Lower-scored domains appear first, stronger anchors appear later, and the dashed line marks the within-tool profile mean.
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The response ledger keeps every recoded item visible. Item 2 remains a separate health-change note and does not enter the eight domain means.
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The payload includes the function/QoL subtype, domain rankings, follow-up lists, and the answered-item ledger.
Health-related quality of life is a broad description of how health affects movement, pain, energy, mood, social life, and everyday roles. People use that kind of profile when a single symptom score feels too narrow and the more useful question is how different parts of daily life are holding up together.
This package presents a 36-question profile and turns the completed answers into eight domain scores on a 0 to 100 scale, plus top-level Mean, Physical, and Mental badges. It also draws a radar chart, a domain bar chart, a highlights panel, a ranked domain list, and an answer table that can be exported to CSV or DOCX.
That makes it useful for reflective self-tracking and for preparing a clearer conversation with a clinician, therapist, coach, or caregiver. A person recovering from illness, burnout, injury, or prolonged stress may care less about one global number than about whether physical functioning is improving while energy, mood, or social participation are still lagging behind.
The package is best read as a structured snapshot of self-reported status, not as a diagnosis or a treatment decision by itself. One answer asks how health compares with one year ago, but in the shipped scoring logic that response does not feed into the main eight-domain profile, so the most meaningful comparisons come from repeating the whole survey under similar conditions and watching how the profile changes over time.
A more important boundary is questionnaire fidelity. Official SF-36 and RAND-36 materials publish specific item wording, response ladders, and scoring methods. This package uses its own client-side question map and simple summary means, so it should not replace a formally administered instrument when exact research, clinic, insurer, or norm-table comparability matters.
The cleanest first pass is to answer the full survey in one sitting and keep the recall frame steady. Most questions refer to the past four weeks, so the result is easier to interpret when you do not mix different time windows, unfinished drafts, or half-remembered periods in the same run.
Mean can still hide a sharp weakness in Energy / Fatigue, Pain, or Social Functioning.Balanced physical and mental scores only means the two summary means are within five points of each other, not that either one is high.Mean, Physical, Mental, or the domain charts.If you plan to repeat the tool, keep the comparison honest by using the same package, the same recall style, and roughly the same interpretation habits each time. That is especially important here because the page stores answer state in the address bar, so a copied link can recreate the response pattern later, but it can also spread sensitive information if you share it casually.
Before you trust the result, read Mean, Physical, Mental, the lowest-ranked domains, and the support note together. That combined view is much harder to misread than any one badge or chart by itself.
The domain model follows the familiar SF-36 idea of splitting self-reported health across eight areas: Physical Functioning, Role-Physical, Pain, General Health, Emotional Well-being, Role-Emotional, Social Functioning, and Energy / Fatigue. In this package, each scored response is transformed onto a 0 to 100 scale where higher means better perceived status on that item, then the transformed items inside each domain are averaged to produce the domain score shown in the charts and summary panels.
The transformation is linear within each item's answer ladder. If higher raw choices reflect better status, the package maps the lowest category to 0 and the highest category to 100. If higher raw choices reflect worse status, it reverses the ladder first and then applies the same 0 to 100 spacing. That means the package treats the distance between adjacent answer categories as evenly spaced for scoring purposes, even though real human experience is not always that tidy.
Above the eight domains, the page computes three summary fields of its own. Physical is the simple mean of Physical Functioning, Role-Physical, Pain, and General Health. Mental is the simple mean of Emotional Well-being, Role-Emotional, Social Functioning, and Energy / Fatigue. Mean is the simple mean across all eight domain scores. The balance note then compares Physical and Mental and labels them as balanced when the absolute difference is 5 points or less.
Those choices make the page easy to understand, but they also define its limits. The one-year comparison item is rendered but not added into the profile. The package mirrors responses into a shareable URL state string, so privacy depends partly on how you handle the page link. Most importantly, the published SF-36 literature also describes official questionnaires, scoring instructions, and norm-based component methods that are not reproduced here. The outputs on this page are best treated as a local profile generator built around SF-36-style domains, not as an official replacement for published RAND-36 or SF-36 scoring workflows.
The core scoring logic can be summarized with two steps: transform each answered item to 0 to 100, then average within the relevant domain.
| Output field | How this package derives it | What to keep in mind |
|---|---|---|
Mean |
Average of all eight domain scores | Useful for a broad snapshot, but it can hide sharp lows in one domain |
Physical |
Average of Physical Functioning, Role-Physical, Pain, and General Health | A simple domain mean, not an official norm-based component score |
Mental |
Average of Emotional Well-being, Role-Emotional, Social Functioning, and Energy / Fatigue | Also a simple domain mean, not an official norm-based component score |
Balance note |
Compare Physical and Mental with a 5-point threshold |
Balanced means similar, not necessarily high |
Your Answers |
Plain-text record of the chosen response label for each prompt | The best place to verify that the profile matches what you intended to answer |
| Boundary | Package behavior | Interpretation effect |
|---|---|---|
| One-year comparison item | Rendered in the questionnaire but not added to any domain average | It can inform your reading, but it does not move the displayed profile |
| Privacy | Answers stay in the browser, but the address bar stores an encoded response string | Sharing the link can recreate the result set |
| Official comparability | The page uses its own item map and summary math | Do not substitute these outputs for published RAND-36 or SF-36 administration where fidelity matters |
Use this flow when you want a complete profile and a clean export you can review later.
Start Survey and read the brief instructions first. They establish the usual four-week recall window and remind you that the page will not score until every item is answered.36/36 answered, and the summary, charts, and exports stay locked until the final item is selected.Mean, Physical, Mental, and the balance pill in one glance.Highlights, Next steps, Subscores, Domain ranking, the radar chart, the bar chart, and finally Your Answers to confirm the result matches what you meant to report.Copy CSV, Download CSV, or Export DOCX if you need a record. If privacy matters, treat the page URL and exported answer files as sensitive because they can preserve the same response pattern you just entered.Higher scores mean better self-reported status in this package, but the most informative part of the output is usually the shape of the profile rather than the overall average. The lowest domain, the gap between highest and lowest domains, and the direction of the physical-versus-mental tilt usually tell you more than the headline Mean alone.
Balanced physical and mental scores means the two summary means are within 5 points. It does not mean the profile is strong. A low physical mean and a low mental mean can still count as balanced.Physical > Mental by x or Mental > Physical by x is a relative comparison, not a severity band. It points to where the weaker half of the profile sits.Physical and Mental badges are simple domain means. Do not compare them to published norm-based PCS or MCS tables as though they were the same quantity.The best verification step is to open Your Answers and compare the lowest domain with the actual questions you selected there. If the ranking feels surprising, check the response wording rather than assuming the profile uncovered a hidden clinical truth.
Suppose the ten Physical Functioning items are answered mostly at the strongest level, the four Role-Physical items and three Role-Emotional items indicate no limitation, but the social-interference items and several energy or mood items land around the middle of their ladders. In one run with that pattern, the summary box reports Mean 66.1, Physical 77.5, and Mental 54.8. The domain profile then shows Social Functioning 25, Energy / Fatigue 50, and Emotional Well-being 44, which is a practical sign that mobility may be recovering faster than day-to-day stamina or participation.
Now imagine choosing the middle response wherever a middle exists and taking the binary role items as answered rather than skipped. A test run like that produces Mean 36.6, Physical 37.5, and Mental 35.8, so the summary pill reads Balanced physical and mental scores. Even so, Role-Physical and Role-Emotional drop to 0 in that run, which shows why the balance note is only a difference check and not a reassurance badge.
A person reaches the end of the questionnaire and expects the charts to render, but the progress label still shows 35/36 answered. The summary box, radar chart, and answer export buttons stay hidden because one radio group is still unanswered. As soon as the final item is selected, the package unlocks Mean, Physical, Mental, the charts, and the Your Answers export tools.
No. The page gives a structured self-report profile, not a diagnosis. It also does not reproduce published RAND-36 or SF-36 materials exactly enough to stand in for official administration where strict scoring fidelity or norm-table comparison is required.
Because the balanced note only checks whether Physical and Mental are within 5 points of each other. It says nothing about whether the two values are high, moderate, or low in an absolute sense.
In the shipped code, that comparison item is displayed but not added into the eight domain averages, Mean, Physical, or Mental. It can still matter to your own interpretation, but it is not part of the computed profile.
The package does not perform a survey-specific upload step. Responses stay in the browser, but the page stores an encoded answer pattern in the URL and the export buttons can write your answers to CSV or DOCX, so privacy still depends on what you share.
Yes, but keep the comparison modest. Repeat the same package, use a similar recall frame, and compare the same output fields such as Mean, Physical, Mental, and the lowest-ranked domains. Do not mix these results with official norm-based SF-36 summaries and assume they are interchangeable.