Correlated physical and mental health composite scores for the RAND-36 and RAND-12 health surveys: can we keep them simple?

John Roger AndersenKyrre BreivikInger Elise EngelundMarjolein M IversenJorunn KirkeleitTone Merete NorekvålKjersti OterhalsAnette Storesund

Published in: Health and quality of life outcomes (2022)

The unweighted RAND-36 and RAND-12 composite scores demonstrated satisfactory criterion validity and convergent validity. This suggests that if the physical and mental composite scores are free to be correlated, the calculation of these composite scores can be kept simple.

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