Acronym

(GCBI)

Description

The Glasgow Children’s Benefit Inventory (GCBI) is a generic QOL for the evaluation of children’s benefits from different interventions. (GCBI) comprised 24 questions on the consequences of a specified intervention on various aspects of the child's day-to-day life, without reference to any specific symptoms, and was worded to apply to children of any age.

Area of assessment

Quality of life.

Condition

Ent.

Age Group

Child/adolescent- 0-19 years

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Acronym

GMHAT/PC

Description

A semi-structured, computerized clinical assessment tool that was developed to assist health workers in making quick, convenient and comprehensive standardized mental health assessments. It generates a computer diagnosis, a symptom rating, a self-harm risk assessment, and a referral letter.

Area of assessment

Mental health.

Condition

Psychiatric.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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Acronym

GPAQ

Description

The Global Physical Activity Questionnaire was developed by WHO for physical activity surveillance in countries. It collects information on physical activity participation in three settings (or domains) as well as sedentary behavior. The domains are: activity at work , travel to and from places, recreational activities

Area of assessment

Physical activity.

Condition

Health, Rehabilitation.

Age Group

Other

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Acronym

HAM-A

Description

Hamilton anxiety scale used to measure the severity of anxiety symptoms. The scale consists of 14 items, each defined by a series of symptoms, and measures both psychic anxiety (mental agitation and psychological distress) and somatic anxiety (physical complaints related to anxiety).

Area of assessment

anxiety.

Condition

Psychiatric.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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Acronym

HDRS or HAM-D

Description

A clinician-administered depression assessment screening tool.

Area of assessment

Depresssion, Mental health.

Condition

Psychiatric.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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Acronym

HSCT

Description

The Hayling Sentence Completion Test (HSCT), originally developed by Burgess & Shallice, is one of the available tools that evaluate inhibition. It is a measure of prepotent response inhibition that detects frontal lobe dysfunction. In this test, participants hear sentences in which the last word is absent. In the automatic condition, participants are asked to complete sentences correctly (i.e., by a word solidly related to the sentence), reflecting the initiation of a semantically supported automatic response. In the inhibition condition, participants are asked to restrain themselves from saying the cueing word, and to complete the sentence with a totally unrelated word. To perform this task appropriately, participants have to inhibit the related word and its semantic associates.

Area of assessment

Function/disability/performance, Mental health.

Condition

Neurology.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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Acronym

Not available

Description

An interviewer-administered questionnaire in Arabic language comprising two sets of questions. The first set includes personal and sociodemographic data together with a screening question regarding the presence of headaches over the last year. The second set defines the type and pattern of headaches according to the International Classification of Headache Disorders criteria.

Area of assessment

Pain.

Condition

Health.

Age Group

Other

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Acronym

HAQ

Description

Originally developed by James F. Fries and colleagues at Stanford University in 1978, Developed as a comprehensive measure of outcome in patients with a wide variety of rheumatic diseases but now also used for other conditions and aging , Should be considered a generic rather than a disease-specific instrument. Its focus is on self-reported patient-oriented outcome measures, rather than process measures. The Full Five-Dimension HAQ, assesses a hierarchy of patient outcomes in four domains: 1) disability, 2) discomfort and pain, 3) drug side effects (toxicity) and 4) dollar costs.

Area of assessment

Activities of daily living, Function/disability/performance, Pain, Symptoms.

Condition

Geriatric, Health, Orthopedic /rheumatology.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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Acronym

HBSQ

Description

ssess important constructs that influence behavior, including self-efficacy and social support beliefs related to choosing healthy foods and engaging in physical activity

Area of assessment

Behavior, Beliefs.

Condition

Health.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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Acronym

HES-A

Description

The development of the HES was grounded on the concept of health empowerment as “a cognitive state characterized by perceptions of control regarding one’s health and health care; perceptions of competence regarding one’s ability to maintain good health and manage interactions with the health care system; and internalization of health ideas and goals at the individual and societal level.” 16 The original version of the tool was created from the “Diabetes Empowerment Scale Short Form” (DES-SF), which was established to measure the health empowerment of diabetic patients. 26 Park and Park argued that the DES-SF reflects each of the features of the fundamental characteristics of health-related empowerment. 16 HES captures the main elements of health empowerment: “self-control, self-efficacy, problem-solving, psychosocial coping, support, motivation, and decision-making.” 16 The tool has been validated to measure health empowerment among Korean older people. 16 In a previous study, the HES was translated to French and German languages and was tested for psychometric characteristics and factorial validity among women. 27 The study revealed that the French (α = .86) and German (α = .87) versions had acceptable internal consistency reliability when used among women. The study also provided evidence of the one-dimensionality of the French and German versions through confirmatory factor analyses (CFA). 27 The study concluded that the HES could be used to assess the health empowerment of French- and German-speaking women. 27 Hence, we assumed that the HES could also be used to assess these construct among Saudi women.

Area of assessment

Behavior.

Condition

Community.

Age Group

Not available

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Acronym

HAS-A

Description

HAS-A includes 15 questions that are divided into three subscales: communication, confusion and functional health literacy. Communication subscale focuses on oral communication and comfort when asking questions to healthcare professionals (HCPs); confusion subscale focuses on the degree of confusion about received health information and functional health literacy evaluates reading ability and numeracy. For each subscale, adolescents had to choose among one of the following options (always=4, usually=3, sometimes=2, rarely=1 and never=0) for each item of the HAS-A

Area of assessment

Health literacy.

Condition

Health.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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Acronym

HLS-EU-Q16

Description

A measure of respondents’ perceived personal skills of finding, understanding, judging and applying health information to maintain and improve their health

Area of assessment

Health literacy.

Condition

Health.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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Acronym

HPLP

Description

A measurement for likelihood of individuals to engage in health promoting behaviors. Includes six dimensions: Self-Actualization, Health Responsibility, Exercise, Nutrition, Interpersonal Support, and Stress Management. This is the original version developed in 1978 (Walker S, Richert Sechrist K, J. Pender N.).

Area of assessment

Activities of daily living, Behavior, Function/disability/performance, General health, Knowledge/attitude, Mental health, Nutrition, Physical activity, Social.

Condition

Community, Health.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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Acronym

COMQ-12

Description

Not available

Area of assessment

Hearing, Quality of life.

Condition

Health.

Age Group

Not available

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Acronym

HHIE

Description

Tool for evaluating the psychological influences of hearing loss in elderly populations

Area of assessment

Hearing.

Condition

Ent.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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Acronym

HHIA

Description

Tool for evaluating the psychological influences of hearing loss in adults

Area of assessment

Hearing.

Condition

Ent.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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Acronym

HPSP

Description

Not available

Area of assessment

Symptoms.

Condition

Hematology, Infectious disease.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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Acronym

HSCL

Description

The Hopkins Symptom Checklist (HSCL) originated from the Cornell Medical Index (Wider 1948), and was further expanded by investigators at Johns Hopkins University in the 1950s (Frank et al. 1957; Parloff et al. 1954). It was developed initially to measure common psychoneurotic complaints of outpatients (Lipman et al. 1965). There are several versions of this instrument in which items range from a count of 25 to 90 and differ in the constructs measured (e.g. HSCL-25, HSCL-35, and SCL-90) (Derogatis et al. 1974; Derrogatis et al. 1973; Hesbacher et al. 1980). Shorter versions of the instrument also exist (HSCL-10 and HSCL-5); they perform almost as well as HSCL-25 for adolescents (Strand et al. 2003). The 90-item checklist includes measures of psychotic and paranoid symptoms, in addition to anxiety and depression symptoms (Derogatis et al. 1974). On the other hand, the 25-item version focuses more on the presence and intensity of depression and anxiety symptoms (e.g., fear, dizziness, self-blame) (Hesbacher et al. 1980; Nettelbladt et al. 1993).

Area of assessment

anxiety, Depresssion.

Condition

Community.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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Acronym

HADS

Description

A tool used to detect the levels of anxiety and depression that a patient is experiencing. The HADS is a fourteen item scale that generates ordinal data. Seven of the items relate to anxiety and seven relate to depression. Zigmond and Snaith created this outcome measure specifically to avoid reliance on aspects of these conditions that are also common somatic symptoms of illness, for example fatigue and insomnia or hypersomnia. This, it was hoped, would create a tool for the detection of anxiety and depression in people with physical health problems.

Area of assessment

anxiety, Depresssion, Mental health.

Condition

Psychiatric.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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Acronym

HCAHPS

Description

This survey was developed to assess patients’ experiences with hospital care quality. composed of 27 items: 18 substantive items that encompass critical aspects of the hospital experience (communication with doctors, communication with nurses, responsiveness of hospital staff, cleanliness of the hospital environment, quietness of the hospital environment, pain management, communication about medicines, discharge information, overall rating of hospital, and recommendation of hospital); four items to skip patients to appropriate questions; three items to adjust for the mix of patients across hospitals; and two items to support congressionally-mandated reports.

Area of assessment

Health service, Satisfaction/patient experience.

Condition

Hospital.

Age Group

Adult- over 19 years

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