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Health-related quality of life is a structured way to describe how a person is managing right now. Instead of collapsing everything into a vague sense of feeling better or worse, it separates movement, self-care, routine activities, discomfort, and emotional strain into distinct parts that can be reviewed together.
This tool presents the adult EQ-5D-5L format as five severity selections plus an EQ VAS self-rating from 0 to 100. When you finish, the page shows a five-digit health-state code, a visual profile of the five dimensions, your own overall rating for today, and several built-in summaries that make the pattern easier to discuss.
That is useful for day-to-day check-ins after illness, treatment changes, recovery, flare-ups, rehabilitation, or periods of added stress. A person may report only slight limits in mobility and self-care while still showing a clearer burden in pain or anxiety, and that kind of split is easy to miss without a dimension-by-dimension view.
The package also adds its own interpretation layer by grouping the first three dimensions into a function subtotal and the last two into a symptoms subtotal. Those extra measures can help with reflection, but they are page-level heuristics rather than official EuroQol index values or diagnostic categories.
The main caution is scope. EQ-5D-5L is a descriptive instrument, not a diagnosis, and this page does not convert the profile into a country value-set utility score. It also mirrors the five-digit state and EQ VAS in the page URL, so browser history and shared links can reveal more of the result than people sometimes expect.
Use the page as a measure of health today rather than as a weekly average. The five dimension answers and the EQ VAS work best when you choose the option that matches your immediate condition at the time of completion. If you want to compare several runs, keep timing and context reasonably stable so the differences reflect health change rather than a different moment of the day.
Read the result in layers instead of jumping straight to one headline. The five-digit code tells you exactly where the reported problems sit. The radar chart shows which dimensions are highest. The EQ VAS records your own overall judgement. The narrative summary then adds the page-specific function-versus-symptoms split and short follow-up prompts.
If you are using the page before an appointment or follow-up discussion, export the answer table or radar data after you finish. A structured record is usually more helpful later than trying to remember which single dimension felt highest on the day.
The official EQ-5D-5L descriptive system has five dimensions: mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain or discomfort, and anxiety or depression. Each dimension is rated on a 1 to 5 scale, from no problems to the most severe option used by the page. The selected digits are concatenated in that order, so one completed run becomes a five-digit health-state code such as 11121.
The EQ VAS is a separate self-rating from 0 to 100. It captures the respondent's own judgement of current health rather than a population preference weight. Official EuroQol guidance distinguishes that self-rating from country or region value sets, which can convert a five-digit state into an index value for analysis. This page does not perform that value-set conversion.
Instead, the package computes its own burden model by subtracting 1 from each selected level and summing the amount above baseline. The first three dimensions form a function subtotal from 0 to 12. The last two form a symptoms subtotal from 0 to 8. Together they create a total burden score from 0 to 20, plus a balance note about whether function limits or symptoms are carrying more of the result.
| Output | Range | Meaning here |
|---|---|---|
Function |
0 to 12 | Burden from mobility, self-care, and usual activities; labeled none at 0-3, mild at 4-6, moderate at 7-9, severe at 10-12 |
Symptoms |
0 to 8 | Burden from pain or discomfort and anxiety or depression; labeled none at 0-2, mild at 3-4, moderate at 5-6, severe at 7-8 |
Total burden |
0 to 20 | Overall page-specific burden summary; grouped as mild at 0-5, moderate at 6-12, severe at 13-20 |
EQ VAS band |
0 to 100 | Labeled low at 0-40, fair at 41-60, good at 61-80, and very good at 81-100 |
The page also adds a simple alignment check between total burden and EQ VAS. Burden 0 to 3 maps to an expected EQ VAS of 80 to 100, 4 to 8 maps to 60 to 80, 9 to 14 maps to 40 to 60, and 15 to 20 maps to 0 to 40. That comparison is a package heuristic meant to highlight mismatches between the profile and the self-rating. It is not part of official EQ-5D scoring.
The results page renders the five-dimension profile in two charts: a radar chart with the selected levels and a gauge for EQ VAS. The radar chart can be exported as PNG, WebP, JPEG, or CSV. The answer table can be copied or downloaded as CSV and exported as DOCX with the health state and EQ VAS in the header.
Scoring, chart preparation, and answer exports run in the browser and there is no tool-specific upload endpoint. The privacy caveat is local rather than server-side: the response code and EQ VAS are stored in URL parameters, which means browser history, screenshots, or shared links can reveal the current result.
Start Assessment and answer the five dimensions one by one.The five-digit code is the most literal output. Read it from left to right as mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain or discomfort, and anxiety or depression. A code like 11121 means no reported problems in the first three dimensions, slight pain or discomfort in the fourth, and no reported anxiety or depression in the fifth.
The EQ VAS answers a different question. It asks how good or bad health feels overall, which is why it can move differently from the five-digit profile. Someone may have a relatively light official profile but still rate the day poorly because of fatigue, uncertainty, or concerns that are not fully captured by these five dimensions. The reverse can happen too, especially when people have adapted to chronic limitations.
The function and symptoms subtotals should be read as emphasis markers, not official EuroQol outcomes. Higher function burden means the first three dimensions are doing most of the work in the result. Higher symptoms burden means pain or discomfort or anxiety or depression is driving the profile more strongly.
The safest way to use the page is to compare patterns rather than chase one perfect number. Which dimensions rose, which stayed stable, and whether EQ VAS moved with them usually tells a clearer story than any single label by itself.
A state of 11111 with an EQ VAS near 90 means the respondent selected no problems in any dimension and also judged overall health strongly for the day. The page's extra summaries keep function and symptoms at their lowest possible values, which is exactly what you would expect from a clean profile.
If the selected state is 11121 and the EQ VAS is 75, the official profile says the only reported problem is slight pain or discomfort. The added summaries keep function at baseline, place symptoms only slightly above baseline, and treat the day as a mild burden profile. That is a good example of a specific issue rather than a diffuse one.
A state such as 23342 with an EQ VAS around 45 shows problems across several dimensions rather than in just one place. The page's derived burden totals would spread across both function and symptoms, the EQ VAS would sit in the fair range, and the narrative would shift from simple observation toward stronger follow-up prompts.
No. It describes a health profile and a self-rated overall health score for today. Diagnosis requires broader clinical assessment and context that this five-dimension measure does not supply.
No. Official EQ-5D profiles can be converted into country or region index values using value sets. This page does not calculate those values. It shows the five-digit state, EQ VAS, charts, and its own added burden heuristics instead.
Because they measure different things. The five-digit profile records selected levels in five named dimensions, while EQ VAS records your overall judgement of health. It is normal for those two views to move together only loosely on some days.
The scoring path is browser-based and does not use a tool-specific upload helper, but the page stores the response code and EQ VAS in the URL. That means browser history and shared links can expose the result even though there is no server-side scoring step.
Yes, but consistency matters. Compare runs that were completed under roughly similar conditions and at similar times, otherwise normal context shifts can look like health change.