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NHP
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Designed to measure subjective health status (Hunt and McEwen 1980), the Nottingham health profile (NHP) contains 38 questions grouped into six domains: physical mobility (eight items), social isolation (five items), emotional reactions (nine items), pain (eight items), sleep (five items), and energy (three items). Each question is answered “yes” or “no” according to whether the symptom is present or absent “in general” (Hunt et al. 1980). Items in each domain are assigned a weight; the total score for each domain is 100 where a score of 0 indicates good subjective health status and 100 indicates poor subjective health status. The NHP total score is obtained by averaging the six domain scores.
Historical Background
The NHP was developed in response to the recognition in the late 1970s and early 1980s of the important role that the individual plays in prevention, self-care, and making health-care decisions (Hunt et al. 1980). As a result, an assessment was...
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Bushnik, T. (2018). Nottingham Health Profile. In: Kreutzer, J.S., DeLuca, J., Caplan, B. (eds) Encyclopedia of Clinical Neuropsychology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57111-9_1823
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