When it comes to something as important as quality of life, we need tools that provide accurate, reliable data. Stoma-QoL does just that.

Using generic QoL questionnaires to measure quality of life in people with a stoma raises one major issue: The questions asked do not focus on the particular concerns that affect people with a stoma. And if you don’t ask the right questions, you don’t get the right answers.

The Stoma-QoL questionnaire is specifically designed to measure quality of life in people with a stoma. It’s based on interviews with this group of people, so all questions focus on the specific issues that cause worry and unease in their daily life. The fact that these issues have been weighted to emphasise those that are most critical to the respondent’s quality of life, makes Stoma-QoL unique among measurement tools.

A standard score for quality of life
With Stoma-QoL, healthcare professionals, researchers and product developers like Coloplast now have a standard – a common language – to help assess quality of life for people with a colostomy, ileostomy and urostomy. You can use the Stoma-QoL score to monitor quality of life over time in the same person – or to compare differences in quality of life between people with a stoma.

Learn more about how the questionnaire was developed or download Stoma-QoL for free.