Issue 1/2012
Content (156 Articles)
The Chinese version of the Myocardial Infarction Dimensional Assessment Scale (MIDAS): Mokken scaling
Roger Watson, Wenru Wang, Chantal F Ski, David R Thompson
Challenges in access to health services and its impact on quality of life: a randomised population-based survey within Turkish speaking immigrants in London
Kenan Topal, Erhan Eser, Ismail Sanberk, Elizabeth Bayliss, Esra Saatci
Validation of a Greek version of the oral health impact profile (OHIP-14) for use among adults
Vassilia Papagiannopoulou, Constantine J Oulis, William Papaioannou, George Antonogeorgos, John Yfantopoulos
A systematic review of quality of life instruments in long-term breast cancer survivors
Ishveen Chopra, Khalid M Kamal
Questions of Copyright
Caroline Anfray, Marie-Pierre Emery, Katrin Conway, Catherine Acquadro
Health related quality of life among adolescents with premenstrual disorders: a cross sectional study
Mahin Delara, Fazlollah Ghofranipour, Parviz Azadfallah, Sedigheh Sadat Tavafian, Anoushirvan Kazemnejad, Ali Montazeri
Validation of the self-management ability scale (SMAS) and development and validation of a shorter scale (SMAS-S) among older patients shortly after hospitalisation
Jane M Cramm, Mathilde MH Strating, Paul L de Vreede, Nardi Steverink, Anna P Nieboer
The influence of oral health conditions, socioeconomic status and home environment factors on schoolchildren's self-perception of quality of life
Janice S Paula, Isabel CG Leite, Anderso B Almeida, Glaucia MB Ambrosano, Antônio C Pereira, Fábio L Mialhe
Health utility after emergency medical admission: a cross-sectional survey
Steve W Goodacre, Richard W Wilson, Mike Bradburn, Martina Santarelli, Jon P Nicholl
Quality of life of caregivers with relatives suffering from mental illness in Hong Kong: roles of caregiver characteristics, caregiving burdens, and satisfaction with psychiatric services
Daniel Fu Keung Wong, Angus Yuk Kit Lam, Sau Kam Chan, Shuk Fan Chan
Psychometric properties of the Greek Diabetes Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire
Nick Kontodimopoulos, Eleni Arvanitaki, Vassilis H Aletras, Dimitris Niakas
Oral health related quality of life in pregnant and post partum women in two social network domains; predominantly home-based and work-based networks
Gabriela A Lamarca, Maria do C Leal, Anna TT Leao, Aubrey Sheiham, Mario V Vettore
Assessment of cardiometabolic risk among shift workers in Hungary
György Jermendy, Judit Nádas, Ilona Hegyi, István Vasas, Tibor Hidvégi
Reliability and validity of the Norwegian child and parent versions of the DISABKIDS Chronic Generic Module (DCGM-37) and Diabetes-Specific Module (DSM-10)
Dag Helge Frøisland, Trond Markestad, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, Torild Skrivarhaug, Knut Dahl-Jørgensen, Marit Graue
Evaluation of health related quality of life in irritable bowel syndrome patients
Raika Jamali, Arsia Jamali, Maryam Poorrahnama, Abdollah Omidi, Bardia Jamali, Neda Moslemi, Reza Ansari, Shahab Dolatshahi, Naser Ebrahimi Daryani
The proxy problem anatomized: child-parent disagreement in health related quality of life reports of chronically ill adolescents
Jane NT Sattoe, AnneLoes van Staa, Henriëtte A Moll
An assessment of the construct validity of the ASCOT measure of social care-related quality of life with older people
Juliette N Malley, Ann-Marie Towers, Ann P Netten, John E Brazier, Julien E Forder, Terry Flynn
Discussing study limitations in reports of biomedical studies- the need for more transparency
Milo A Puhan, Elie A Akl, Dianne Bryant, Feng Xie, Giovanni Apolone, Gerben ter Riet
The Achilles tendon total rupture score: a study of responsiveness, internal consistency and convergent validity on patients with acute Achilles tendon ruptures
Rebecca S Kearney, Juul Achten, Sarah E Lamb, Nicholas Parsons, Matthew L Costa
Validity and reliability of the Iranian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) Generic Core Scales in children
Parisa Amiri, Ghazaleh Eslamian, Parvin Mirmiran, Niloofar Shiva, Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi, Fereidoun Azizi
The validity and precision of the leicester cough questionnaire in COPD patients with chronic cough
Farida F Berkhof, Lisenka N Boom, Nynke E ten Hertog, Steven M Uil, Huib AM Kerstjens, Jan WK van den Berg
Physical activity and change in quality of life during menopause -an 8-year follow-up study
Jaana M Moilanen, Anna-Mari Aalto, Jani Raitanen, Elina Hemminki, Arja R Aro, Riitta Luoto
Development of six PROMIS pediatrics proxy-report item banks
Debra E Irwin, Heather E Gross, Brian D Stucky, David Thissen, Esi Morgan DeWitt, Jin Shei Lai, Dagmar Amtmann, Leyla Khastou, James W Varni, Darren A DeWalt
Preliminary development and psychometric evaluation of an unmet needs measure for adolescents and young adults with cancer: the Cancer Needs Questionnaire - Young People (CNQ-YP)
Tara Clinton-McHarg, Mariko Carey, Rob Sanson-Fisher, Catherine D'Este, Anthony Shakeshaft
Measurement equivalence of the SF-36 in the canadian multicentre osteoporosis study
Lisa M Lix, Beliz Acan Osman, Jonathan D Adachi, Tanveer Towheed, Wilma Hopman, K Shawn Davison, William D Leslie
Stress and health related quality of life of Nepalese students studying in South Korea: A cross sectional study
Pratibha Bhandari
Impact of self-rated osteoarthritis severity in an employed population: Cross-sectional analysis of data from the national health and wellness survey
Marco daCosta DiBonaventura, Shaloo Gupta, Margaret McDonald, Alesia Sadosky, Dan Pettitt, Stuart Silverman
Factors associated with non-response in routine use of patient reported outcome measures after elective surgery in England
Andrew Hutchings, Jenny Neuburger, Kirstin Grosse Frie, Nick Black, Jan van der Meulen
Construction of the descriptive system for the assessment of quality of life AQoL-6D utility instrument
Jeffrey RJ Richardson, Stuart J Peacock, Graeme Hawthorne, Angelo Iezzi, Gerald Elsworth, Neil A Day
Linguistic validation of translation of the self-assessment goal achievement (saga) questionnaire from English
Elisabeth Piault, Sameepa Doshi, Barbara A Brandt, Çolpan Angün, Christopher J Evans, Agneta Bergqvist, Jeffrey Trocio
Experiences of patients with chronic gastrointestinal conditions: in their own words
Jennifer B McCormick, Rachel R Hammer, Ruth M Farrell, Gail Geller, Katherine M James, Edward V Loftus Jr, Mary Beth Mercer, Jon C Tilburt, Richard R Sharp
Patient-reported physical activity questionnaires: A systematic review of content and format
Kate Williams, Anja Frei, Anders Vetsch, Fabienne Dobbels, Milo A Puhan, Katja Rüdell
The application of the drug user quality of life scale (DUQOL) in Australia
Carlos Zubaran, Jonathan Emerson, Rishi Sud, Elham Zolfaghari, Katia Foresti
The Chinese version of the cardiac depression scale: Mokken scaling
Roger Watson, Wenru Wang, David L Hare, Chantal F Ski, David R Thompson
Using Rasch rating scale model to reassess the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the PedsQLTM 4.0 Generic Core Scales in school children
Peyman Jafari, Zahra Bagheri, Seyyed Mohamad Taghi Ayatollahi, Zahra Soltani
Impact of psychological problems in chemical warfare survivors with severe ophthalmologic complication, a cross sectional study
Gholamhosein Ghaedi, Hassan Ghasemi, Batool Mousavi, Mohammad Reza Soroush, Parvin Rahnama, Farhad Jafari, Siamak Afshin-Majd, Maryam Sadeghi Naeeni, Mohammad Mehdi Naghizadeh
Participation and quality of life in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health
Roxanna M Bendixen, Claudia Senesac, Donovan J Lott, Krista Vandenborne
The discriminative power of the EuroQol visual analog scale is sensitive to survey language in Singapore
Nan Luo, Sheng-Qun Cang, Hui-Min Joanne Quah, Choon-How How, Ee Guan Tay
Health-related quality of life advantage of long-acting injectable antipsychotic treatment for schizophrenia: a time trade-off study
Richard H Osborne, Andrew Dalton, Judy Hertel, Rudolf Schrover, Dell Kingsford Smith
Efficacy-mediated effects of spirituality and physical activity on quality of life: A path analysis
James F Konopack, Edward McAuley
Identification of aspects of functioning, disability and health relevant to patients experiencing vertigo: a qualitative study using the international classification of functioning, disability and health
Martin Mueller, Edith Schuster, Ralf Strobl, Eva Grill
EQ-5D™-derived utility values for different levels of migraine severity from a UK sample of migraineurs
Megan R Stafford, Asha Hareendran, Daisy S Ng-Mak, Ralph P Insinga, Ruifeng Xu, Donald E Stull
Distance saturation product predicts health–related quality of life among sarcoidosis patients
Julie M Bourbonnais, Subramanian Malaisamy, Bhavinkumar D Dalal, Priyan C Samarakoon, Swapna R Parikh, Lobelia Samavati
Comparison of health-related quality of life among patients using atypical antipsychotics for treatment of depression: results from the National Health and Wellness Survey
Iftekhar Kalsekar, Jan-Samuel Wagner, Marco DiBonaventura, Jay Bates, Robert Forbes, Tony Hebden
Hemoglobin A1c improvements and better diabetes-specific quality of life among participants completing diabetes self-management programs: A nested cohort study
Abhinav Khanna, Amber L Bush, J Michael Swint, Melissa Fleschler Peskin, Richard L Street Jr, Aanand D Naik
Developing a new self-reported scale of oral health outcomes for 5-year-old children (SOHO-5)
Georgios Tsakos, Yvonne I Blair, Huda Yusuf, William Wright, Richard G Watt, Lorna M D Macpherson
Parental stress when caring for a child with cancer in Jordan: a cross-sectional survey
Rami Masa’Deh, Jacqueline Collier, Carol Hall
Quality of life in patients with acne in Erbil city
Kameran Hassan Ismail, Khalis Bilal Mohammed-Ali
Posttraumatic growth, depressive symptoms, posttraumatic stress symptoms, post-migration stressors and quality of life in multi-traumatized psychiatric outpatients with a refugee background in Norway
Dinu-Stefan Teodorescu, Johan Siqveland, Trond Heir, Edvard Hauff, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, Lars Lien
Psychometric properties of the disease-specific health-related quality of life instrument VascuQoL in a Swedish setting
Joakim Nordanstig, Jan Karlsson, Monica Pettersson, Christine Wann-Hansson
Enhancing rigour in the validation of patient reported outcome measures (PROMs): bridging linguistic and psychometric testing
Gwerfyl Roberts, Seren Roberts, Richard Tranter, Rhiannon Whitaker, Emma Bedson, Siobhan Tranter, Delyth Prys, Heledd Owen, Yvonne Sylvestre
Psychometric properties of the German version of the MacNew heart disease health-related quality of life questionnaire
Lukas Gramm, Erik Farin, Wilfried H Jaeckel
Reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Psoriasis Disability Index (PDI) in Chinese patients with psoriasis
Zehui He, Chuanjian Lu, Aihua Ou, Jiqian Fang, Dongmei Wang, Jingwen Deng, Zhongzhao Zhang, Jingjie Yu
Short form of the Changes in Outlook Questionnaire: Translation and validation of the Chinese version
Yinyin Zang, Nigel C Hunt, Tom Cox, Stephen Joseph
Validation of the Japanese version of the EORTC hepatocellular carcinoma-specific quality of life questionnaire module (QLQ-HCC18)
Naoko Mikoshiba, Ryosuke Tateishi, Makoto Tanaka, Tomoko Sakai, Jane M Blazeby, Norihiro Kokudo, Kazuhiko Koike, Keiko Kazuma
Validity and reliability of the Korean version of the pediatric quality of life ESRD module
Ki-Soo Park, Min Hyun Cho, Il Soo Ha, Hee Gyung Kang, Hae Il Cheong, Young Seo Park, Yoon Jung Lee, Joo Hoon Lee, Hee Yeon Cho
Health-related quality of life among children with mental health problems: a population-based approach
Michelle Dey, Meichun Mohler-Kuo, Markus A Landolt
Translation and validation of the EORTC brain cancer module (EORTC QLQ-BN20) for use in Iran
Alireza Khoshnevisan, Mir Saeed Yekaninejad, Shahab Kamali Ardakani, Amir H Pakpour, Azam Mardani, Neil K Aaronson
Quality of life among tuberculosis (TB), TB retreatment and/or TB-HIV co-infected primary public health care patients in three districts in South Africa
Julia Louw, Karl Peltzer, Pamela Naidoo, Gladys Matseke, Gugu Mchunu, Bomkazi Tutshana
The PedsQL™ Oral Health Scale: feasibility, reliability and validity of the Brazilian Portuguese version
Cristiane B Bendo, Saul M Paiva, Claudia M Viegas, Miriam P Vale, James W Varni
Health related quality of life outcomes for unresectable stage III or IV melanoma patients receiving ipilimumab treatment
Dennis A Revicki, Alfons JM van den Eertwegh, Paul Lorigan, Celeste Lebbe, Gerald Linette, Christian H Ottensmeier, Shima Safikhani, Marianne Messina, Axel Hoos, Samuel Wagner, Srividya Kotapati
Validation of the osteoporosis quality of life questionnaire QUALEFFO-41 for the Serbian population
Ivana Tadic, Nada Vujasinovic Stupar, Ljiljana Tasic, Dejan Stevanovic, Aleksandar Dimic, Bojana Stamenkovic, Sonja Stojanovic, Sasa Milenkovic
Development and validation of a new Arrhythmia-Specific questionnaire in Tachycardia and Arrhythmia (ASTA) with focus on symptom burden
Ulla Walfridsson, Kristofer Arestedt, Anna Stromberg
QLiS – development of a schizophrenia-specific quality-of-life scale
Michael Franz, Michael Fritz, Bernd Gallhofer, Thorsten Meyer
Long term follow-up of health-related quality of life in young adults born very preterm or with a very low birth weight
Gijsbert Verrips, Leonoor Brouwer, Ton Vogels, Erik Taal, Constance Drossaert, David Feeny, Marieke Verheijden, Pauline Verloove-Vanhorick
The relationship between quality of life, health and care transition: an empirical comparison in an older post-acute population
Leah Couzner, Julie Ratcliffe, Maria Crotty
Associations between demographic, disease related, and treatment pathway related variables and health related quality of life in primary care patients with coronary heart disease
Lena Kramer, Oliver Hirsch, Kathrin Schlöβler, Susanne Träger, Erika Baum, Norbert Donner-Banzhoff
Mortality and health-related quality of life in prevalent dialysis patients: Comparison between 12-items and 36-items short-form health survey
Tone Brit Hortemo Østhus, Valjbona Tiric Preljevic, Leiv Sandvik, Torbjørn Leivestad, Inger Hilde Nordhus, Toril Dammen, Ingrid Os
A Malay version of the Child Oral Impacts on Daily Performances (Child-OIDP) index: assessing validity and reliability
Zamros YM Yusof, Nasruddin Jaafar
Prevalence and impacts of poor sleep on quality of life and associated factors of good sleepers in a sample of older Chinese adults
Catherine MH Lo, Paul H Lee
Factorial validation of the patient assessment of chronic illness care (PACIC) and PACIC short version (PACIC-S) among cardiovascular disease patients in the Netherlands
Jane Murray Cramm, Anna Petra Nieboer
Validation of a new tool to assess health-related quality of life in psoriasis: the PSO-LIFE questionnaire
Esteban Dauden, Enrique Herrera, Lluis Puig, José Luis Sánchez-Carazo, Jaime Toribio, Ma Teresa Caloto, Gonzalo Nocea, Montse Roset, Nuria Lara
Development of the multi-attribute Adolescent Health Utility Measure (AHUM)
Kathleen M Beusterien, Jean-Ezra Yeung, Francis Pang, John Brazier
Health-related quality of life in different clinical subgroups with typical AFL who have undergone cavo-tricuspid isthmus ablation
Javier García Seara, Francisco Gude, Pilar Cabanas, José L Martínez-Sande, Xesús Fernández López, Antonio Hernández Madrid, Concepción Moro, José González Juanatey R
Changes in health-related quality of life in people with morbid obesity attending a learning and mastery course. A longitudinal study with 12-months follow-up
Randi Andenæs, May S Fagermoen, Hilde Eide, Anners Lerdal
The assessment of generalized anxiety disorder: psychometric validation of the Spanish version of the self-administered GAD-2 scale in daily medical practice
Javier García-Campayo, Enric Zamorano, Miguel A Ruiz, María Pérez-Páramo, Vanessa López-Gómez, Javier Rejas
French-language version of the World Health Organization quality of life spirituality, religiousness and personal beliefs instrument
Olfa Mandhouj, Jean-François Etter, Delphine Courvoisier, Henri-Jean Aubin
Quality of life themes in Canadian adults and street youth who are homeless or hard-to-house: A multi-site focus group study
Anita Palepu, Anita M Hubley, Lara B Russell, Anne M Gadermann, Mary Chinni
Physical activity and quality of life in severely obese individuals seeking bariatric surgery or lifestyle intervention
Dale S Bond, Jessica L Unick, John M Jakicic, Sivamainthan Vithiananthan, Jennifer Trautvetter, Kevin CO’Leary, Rena R Wing
An observational study of patient versus parental perceptions of health-related quality of life in children and adolescents with a chronic pain condition: who should the clinician believe?
Thomas R Vetter, Cynthia L Bridgewater, Gerald McGwin Jr
Understanding determinants of nutrition, physical activity and quality of life among older adults: the Wellbeing, Eating and Exercise for a Long Life (WELL) study
Sarah A McNaughton, David Crawford, Kylie Ball, Jo Salmon
The Anti-Clot Treatment Scale (ACTS) in clinical trials: cross-cultural validation in venous thromboembolism patients
Stefan J Cano, Donna L Lamping, Luke Bamber, Sarah Smith
Oral health-related quality of life in an aging Canadian population
Robert D Kotzer, Herenia P Lawrence, Joanne B Clovis, Debora C Matthews
World assumptions, posttraumatic stress and quality of life after a natural disaster: A longitudinal study
Egil Nygaard, Trond Heir
A cross sectional assessment of health related quality of life among patients with Hepatitis-B in Pakistan
Noman ul Haq, Mohamed Azmi Hassali, Asrul A Shafie, Fahad Saleem, Hisham Aljadhey
Validity of two common asthma-specific quality of life questionnaires: Juniper mini asthma quality of life questionnaire and Sydney asthma quality of life questionnaire
Christian Joachim Apfelbacher, Christina Jones, Matthew Hankins, Helen Smith
Preterm children quality of life evaluation: a qualitative study to approach physicians’ perception
Marie-Ange Einaudi, Marie-Claude Simeoni, Catherine Gire, Pierre Le Coz, Sophie Condopoulos, Pascal Auquier
Validation of the Neurological Fatigue Index for stroke (NFI-Stroke)
Roger J Mills, Julie F Pallant, Maria Koufali, Anil Sharma, Suzanne Day, Alan Tennant, Carolyn A Young
Rasch analysis of the Mini-Mental Adjustment to Cancer Scale (mini-MAC) among a heterogeneous sample of long-term cancer survivors: A cross-sectional study
Alison Zucca, Sylvie D Lambert, Allison W Boyes, Julie F Pallant
Measuring patient experiences in Fabry disease: validation of the Fabry-specific Pediatric Health and Pain Questionnaire (FPHPQ)
Uma Ramaswami, Donald E Stull, Rossella Parini, Guillem Pintos-Morell, Catharina Whybra, Gisela Kalkum, Marianne Rohrbach, Mireia Raluy-Callado, Michael Beck, Wen-Hung Chen, Ingela Wiklund
Linking the Tinnitus Questionnaire and the subjective Clinical Global Impression: Which differences are clinically important?
Ilya Adamchic, Peter Alexander Tass, Berthold Langguth, Christian Hauptmann, Michael Koller, Martin Schecklmann, Florian Zeman, Michael Landgrebe
Comparison of the burden of illness for adults with ADHD across seven countries: a qualitative study
Meryl Brod, Betsy Pohlman, Robert Lasser, Paul Hodgkins
Development of a disease-specific quality of life questionnaire for adult patients with hereditary angioedema due to C1 inhibitor deficiency (HAE-QoL): Spanish multi-centre research project
Nieves Prior, Eduardo Remor, Carmen Gómez-Traseira, Concepción López-Serrano, Rosario Cabañas, Javier Contreras, Ángel Campos, Victoria Cardona, Stefan Cimbollek, Teresa González-Quevedo, Mar Guilarte, Dolores Hernández Fernández de Rojas, Carmen Marcos, María Rubio, Miguel Ángel Tejedor-Alonso, Teresa Caballero
Health-related quality of life in family members of patients with an advanced cancer diagnosis: A one-year prospective study
Catarina Sjolander, Bo Rolander, Johannes Järhult, Jan Mårtensson, Gerd Ahlstrom
A pilot randomized controlled trial of the feasibility of a self-directed coping skills intervention for couples facing prostate cancer: Rationale and design
Sylvie D Lambert, Afaf Girgis, Jane Turner, Patrick McElduff, Karen Kayser, Paula Vallentine
Improvement of health-related quality of life in depression after transcranial magnetic stimulation in a naturalistic trial is associated with decreased perfusion in precuneus
Rémy Dumas, Raphaëlle Richieri, Eric Guedj, Pascal Auquier, Christophe Lancon, Laurent Boyer
Quality of life among women with sexual dysfunction undergoing hemodialysis: a cross-sectional observational study
Paulo Roberto Santos, José Roberto Frota Gomes Capote Júnior, Juliana Uchoa Cavalcanti, Cyntia Brito Vieira, Ana Rochelle Mesquita Rocha, Natália Alves Mineiro Apolônio, Elaine Barbosa de Oliveira
Estimating quality adjusted progression free survival of first-line treatments for EGFR mutation positive non small cell lung cancer patients in The Netherlands
S Cora Verduyn, Bonne Biesma, Franz MNH Schramel, Feike W van der Scheer, Merel K Langenfeld, Maria A de Peuter, Anne-Marie C Dingemans
The German adaptation of the Cambridge pulmonary hypertension outcome review (CAMPHOR)
Katharina Cima, James Twiss, Rudolf Speich, Stephen P McKenna, Ekkehard Grünig, Christian M Kähler, Nicola Ehlken, Ursula Treder, Sigrid R Crawford, Lars C Huber, Silvia Ulrich
Peer support and improved quality of life among persons living with HIV on antiretroviral treatment: A randomised controlled trial from north-eastern Vietnam
Vu Van Tam, Mattias Larsson, Anastasia Pharris, Björn Diedrichs, Hoa Phuong Nguyen, Chuc Thi Kim Nguyen, Phuc Dang Ho, Gaetano Marrone, Anna Thorson
Change in health status (EQ-5D) over 5 years among individuals with and without type 2 diabetes mellitus in the SHIELD longitudinal study
Susan Grandy, Kathleen M Fox
Examining fatigue in COPD: development, validity and reliability of a modified version of FACIT-F scale
Khaled Al-shair, Hana Muellerova, Janelle Yorke, Stephen I Rennard, Emiel FM Wouters, Nicola A Hanania, Amir Sharafkhaneh, Jørgen Vestbo
Correlations between disease-specific and generic health status questionnaires in patients with advanced COPD: a one-year observational study
Sarah Wilke, Daisy JA Janssen, Emiel FM Wouters, Jos MGA Schols, Frits ME Franssen, Martijn A Spruit
Physical violence and health-related quality of life: Danish cross-sectional analyses
Jan Sørensen, Marie Kruse, Claire Gudex, Karin Helweg-Larsen, Henrik Brønnum-Hansen
An exploratory study of the perceived impact of health problems of landmine/UXO victims versus another disability group
Russell B Wyper
Patients undergoing subacute rehabilitation have accurate expectations of their health-related quality of life at discharge
Steven McPhail, Terry Haines
Psychometric evaluation of the Taiwan Chinese version of the EORTC QLQ-PR25 for HRQOL assessment in prostate cancer patients
Yu-Jun Chang, Wen-Miin Liang, Hsi-Chin Wu, Hsueh-Chun Lin, Jong-Yi Wang, Tsai-Chung Li, Yi-Chun Yeh, Chih-Hung Chang
Psychometric properties of the Sinhala version of the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales in early adolescents in Sri Lanka
Manjula Nishanthi Danansuriya, Lalini C Rajapaksa
Comparison of the OHIP-14 and GOHAI as measures of oral health among elderly in Lebanon
Nada El Osta, Stephanie Tubert-Jeannin, Martine Hennequin, Nada Bou Abboud Naaman, Lana El Osta, Negib Geahchan
Tophi and frequent gout flares are associated with impairments to quality of life, productivity, and increased healthcare resource use: Results from a cross-sectional survey
Puja P Khanna, George Nuki, Thomas Bardin, Anne-Kathrin Tausche, Anna Forsythe, Amir Goren, Jeffrey Vietri, Dinesh Khanna
Cross-cultural adaptation of the CHO-KLAT for boys with hemophilia in rural and urban china
Runhui Wu, Jishui Zhang, Koon Hung Luke, Xinyi Wu, Tricia Burke, Ling Tang, Man-Chiu Poon, Xiaojing Li, Min Zhou, Jing Sun, Marrisa Hang, Victor Blanchette, Nancy L Young
The multiple sclerosis rating scale, revised (MSRS-R): Development, refinement, and psychometric validation using an online community
Paul Wicks, Timothy E Vaughan, Michael P Massagli
Personal preferences and discordant prostate cancer treatment choice in an intervention trial of men newly diagnosed with localized prostate cancer
Jaclyn LF Bosco, Barbara Halpenny, Donna L Berry
The importance of rating scales in measuring patient-reported outcomes
Jyoti Khadka, Vijaya K Gothwal, Colm McAlinden, Ecosse L Lamoureux, Konrad Pesudovs
Validation study of the prototype of a disease-specific index measure for health-related quality of life in dementia
Carla J M Schölzel-Dorenbos, Alexander M M Arons, Joost J G Wammes, Marcel G M Olde Rikkert, Paul F M Krabbe
Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Cervix (FACT-Cx) measuring health-related quality of life
Yan Ding, Yan Hu, Ingalill R Hallberg
Health related quality of life assessment in Pakistani paediatric cancer patients using PedsQLTM 4.0 generic core scale and PedsQL™ cancer module
Zainab Chaudhry, Salma Siddiqui
Retrospective evaluation versus population norms for the measurement of baseline health status
Ross Wilson, Sarah Derrett, Paul Hansen, John Langley
Health-related quality of life in different stages of chronic kidney disease and at initiation of dialysis treatment
Agneta A Pagels, Birgitta Klang Söderkvist, Charlotte Medin, Britta Hylander, Susanne Heiwe
Health-related quality of life in patients with dual diagnosis: clinical correlates
Irina Benaiges, Gemma Prat, Ana Adan
Frequency vs. intensity: which should be used as anchors for self-report instruments?
Julia Krabbe, Thomas Forkmann
A cross-sectional survey of quality of life in colostomates: a report from Iran
Bahar Mahjoubi, Rezvan Mirzaei, Rasoul Azizi, Mehdi Jafarinia, Leila Zahedi-Shoolami
Effects of physical therapy on quality of life in osteoporosis patients - a randomized clinical trial
Guido Schröder, Andreas Knauerhase, Guenther Kundt, Hans-Christof Schober
Psychometric Assessment of the Injection Pen Assessment Questionnaire (IPAQ): measuring ease of use and preference with injection pens for human growth hormone
Andreas M Pleil, Miriam Kimel, Julie McCormack, Natasa Rajicic, Judith Hey-Hadavi
The effect of empowerment on the self-efficacy, quality of life and clinical and laboratory indicators of patients treated with hemodialysis: a randomized controlled trial
Marzieh Moattari, Marzieh Ebrahimi, Nasrin Sharifi, Jamshid Rouzbeh
Validation of the functional assessment of cancer therapy-gastric module for the Chinese population
Hui Jun Zhou, Jimmy BY So, Wei Peng Yong, Nan Luo, Feng Zhu, Nasheen Naidoo, Shu Chuen Li, Khay Guan Yeoh
Validation of the Orofacial Esthetic Scale in the general population
Mike T John, Pernilla Larsson, Krister Nilner, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay, Thomas List
Procreative sex in infertile couples: the decay of pleasure?
Roberto Marci, Angela Graziano, Isabella Piva, Giuseppe Lo Monte, Ilaria Soave, Emilio Giugliano, Silvia Mazzoni, Roberta Capucci, Maria Carbonara, Stefano Caracciolo, Alfredo Patella
Impact of natalizumab on patient-reported outcomes in multiple sclerosis: a longitudinal study
Judith J Stephenson, David M Kern, Sonalee S Agarwal, Ruth Zeidman, Krithika Rajagopalan, Siddhesh A Kamat, John Foley
Development and validation of the self-management profile for type 2 diabetes (SMP-T2D)
Mark Peyrot, Donald M Bushnell, Jennie H Best, Mona L Martin, Ann Cameron, Donald L Patrick
Tinnitus assessment by means of standardized self-report questionnaires: Psychometric properties of the Tinnitus Questionnaire (TQ), the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI), and their short versions in an international and multi-lingual sample
Florian Zeman, Michael Koller, Martin Schecklmann, Berthold Langguth, Michael Landgrebe
Association of anemia with worsened activities of daily living and health-related quality of life scores derived from the Minimum Data Set in long-term care residents
Robert A Bailey, Gregory Reardon, Michael R Wasserman, R Scott McKenzie, R Steve Hord
Validation of the Spanish version of the Lawton IADL Scale for its application in elderly people
Itziar Vergara, Amaia Bilbao, Miren Orive, Susana Garcia-Gutierrez, Gemma Navarro, José María Quintana
Quality of life profile and psychometric properties of the EQ-5D-5L in HIV/AIDS patients
Bach Xuan Tran, Arto Ohinmaa, Long Thanh Nguyen
Health-related quality of life and needs of care and support of adult Tanzanians with cancer: a mixed-methods study
Golden M Masika, Lena Wettergren, Thecla W Kohi, Louise von Essen
Characterizing the relationship between health utility and renal function after kidney transplantation in UK and US: a cross-sectional study
Luca Neri, Phil McEwan, Karin Sennfält, Kesh Baboolal
Cardiac Depression Scale: Mokken scaling in heart failure patients
Chantal F Ski, David R Thompson, David L Hare, Andrew G Stewart, Roger Watson
Health economics research into supporting carers of people with dementia: A systematic review of outcome measures
Carys Jones, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards, Barry Hounsome
Factors associated with health-related quality of life among Chinese caregivers of the older adults living in the community: a cross-sectional study
Xiaoshi Yang, Yiming Hao, Shernelle Marlah George, Lie Wang
The Barretos short instrument for assessment of quality of life (BSIqol): development and preliminary validation in a cohort of cancer patients undergoing antineoplastic treatment
Carlos Eduardo Paiva, Fernanda Capella Rugno, Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro Paiva
Mental health, quality of life and social relations in young adults born with low birth weight
Line K Lund, Torstein Vik, Stian Lydersen, Gro CC Løhaugen, Jon Skranes, Ann-Mari Brubakk, Marit S Indredavik
Validation of the Danish version of the disease specific instrument EORTC QLQ-CR38 to assess Health-related quality of life in patients with colorectal cancer
Henriette Vind Thaysen, P Jess, Søren Laurberg, M Groenvold
Mapping EORTC QLQ-C30 onto EQ-5D for the assessment of cancer patients
Seon Ha Kim, Min-Woo Jo, Hwa-Jung Kim, Jin-Hee Ahn
Severity, not type, is the main predictor of decreased quality of life in elderly women with urinary incontinence: a population-based study as part of a randomized controlled trial in primary care
Janka A Barentsen, Els Visser, Hedwig Hofstetter, Anna M Maris, Janny H Dekker, Geertruida H de Bock
Item and response-category functioning of the Persian version of the KIDSCREEN-27: Rasch partial credit model
Peyman Jafari, Zahra Bagheri, Mozhgan Safe
Health-related quality of life (HRQL) for individuals with self-reported chronic physical and/or mental health conditions: panel survey of an adult sample in the United States
Martha Bayliss, Regina Rendas-Baum, Michelle K White, Mark Maruish, Jakob Bjorner, Sandra L Tunis
Review of patient-reported outcome measures in chronic hepatitis C
Leah Kleinman, Sally Mannix, Yong Yuan, Shannon Kummer, Gilbert L’Italien, Dennis Revicki
Systematic review of health-related quality of life models
Tamilyn Bakas, Susan M McLennon, Janet S Carpenter, Janice M Buelow, Julie L Otte, Kathleen M Hanna, Marsha L Ellett, Kimberly A Hadler, Janet L Welch
Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the South African Pain Catastrophizing Scale (SA-PCS) among patients with fibromyalgia
Linzette D Morris, Karen A Grimmer-Somers, Quinette A Louw, Michael J Sullivan
Validation of a mobility item bank for older patients in primary care
Julio Cabrero-García, Juan Diego Ramos-Pichardo, Carmen Luz Muñoz-Mendoza, María José Cabañero-Martínez, Lorena González-Llopis, Abilio Reig-Ferrer
Beliefs about chelation among thalassemia patients
Felicia L Trachtenberg, Lauren Mednick, Janet L Kwiatkowski, Ellis J Neufeld, Dru Haines, Zahra Pakbaz, Alexis A Thompson, Charles T Quinn, Robert Grady, Amy Sobota, Nancy Olivieri, Robert Horne, Robert Yamashita
Evaluating the responsiveness of the Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMWBS): Group and individual level analysis
Hendramoorthy Maheswaran, Scott Weich, John Powell, Sarah Stewart-Brown
Quality of life of people with mental health problems: a synthesis of qualitative research
Janice Connell, John Brazier, Alicia O’Cathain, Myfanwy Lloyd-Jones, Suzy Paisley
Systematic review: Do patient expectations influence treatment outcomes in total knee and total hip arthroplasty?
Tsjitske M Haanstra, Tobias van den Berg, Raymond W Ostelo, Rudolf W Poolman, Ilse P Jansma, Pim Cuijpers, Henrica CW de Vet
Screening for depressed mood in an adolescent psychiatric context by brief self-assessment scales – testing psychometric validity of WHO-5 and BDI-6 indices by latent trait analyses
Eva Henje Blom, Per Bech, Göran Högberg, Jan Olov Larsson, Eva Serlachius