Ausgabe 1/2006
Inhalt (97 Artikel)
Health-related quality of life in parents of school-age children with Asperger syndrome or high-functioning autism
Hiie Allik, Jan-Olov Larsson, Hans Smedje
Quality of life and pain in premenopausal women with major depressive disorder: The POWER Study
Jill M Hartman, Ann Berger, Karen Baker, Jacques Bolle, Daniel Handel, Andrew Mannes, Donna Pereira, Diane St Germain, Donna Ronsaville, Nina Sonbolian, Sara Torvik, Karim A Calis, Terry M Phillips, Giovanni Cizza
Health-related quality of life in patients waiting for major joint replacement. A comparison between patients and population controls
Johanna Hirvonen, Marja Blom, Ulla Tuominen, Seppo Seitsalo, Matti Lehto, Pekka Paavolainen, Kalevi Hietaniemi, Pekka Rissanen, Harri Sintonen
Short forms of the Child Perceptions Questionnaire for 11–14-year-old children (CPQ11–14): Development and initial evaluation
Aleksandra Jokovic, David Locker, Gordan Guyatt
Gender differences in health-related quality of life of adolescents with cystic fibrosis
Renata Arrington-Sanders, Michael S Yi, Joel Tsevat, Robert W Wilmott, Joseph M Mrus, Maria T Britto
Structural ambiguity of the Chinese version of the hospital anxiety and depression scale in patients with coronary heart disease
Wenru Wang, Violeta Lopez, David Thompson, Colin R Martin
Pain in cancer. An outcome research project to evaluate the epidemiology, the quality and the effects of pain treatment in cancer patients
Giovanni Apolone, Oscar Bertetto, Augusto Caraceni, Oscar Corli, Franco De Conno, Roberto Labianca, Marco Maltoni, Mariaflavia Nicora, Valter Torri, Furio Zucco
The effect of inpatient rehabilitation programmes on quality of life in patients with cystic fibrosis: A multi-center study
Tim G Schmitz, Lutz Goldbeck
An integrated psychological strategy for advanced colorectal cancer patients
Patrizia Pugliese, Maria Perrone, Enrica Nisi, Carlo Garufi, Diana Giannarelli, Andrew Bottomley, Edmondo Terzoli
Using individual growth model to analyze the change in quality of life from adolescence to adulthood
Henian Chen, Patricia Cohen
Better quality of life with neuropsychological improvement on HAART
Thomas D Parsons, Alyssa J Braaten, Colin D Hall, Kevin R Robertson
Factors associated with "Ikigai" among members of a public temporary employment agency for seniors (Silver Human Resources Centre) in Japan; gender differences
Kokoro Shirai, Hiroyasu Iso, Hideki Fukuda, Yasuhiro Toyoda, Toshio Takatorige, Kozo Tatara
Quick assessment of hopelessness: a cross-sectional study
Paul SF Yip, Yin Bun Cheung
Associations between health-related quality of life and demographics and health risks. Results from Rhode Island's 2002 behavioral risk factor survey
Yongwen Jiang, Jana Earl Hesser
Misinterpretation with norm-based scoring of health status in adults with type 1 diabetes
Alison L Supina, David H Feeny, Linda J Carroll, Jeffrey A Johnson
Psychometric properties of two measures of psychological well-being in adult growth hormone deficiency
Carolyn V McMillan, Clare Bradley, James Gibney, David L Russell-Jones, Peter H Sönksen
A cross-sectional study of health-related quality of life deficits in individuals with comorbid diabetes and cancer
Samantha L Bowker, Sheri L Pohar, Jeffrey A Johnson
Assessing normative cut points through differential item functioning analysis: An example from the adaptation of the Middlesex Elderly Assessment of Mental State (MEAMS) for use as a cognitive screening test in Turkey
Alan Tennant, Ayse A Küçükdeveci, Sehim Kutlay, Atilla H Elhan
Parsimonious and efficient assessment of health-related quality of life in osteoarthritis research: validation of the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) instrument
Kathryn Whitfield, Rachelle Buchbinder, Leonie Segal, Richard H Osborne
Comparison of the SF-6D and the EQ-5D in patients with coronary heart disease
Henk F van Stel, Erik Buskens
Health-related quality of life of irritable bowel syndrome patients in different cultural settings
Åshild Faresjö, Foteini Anastasiou, Christos Lionis, Saga Johansson, Mari-Ann Wallander, Tomas Faresjö
Impact of discussion on preferences elicited in a group setting
Ken Stein, Julie Ratcliffe, Ali Round, Ruairidh Milne, John E Brazier
Sensitivity as outcome measure of androgen replacement: the AMS scale
Lothar A Heinemann, Claudia Moore, Juergen C Dinger, Diana Stoehr
Do visual analogue scale (VAS) derived standard gamble (SG) utilities agree with Health Utilities Index utilities? A comparison of patient and community preferences for health status in rheumatoid arthritis patients
Amir Adel Rashidi, Aslam H Anis, Carlo A Marra
The PedsQL™ as a patient-reported outcome in children and adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: a population-based study
James W Varni, Tasha M Burwinkle
Synchrony of change in depressive symptoms, health status, and quality of life in persons with clinical depression
Paula H Diehr, Ann M Derleth, Stephen P McKenna, Mona L Martin, Donald M Bushnell, Gregory Simon, Donald L Patrick
Validation of a patient satisfaction questionnaire for anemia treatment, the PSQ-An
Robert J Nordyke, Chih-Hung Chang, Chiun-Fang Chiou, Joel F Wallace, Bin Yao, Lee S Schwartzberg
Sexual activity and perceived health among Finnish middle-aged women
Ansa Ojanlatva, Juha Mäkinen, Hans Helenius, Katariina Korkeila, Jari Sundell, Päivi Rautava
Improvement in quality of life measures in patients with refractory hepatitis C, responding to re-treatment with Pegylated interferon alpha -2b and ribavirin
Abraham Mathew, Laurie P Peiffer, Kathy Rhoades, Thomas J McGarrity
Negative impact of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on the health-related quality of life of patients. Results of the EPIDEPOC study
Pilar Carrasco Garrido, Javier de Miguel Díez, Javier Rejas Gutiérrez, Antonio Martín Centeno, Elena Gobartt Vázquez, Ángel Gil de Miguel, Marta García Carballo, Rodrigo Jiménez García
Quality of life and hormone use: new validation results of MRS scale
Jürgen Dinger, Thomas Zimmermann, Lothar AJ Heinemann, Diana Stoehr
Assessment of health-related quality of life in arthritis: conceptualization and development of five item banks using item response theory
Jacek A Kopec, Eric C Sayre, Aileen M Davis, Elizabeth M Badley, Michal Abrahamowicz, Lesley Sherlock, J Ivan Williams, Aslam H Anis, John M Esdaile
Prevalence of visual impairment in relation to the number of ophthalmologists in a given area: a nationwide approach
Antoine J Lafuma, Antoine P Brézin, Francis L Fagnani, Mounir Mesbah, Gilles H Berdeaux
Quality of life in patients with psoriasis
Monali J Bhosle, Amit Kulkarni, Steven R Feldman, Rajesh Balkrishnan
Measuring the impact and distress of health problems from the individual's perspective: development of the Perceived Impact of Problem Profile (PIPP)
Julie F Pallant, RoseAnne Misajon, Elizabeth Bennett, Lenore Manderson
Physical activity is related to quality of life in older adults
Luke S Acree, Jessica Longfors, Anette S Fjeldstad, Cecilie Fjeldstad, Bob Schank, Kevin J Nickel, Polly S Montgomery, Andrew W Gardner
Validation of an English version of the Child-OIDP index, an oral health-related quality of life measure for children
Huda Yusuf, Sudaduang Gherunpong, Aubrey Sheiham, Georgios Tsakos
Health related quality of life in Malaysian children with thalassaemia
Adriana Ismail, Michael J Campbell, Hishamshah Mohd Ibrahim, Georgina L Jones
Development of the Well-being questionnaire short-form in Japanese: the W-BQ12
Afsane Riazi, Clare Bradley, Shalleen Barendse, Hitoshi Ishii
Public telesurveillance service for frail elderly living at home, outcomes and cost evolution: a quasi experimental design with two follow-ups
Claude Vincent, Daniel Reinharz, Isabelle Deaudelin, Mathieu Garceau, Lise R Talbot
Psychometric evaluation of the Osteoporosis Patient Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire (OPSAT-Q™), a novel measure to assess satisfaction with bisphosphonate treatment in postmenopausal women
Emuella M Flood, Kathleen M Beusterien, Hannah Green, Richard Shikiar, Robert W Baran, Mayur M Amonkar, David Cella
Health-related quality of life following a clinical weight loss intervention among overweight and obese adults: intervention and 24 month follow-up effects
Bryan Blissmer, Deborah Riebe, Gabriela Dye, Laurie Ruggiero, Geoffrey Greene, Marjorie Caldwell
Interest in healthy living outweighs presumed cultural norms for obesity for Ghanaian women
Rosemary B Duda, Naana Afua Jumah, Allan G Hill, Joseph Seffah, Richard Biritwum
Quality of life in patients with various Barrett's esophagus associated health states
Chin Hur, Eve Wittenberg, Norman S Nishioka, G Scott Gazelle
Japanese version of the Dermatology Life Quality Index: validity and reliability in patients with acne
Natsuko Takahashi, Yoshimi Suzukamo, Motonobu Nakamura, Yoshiki Miyachi, Joseph Green, Yukihiro Ohya, Andrew Y Finlay, Shunichi Fukuhara
Assessing the construct validity of the Italian version of the EQ-5D: preliminary results from a cross-sectional study in North Italy
Elena Savoia, Maria Pia Fantini, Pier Paolo Pandolfi, Laura Dallolio, Natalina Collina
Health-related quality of life in food hypersensitive schoolchildren and their families: parents' perceptions
Birgitta Marklund, Staffan Ahlstedt, Gun Nordström
Health related quality of life trajectories and predictors following coronary artery bypass surgery
Michael R Le Grande, Peter C Elliott, Barbara M Murphy, Marian UC Worcester, Rosemary O Higgins, Christine S Ernest, Alan J Goble
The OnyCOE-t™ questionnaire: responsiveness and clinical meaningfulness of a patient-reported outcomes questionnaire for toenail onychomycosis
Lori P Potter, Susan D Mathias, Monika Raut, Farid Kianifard, Amir Tavakkol
Evaluating preference weights for the Asthma Symptom Utility Index (ASUI) across countries
Emuella M Flood, Erwin De Cock, Ann-Christin Mörk, Dennis A Revicki
Validation of the Burden Index of Caregivers (BIC), a multidimensional short care burden scale from Japan
Mitsunori Miyashita, Aki Yamaguchi, Mami Kayama, Yugo Narita, Norikazu Kawada, Miki Akiyama, Akiko Hagiwara, Yoshimi Suzukamo, Shunichi Fukuhara
Decomposition of sources of income-related health inequality applied on SF-36 summary scores: a Danish health survey
Jens Gundgaard, Jørgen Lauridsen
Minimal changes in health status questionnaires: distinction between minimally detectable change and minimally important change
Henrica C de Vet, Caroline B Terwee, Raymond W Ostelo, Heleen Beckerman, Dirk L Knol, Lex M Bouter
Cross-diagnostic validity in a generic instrument: an example from the Functional Independence Measure in Scandinavia
Å Lundgren-Nilsson, A Tennant, G Grimby, KS Sunnerhagen
Psychometric properties and the prevalence, intensity and causes of oral impacts on daily performance (OIDP) in a population of older Tanzanians
IA Kida, AN Åstrøm, GV Strand, JR Masalu, G Tsakos
The validity of self-rated health as a measure of health status among young military personnel: evidence from a cross-sectional survey
Christopher K Haddock, Walker SC Poston, Sara A Pyle, Robert C Klesges, Mark W Vander Weg, Alan Peterson, Margaret Debon
Factors influencing agreement between child self-report and parent proxy-reports on the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) generic core scales
Joanne Cremeens, Christine Eiser, Mark Blades
Hydroxyurea and sickle cell anemia: effect on quality of life
Samir K Ballas, Franca B Barton, Myron A Waclawiw, Paul Swerdlow, James R Eckman, Charles H Pegelow, Mabel Koshy, Bruce A Barton, Duane R Bonds
Physician-estimated disease severity in patients with chronic heart or lung disease: a cross-sectional analysis
Kurt Kroenke, Kathleen W Wyrwich, William M Tierney, Ajit N Babu, Fredric D Wolinsky
Measuring health-related quality of life in young adolescents: Reliability and validity in the Norwegian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL) generic core scales
Trude Reinfjell, Trond H Diseth, Marijke Veenstra, Arne Vikan
Interpreting the results of patient reported outcome measures in clinical trials: The clinician's perspective
Holger J Schünemann, Elie A Akl, Gordon H Guyatt
Health-related quality of life in children with newly diagnosed cancer: a one year follow-up study
Markus A Landolt, Margarete Vollrath, Felix K Niggli, Hanspeter E Gnehm, Felix H Sennhauser
A promising method for identifying cross-cultural differences in patient perspective: the use of Internet-based focus groups for content validation of new Patient Reported Outcome assessments
Mark J Atkinson, Jan Lohs, Ilka Kuhagen, Julie Kaufman, Shamsu Bhaidani
Extending basic principles of measurement models to the design and validation of Patient Reported Outcomes
Mark J Atkinson, Richard D Lennox
Psychometric properties of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health-Related Quality of Life (CDC HRQOL) items in adults with arthritis
Thelma Mielenz, Elizabeth Jackson, Shannon Currey, Robert DeVellis, Leigh F Callahan
A comprehensive review of 46 exercise treatment studies in fibromyalgia (1988–2005)
Kim Dupree Jones, Dianne Adams, Kerri Winters-Stone, Carol S Burckhardt
A brief symptom index for advanced renal cell carcinoma
David T Eton, David Cella, Jennifer Bacik, Robert J Motzer
How a well-grounded minimal important difference can enhance transparency of labelling claims and improve interpretation of a patient reported outcome measure
Jan L Brożek, Gordon H Guyatt, Holger J Schünemann
Responsiveness and minimal important differences for patient reported outcomes
Dennis A Revicki, David Cella, Ron D Hays, Jeff A Sloan, William R Lenderking, Neil K Aaronson
The validity and responsiveness of three quality of life measures in the assessment of psoriasis patients: results of a phase II study
Richard Shikiar, Mary Kaye Willian, Martin M Okun, Christine S Thompson, Dennis A Revicki
Gender associated differences in determinants of quality of life in patients with COPD: a case series study
Juan P de Torres, Ciro Casanova, Concepción Hernández, Juan Abreu, Angela Montejo de Garcini, Armando Aguirre-Jaime, Bartolome R Celli
The impact of iron overload and its treatment on quality of life: results from a literature review
Linda Abetz, Jean-Francois Baladi, Paula Jones, Diana Rofail
Cost-utility of routine cataract surgery
Pirjo Räsänen, Kari Krootila, Harri Sintonen, Tiina Leivo, Anna-Maija Koivisto, Olli-Pekka Ryynänen, Marja Blom, Risto P Roine
The PedsQL™ Present Functioning Visual Analogue Scales: preliminary reliability and validity
Sandra A Sherman, Sarajane Eisen, Tasha M Burwinkle, James W Varni
Psychometric evaluation and predictive validity of Ryff's psychological well-being items in a UK birth cohort sample of women
Rosemary A Abbott, George B Ploubidis, Felicia A Huppert, Diana Kuh, Michael EJ Wadsworth, Tim J Croudace
The use of the SF-36 questionnaire in adult survivors of childhood cancer: evaluation of data quality, score reliability, and scaling assumptions
Raoul C Reulen, Maurice P Zeegers, Crispin Jenkinson, Emma R Lancashire, David L Winter, Meriel E Jenney, Mike M Hawkins
Feedback on the FDA's February 2006 draft guidance on Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) measures from a developer of PRO measures
Clare Bradley
Patient-reported outcomes in a trial of exenatide and insulin glargine for the treatment of type 2 diabetes
Kristina Secnik Boye, Louis S Matza, Alan Oglesby, Karen Malley, Sunny Kim, Risa P Hayes, Robert Brodows
Health-related quality of life of Canadian children and youth prenatally exposed to alcohol
Brenda C Stade, Bonnie Stevens, Wendy J Ungar, Joseph Beyene, Gideon Koren
Colonoscopic screening for colorectal cancer improves quality of life measures: a population-based screening study
Doug Taupin, Sharon L Chambers, Mike Corbett, Bruce Shadbolt
Positive and negative affect and oral health-related quality of life
David S Brennan, Kiran A Singh, A John Spencer, Kaye F Roberts-Thomson
Gynecologic oncology patients' satisfaction and symptom severity during palliative chemotherapy
Vivian E von Gruenigen, Jessica R Hutchins, Anne Marie Reidy, Heidi E Gibbons, Barbara J Daly, Elisa M Eldermire, Nancy L Fusco
The FDA guidance for industry on PROs: the point of view of a pharmaceutical company
Fabio Arpinelli, Francesco Bamfi
The impact of xerostomia on oral-health-related quality of life among younger adults
W Murray Thomson, Herenia P Lawrence, Jonathan M Broadbent, Richie Poulton
Reproducibility and responsiveness of the Symptom Severity Scale and the hand and finger function subscale of the Dutch arthritis impact measurement scales (Dutch-AIMS2-HFF) in primary care patients with wrist or hand problems
Marinda N Spies-Dorgelo, Caroline B Terwee, Wim AB Stalman, Daniëlle AWM van der Windt
Development and validation of the short version of the Psychological General Well-Being Index (PGWB-S)
Enzo Grossi, Nicola Groth, Paola Mosconi, Renata Cerutti, Fabio Pace, Angelo Compare, Giovanni Apolone
Assessing responsiveness of generic and specific health related quality of life measures in heart failure
Dean T Eurich, Jeffrey A Johnson, Kimberly J Reid, John A Spertus
A pilot Internet "Value of Health" Panel: recruitment, participation and compliance
Ken Stein, Matthew Dyer, Tania Crabb, Ruairidh Milne, Alison Round, Julie Ratcliffe, John Brazier
Measuring health-related quality of life in adolescents and young adults: Swedish normative data for the SF-36 and the HADS, and the influence of age, gender, and method of administration
Anna Jörngården, Lena Wettergen, Louise von Essen
Evaluation of the Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors (QLACS) scale for long-term cancer survivors in a sample of breast cancer survivors
Nancy E Avis, Edward Ip, Kristie Long Foley
Are Asians comfortable with discussing death in health valuation studies? A study in multi-ethnic Singapore
Hwee-Lin Wee, Shu-Chuen Li, Feng Xie, Xu-Hao Zhang, Nan Luo, Yin-Bun Cheung, David Machin, Kok-Yong Fong, Julian Thumboo
Combining scores from different patient reported outcome measures in meta-analyses: when is it justified?
Milo A Puhan, Irene Soesilo, Gordon H Guyatt, Holger J Schünemann
Impact, distress and HRQoL among Malaysian men and women with a mobility impairment
RoseAnne Misajon, Lenore Manderson, Julie F Pallant, Zaliha Omar, Elizabeth Bennett, Rameezan Begam Abdul Rahim
Influence of Interferon beta treatment on quality of life in multiple sclerosis patients
Isabella Laura Simone, Antonia Ceccarelli, Carla Tortorella, Alessandra Bellacosa, Fabio Pellegrini, Immacolata Plasmati, Maria Fara De Caro, Mariangela Lopez, Francesco Girolamo, Paolo Livrea
Quality of life in age-related macular degeneration: a review of the literature
Jan Mitchell, Clare Bradley