>Purpose: To develop Chinese comprehensive health assessment scale (CCHAS) for community-dwelling elderly with chronic diseases and to examine its reliability and validity. >Method: The original CCHAS was developed using literature review and in-depth interviews, as well as Delphi method. 440 community dwelling elderly were selected to complete the scale and SF-36. >Results: The CCHAS contained 30 items, including: physical health, activities of daily living, mental health, social adaptation and general health. The total Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the scale was 0.81, and the split half reliability was 0.93. The total CVI of the scale was 0.87. Pearson correlation coefficient between the CCHAS scale and SF-36 was 0.83. 56.59% of the elderly has good health status, while 9.77% has poor. >Conclusion: The CCHAS has acceptable reliability and validity and is significantly correlated with SF-36. The results demonstrate that the scale can be applied to health evaluations in community-dwelling elderly in China.
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