Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
Volume 106, Issue 7 , Pages 592-597, 2007

Cultural Adaptation of the WHOQOL Questionnaire for Taiwan

  • Grace Yao

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, College of Science, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Dr Grace Yao, Department of Psychology, National Taiwan University, No. 1, Section 4, Roosevelt Road, Taipei 106, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Jung-Der Wang

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chih-Wen Chung

      Affiliations

    • Institute of Occupational Medicine and Industrial Hygiene, College of Public Health, National Taiwan University, Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

Received 24 April 2006; received in revised form 28 December 2006; accepted 6 February 2007.

Article Outline

This brief report describes cultural adaptation of the WHOQOL-100 questionnaire for Taiwan. The standard cultural adaptation procedure was used for questionnaire translation, response scale generation, and national items design. A field test was conducted on 1068 participants randomly selected from 17 hospitals all over Taiwan. Several psychometric criteria were used for selecting 12 out of the 20 national items previously proposed from three focus groups. In terms of reliability and validity, the psychometric properties of the culturally adapted WHOQOL questionnaire are good and the values are comparable with those in studies conducted in 15 countries.

Key Words:  cultural adaptation , Taiwan , WHOQOL

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PII: S0929-6646(07)60012-6

doi:10.1016/S0929-6646(07)60012-6

Journal of the Formosan Medical Association
Volume 106, Issue 7 , Pages 592-597, 2007

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