of the COHERE Initiative study to calculate the eight physical and mental subscale scores, as well as the two overall summary measures for physical and mental health, where we present results using Cyprus-specific scoring as well as scores based on the test developers' algorithms. We examined associations between sociodemographic characteristics for both scores. Results A total of 7089 women fully completed the SF-36v2 questionnaire (mean age = 36.9), which was reliable and valid in this population. We observed better physical health in ages 18-25 compared to 46-55 (53.32 vs. 46.72 (p < 0.001)) and better mental health in women aged 46-55 compared to 18-25 (52.07 vs. 47.95 (p < 0.001)). Women in employment had better physical and mental health compared to those who were unemployed (physical: 50.25 vs 49.95, p < 0.001 and mental: 50.25 vs 49.24, p = 0.083) and scores increased as educational attainment increased (physical: 47.55 for primary to 51.58 for postgraduate, mental: 48.88 to 50.59, p < 0.001). Turkish Cypriot women had higher scores than Turkish women (physical: 50.42 vs 49.30, mental: 50.43 vs 49.10, p < 0.001). Conclusion These are the first population normative values published from a large representative sample of women between 18 and 55 years from the Eastern Mediterranean region. We found better physical health in younger women and better mental health in older women. Turkish Cypriot women and non-migrant women had better mental health, and HRQOL was highest in those in paid employment and those with a higher educational achievement.
KW - SF-36
KW - Health-related quality of life
KW - Northern Cyprus
KW - Population norms
KW - Women's health
KW - Patient-reported outcome (PRO)
KW - SELF-REPORTED HEALTH
KW - QUALITY-OF-LIFE
KW - IMMIGRANTS
U2 - 10.1007/s11136-022-03100-7
DO - 10.1007/s11136-022-03100-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 35165833
SN - 0962-9343
VL - 31
SP - 2011
EP - 2022
JO - Quality of Life Research
JF - Quality of Life Research
IS - 7
ER -