Current review of the SarQoL®: a health-related quality of life questionnaire specific to sarcopenia

Figures & data

Table 1. Literature review of studies assessing QoL in sarcopenia patients.

Reference	Sarcopenia diagnostic criteria	QoL tool(s) used	Results
Beaudart [27]	EWGSOP [3]	SF-36 EQ-5D EQ-VAS	Poorer QoL of sarcopenic patients only for physical functioning No difference in QoL between groups No difference in QoL between groups
Go [28]	ALM/ht^2 <2SD of the sex-specific means of young adults	EQ-5D	Lower QoL for sarcopenic patients
Koo [29]	ALM/weight <1SD of the sex-specific mean of young adults	EQ-5D EQ-VAS	Poorer QoL for sarcopenic patients No difference in QoL between groups
Manrique-Espinoza [30]	EWGSOP [3]	SF-36	Poorer QoL for severe sarcopenic patients for both mental and physical component scores
Messier [31]	(ALBMI) ≤6.44 kg/m^2 for women	SF-36	No difference in QoL between groups
Morishita [32]	SMI index < cut off of Chien et al. [33]	SF-36	Poorer QoL for sarcopenic patients in three domains: physical functioning, bodily pain, vitality
Patel [34]	EWGSOP [3]	SF-36	Poorer QoL for sarcopenic patients in two domains: physical functioning and general health
Pedrero Chamizo [35]	Sex-specific cut off values published by Gómez- Cabello [36]	EQ-VAS	No difference of QoL between sarcopenic group and normal group
Silva Netto [20]	Baumgartner [37]	SF-36	No difference in QoL between groups
Wu [38]	SARC-F [39]	CASP-12 scale	Poorer QoL for sarcopenic patients
Yadav [40]	L3 skeletal mass index (SMI) of ≤52.4 cm^2/m^2 in males and ≤38.5 cm^2/m^2 in females	SF-36	No difference in QoL between groups

ALM: appendicular lean mass; ALBMI: appendicular lean body mass index; SD: standard deviation.

Table 2. Translation of the SarQoL® into foreign languages.

Available translated versions	Translation in progress
French^a (valid for French-speaking European countries)	Thai
English (valid for the UK and America)^a	Portuguese (European)
Dutch	Arabic
Ukrainian	Lithuanian
Hungarian	Malaysian
Romanian^a	Filipino
Greek	Russian
Polish^a	Serbian
Italian	Slovak
German	Turkish
Portuguese (Brazil)	Vietnamese
Czech	Japanese
Spanish	Indonesian
Farsi/Persian	Bulgarian
	Chinese (Cantonese)
	Swedish
	Latvian
	Hindi
	Slovenian
	Croatian

^aPsychometric properties have been checked for these versions.

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