Results of the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire with consumers
were calculated for all survey respondents according to the
manual; the mean, 83, was somewhat higher than that reported
by Bonomi, Patrick, Bushnell, and Martin (2000) (77.6 for combined
US population: healthy, childbearing and chronically ill
combined), probably due to the difference in the populations
tested, specifically, the survey did not purposely recruit chronically
ill participants.