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review of both historical and contemporary
scientific literature on QoL.
A QoL questionnaire has been studied for
many decades and there are many well-developed
instruments such as MOS-SF36, EQ5D and
WHOQOL-BREF, (Ware & Sherbourne, 1992;
EuroQol, 1996; The WHOQOL Group, 1998).
Therefore, one of the questions which a researcher
can potentially pose is that whether it is necessary
to develop another QoL measure. In addition, a
series of other related questions will often be posed
by a researcher as well. These include: ‘What is the
basis for developing a new QoL measure?’, ‘What
