Instruments: F-J

• Flanagan's Quality of Life Scale
  Self-administered questionnaire measuring generic quality of life designed for use in patients with chronic illness.
• Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy: Fatigue (FACT-F)
  A questionnaire assessing fatigue and anemia-related concerns in people with cancer.
• Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy: General (FACT-G)
  General quality of life instrument intended for use with a variety of chronic illness conditions. Originally validated in a general cancer population that included lung cancer patients.
• Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy - Lung (FACT-L)
  FACT-G (core instrument) plus a Lung Cancer Subscale.
• Functional Living Index - Cancer
  Cancer-specific, functionally-oriented quality of life instrument.
• Functional Outcomes of Sleep Questionnaire
  A condition-specific functional status measure designed to evaluate the impact of disorders of excessive sleepiness (DOES) on activities of daily living.
• Functional Performance Inventory
  A self-report measure of functional performance for COPD patients, designed to evaluate day-to-day activities patients with COPD must perform.
• Functional Severity Index
  A measure of functional impairment, i.e., symptoms and restrictions due to asthma in school-aged children.
• Functional Status II-R (FS II-R)
  Generic measure of functional status in children including children with chronic physical conditions. Describes child's functional status in the previous two weeks. The revised Functional Status II has both long and short versions. The long version contains 43 items with General Health and Stage Specific factors for each age group (age ranges 0-9 months, 10 months, - 2 years, 2-5 years, 5-11 years). The short version FS II-R uses a common core of items across the entire age span.
• Health and Activities Limitation Index (HALex)
  Derived from items in the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), the HALex is a generic measure of health that incorporates information about perceived health and activity limitation into a single composite score. The developers note that the score can be combined with information about life expectancy to yield a measure of quality-adjusted life years (QALY) 1 .
• Holmes' QOL Checklist
  Cancer-specific instrument for detecting the changes in life as a whole which result from the presence and treatment of malignant disease.
• How Are You?
  A measure of health-related quality of life in children with asthma.
• Human Activities Profile Test
  The HAP was designed to measure quality of life of patients in rehabilitation programs for COPD.
• Integrated Therapeutics Group - Asthma Short Form (ITG-ASF)
  15-item asthma-specific quality of life battery derived from the Marks AQLQ and other symptom and psychosocial impact batteries.
• Integrated Therapeutics Group Child Asthma Short Form
  Asthma-specific HRQL questionnaire for children with asthma; completed by parent.