Quality of Life Research

Quality of life in older people: A structured review of generic self-assessed health instruments

K. L. Haywood, A. M. Garratt, R. Fitzpatrick

The feasibility, reliability and validity of the McGill Quality of Life Questionnaire-Cardiff Short Form (MQOL-CSF) in palliative care population

Pei Lin Lua, Sam Salek, Ilora Finlay, Chris Lloyd-Richards

Measuring treatment satisfaction in patients with primary immunodeficiency diseases receiving lifelong immunoglobulin replacement therapy

U. Nicolay, S. Haag, F. Eichmann, S. Herget, D. Spruck, A. Gardulf

Validity of an abbreviated Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire (Q-LES-Q-18) for schizophrenia, schizoaffective,and mood disorder patients

Michael Ritsner, Rena Kurs, Anatoly Gibel, Yael Ratner, Jean Endicott

Quality of life of people with venous leg ulcers: A comparison of the discriminative and responsive characteristics of two generic and a disease specific instruments

Cynthia P. lglesias, Yvonne Birks, Elizabeth A. Nelson, Elizabeth Scanlon, Nicky A. Cullum

Adaptation, response-shift and quality of life ratings in mentally well and unwell groups

Sherrill Evans, Peter Huxley

How important are mens lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) and their impact on the quality of life (QOL)?

J. Haltbakk, B. R. Hanestad, S. Hunskaar

The impact of the VF-14 index, a perceived visual function measure, in the routine management of cataract patients

J. M. Valderas, M. Rue, G. Guyatt, J. Alonso

Ethnic differences in quality of life in adolescents among Chinese, Malay and Indians in Singapore

Tze Pin Ng, Lionel Chee Chong Lim, Aizhen Jin, N. Shinfuku

Psychometrics of child health questionnaire parent short form (CHQ-28) used to measure quality of life in HIV-infected children on complex anti-retroviral therapy

Mary Woods Byrne, Judy Honig

Preliminary evidence on the measurement properties of the Chinese version of the child health questionnaire, parent form (CHQ-PF50) and child form (CHQ-CF87)

J. Y. Y. Ng, J. M. Landgraf, C. S. W. Chiu, N. L. Cheng, Y. F. Cheung

Validity and reliability of the Bangla version of WHOQOL-BREF on an adolescent population in Bangladesh

Takashi Izutsu, Atsuro Tsutsumi, Md. Akramul Islam, Yusuke Matsuo, Helena Sayuri Yamada, Hiroshi Kurita, Susumu Wakai

Linguistic Validation Manual for Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) Instruments, By C. Acquadro, K. Conway, C. Girourdet & I. Mear, MAPI ResearchTrust, Lyon, France, 2004,184 pp, ISBN: 2-9522021-0-9, price €70/$90.

Michael Koller, Karen West

Erratum: H. Heinonen, A.R. Aro, A.-M. Aalto and A. Uutela, ‘‘Is the evaluation of the global qulity of life determined by emotional status?”, Quality of Life Research 2004; 13(8): 1347–1356.