Definition
The Duke Health Profile (DUKE) is a 17-item self-report questionnaire for measuring generic health-related quality of life (HRQOL) during a 1-week period of time. It can be completed by the respondent or by an interviewer.
Description
The Duke Health Profile (DUKE) was developed by Parkerson, Broadhead, and Tse (1990, 1991) to measure self-reported health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in adults over a 1-week time period (Fig. 1). It is user-friendly because of its small number of brief, easy to understand questions, and because there are only three response options for each question. The 17 questions on the DUKE were selected from the 63 questions on the Duke-University of North Carolina (Duke-UNC) Health Profile developed by Parkerson et al. (1981).
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Parkerson, G.R. (2014). Duke Health Profile (DUKE). In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_785
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