Despite its usefulness in the research of life transition and sickness, this Rating Scale contains significant limitations. The current scale cannot be used to identify the involvement of different sorts of life changes (for example, positive or negative) in the onset of sickness. Other issues covered include item vagueness, confusion of variables of the study, and item uncertainty, as well as a lack of product detail There are suggestions for better life change assessment and more successful life transition and sickness research.
