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 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 12 Chronic liver disease self-assessment inventory for Of: Benny Lau energy, Liu Zhen, Ms Lau, Taoxia Ping, Liu Baoyan [Keywords:] chronic liver disease, since the rating scale, chronic hepatitis B, chronic hepatitis C, fatty liver, cirrhosis of the liver Chronic liver disease including chronic hepatitis B, chronic hepatitis C, fatty liver, cirrhosis, clinical use of these disorders, pathological and biochemical indicators of liver biopsy and other therapeutic evaluation, liver biopsy is an invasive evaluation methods, biochemical Sometimes the change can not truly reflect the feelings and condition of patients, therefore, an objective evaluation is still being explored. In this study, the correlation scale developed strategies and methods developed in line with our culture characteristics and language used in patients with chronic liver disease self-rating scale, are reported below. 1 Scale Formation 1.1 The establishment of working groups Research group consists of 10 member focus group, a core group of 8 and 4-member working group composition, including multiple disciplines and professional quality of life of clinicians and researchers. 1.2 Determination of the definition of the concept of identification with the domain The WHO concept of quality of life and its composition [1] as a starting point, and with reference to Ferrell et al [2] and Bonomi et al [3] on the health-related quality of life (health related quality of life, HRQOL) to determine the understanding of self-assessment of chronic liver disease The concept of scale. Bonomi et al [3] that the quality of health assessment includes not only the occurrence of certain symptoms or phenomena, or to bear the ability of specific symptoms or phenomena, but also areas of concern and the satisfaction. Therefore, we identified from the 3 a field evaluation: ① symptoms and feelings of physical discomfort, ② psychological and emotional, ③ social function. under eac