Ausgabe 1/2016
Inhalt (170 Artikel)
Erratum to: psychometric evaluation of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF) in Chinese adolescents – a methodological study
Cheng Guo, Göran Tomson, Jizhi Guo, Xiangyun Li, Christina Keller, Fredrik Söderqvist
Stakeholders’ perceptions of rehabilitation services for individuals living with disability: a survey study
Andrea J. Darzi, Alana Officer, Ola Abualghaib, Elie A. Akl
Validation of a German version of the International Hip Outcome Tool 12 (iHOT12) according to the COSMIN checklist
Florian Baumann, Daniel Popp, Karolina Müller, Michael Müller, Paul Schmitz, Michael Nerlich, Stefan Fickert
“Back to the future”: Influence of beliefs regarding the future on TTO answers
F. E. van Nooten, N.J.A. van Exel, D. Eriksson, W.B.F. Brouwer
Self-rated health and health-related quality of life among Chinese residents, China, 2010
Wen-lan Dong, Yi-chong Li, Zhuo-qun Wang, Ying-ying Jiang, Fan Mao, Li Qi, Jian-qun Dong, Li-min Wang
A cross-sectional study on quality of life among the elderly in non-governmental organizations’ elderly homes in Kuala Lumpur
Obinna Francis Onunkwor, Sami Abdo Radman Al-Dubai, Philip Parikial George, John Arokiasamy, Hemetram Yadav, Ankur Barua, Hassana Ojonuba Shuaibu
Socioeconomic health disparities revisited: coping flexibility enhances health-related quality of life for individuals low in socioeconomic status
Saloni Atal, Cecilia Cheng
Psychometric characteristics of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General when applied to Brazilian cancer patients: a cross-cultural adaptation and validation
Juliana Alvares Duarte Bonini Campos, Maria Cláudia Bernardes Spexoto, Sergio Vicente Serrano, João Maroco
Incremental validity of sense of coherence, neuroticism, extraversion, and general self-efficacy: longitudinal prediction of substance use frequency and mental health
Dennis Grevenstein, Matthias Bluemke, Henrik Kroeninger-Jungaberle
Life satisfaction after traumatic brain injury: comparison of ratings with the Life Satisfaction Questionnaire (LiSat-11) and the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS)
Lars Jacobsson, Jan Lexell
Association between general self-efficacy, social support, cancer-related stress and physical health-related quality of life: a path model study in patients with neuroendocrine tumors
Trude Haugland, Astrid Klopstad Wahl, Dag Hofoss, Holli A. DeVon
Rasch analysis of the Meaning in Life Questionnaire among adults from South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand
Lusilda Schutte, Marié P. Wissing, Suria M. Ellis, Paul E. Jose, Dianne A. Vella-Brodrick
Estimating the impact of changes in HbA1c, body weight and insulin injection regimen on health related quality-of-life: a time trade off study
Martin Ridderstråle, Lyndon Marc Evans, Henrik Holm Jensen, Mette Bøgelund, Marie Markert Jensen, Åsa Ericsson, Johan Jendle
Adolescents’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) changes over time: a three year longitudinal study
Tanya Meade, Elizabeth Dowswell
Psychometric properties of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) in patients diagnosed with Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)
Hiral Anil Shah, Melina Dritsaki, Joshua Pink, Stavros Petrou
Resilience measurement in later life: a systematic review and psychometric analysis
T. D. Cosco, A. Kaushal, M. Richards, D. Kuh, M. Stafford
Rasch analysis holds no brief for the use of the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) in Chinese neurodermatitis patients
Yale Liu, Tian Li, Jingang An, Weihui Zeng, Shengxiang Xiao
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD) is associated with impairment of Health Related Quality of Life (HRQOL)
Pegah Golabi, Munkhzul Otgonsuren, Rebecca Cable, Sean Felix, Aaron Koenig, Mehmet Sayiner, Zobair M. Younossi
Psychometric properties of the positive mental health instrument among people with mental disorders: a cross-sectional study
Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Edimansyah Abdin, Siow Ann Chong, Rajeswari Sambasivam, Anitha Jeyagurunathan, Esmond Seow, Louisa Picco, Shirlene Pang, Susan Lim, Mythily Subramaniam
Psychometric study of the European Portuguese version of the PedsQL 3.0 Cancer Module
Susana Santos, Carla Crespo, M. Cristina Canavarro, Ananda Fernandes, Luís Batalha, Diana de Campos, Armando Pinto
Mapping the neck disability index to SF-6D in patients with chronic neck pain
Yongjun Zheng, Kun Tang, Le Ye, Zisheng Ai, Bin Wu
Irritable bowel syndrome-specific health-related quality of life instrument: development and psychometric evaluation
Eun-Hyun Lee, Oran Kwon, Ki Baik Hahm, WonHee Kim, Jin Il Kim, Dae Young Cheung, Yoon Jae Kim, Jung Ho Kim, Jong-Jae Park, Moon Kyung Joo
The Minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire: comparison of different factor structures
Amaia Bilbao, Antonio Escobar, Lidia García-Perez, Gemma Navarro, Raul Quirós
Mode equivalence and acceptability of tablet computer-, interactive voice response system-, and paper-based administration of the U.S. National Cancer Institute’s Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE)
Antonia V. Bennett, Amylou C. Dueck, Sandra A. Mitchell, Tito R. Mendoza, Bryce B. Reeve, Thomas M. Atkinson, Kathleen M. Castro, Andrea Denicoff, Lauren J. Rogak, Jay K. Harness, James D. Bearden, Donna Bryant, Robert D. Siegel, Deborah Schrag, Ethan Basch
Interpreting change from patient reported outcome (PRO) endpoints: patient global ratings of concept versus patient global ratings of change, a case study among osteoporosis patients
Annabel Nixon, Helen Doll, Cicely Kerr, Russel Burge, April N. Naegeli
Most prevalent unmet supportive care needs and quality of life of breast cancer patients in a tertiary hospital in Malaysia
Zobaida Edib, Verasingam Kumarasamy, Norlia binti Abdullah, A. M. Rizal, Sami Abdo Radman Al-Dubai
Cross-cultural comparison of fertility specific quality of life in German, Hungarian and Jordanian couples attending a fertility center
Réka E. Sexty, Jehan Hamadneh, Sabine Rösner, Thomas Strowitzki, Beate Ditzen, Bettina Toth, Tewes Wischmann
Holistic Health Status Questionnaire: developing a measure from a Hong Kong Chinese population
Choi Wan Chan, Frances Kam Yuet Wong, Siu Ming Yeung, Fok Sum
Acknowledgement of manuscript reviewers 2015
Holger Schunemann, Feng Xie
Are physical activity, sedentary behaviors and sleep duration associated with body mass index-for-age and health-related quality of life among high school boys and girls?
Sara Jalali-Farahani, Parisa Amiri, Yit Siew Chin
Quality of life utility values for hereditary haemochromatosis in Australia
Barbara de Graaff, Amanda Neil, Kristy Sanderson, Kwang Chien Yee, Andrew J. Palmer
Spanish version of SPADI (shoulder pain and disability index) in musculoskeletal shoulder pain: a new 10-items version after confirmatory factor analysis
Alejandro Luque-Suarez, Antonio Rondon-Ramos, Manuel Fernandez-Sanchez, Kathryn E. Roach, Jose Miguel Morales-Asencio
Patient Uncertainty Questionnaire-Rheumatology (PUQ-R): development and validation of a new patient-reported outcome instrument for systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA) in a mixed methods study
Sophie Cleanthous, David Alan Isenberg, Stanton Peter Newman, Stefan John Cano
Validity and reliability of short forms of parental-caregiver perception and family impact scale in a Telugu speaking population of India
Santhosh Kumar, Jeroen Kroon, Ratilal Lalloo, Newell W. Johnson
Estimation of minimal clinically important change of the Japanese version of EQ-5D in patients with chronic noncancer pain: a retrospective research using real-world data
Kazutake Yoshizawa, Hisanori Kobayashi, Motoko Fujie, Yoshimasa Ogawa, Tsutomu Yajima, Koji Kawai
An analysis of the complementarity of ICECAP-A and EQ-5D-3 L in an adult population of patients with knee pain
T. Keeley, J. Coast, E. Nicholls, N. E. Foster, S. Jowett, H. Al-Janabi
Food insecurity, mental health and quality of life among people living with HIV commencing antiretroviral treatment in Ethiopia: a cross-sectional study
Markos Tesfaye, Pernille Kaestel, Mette Frahm Olsen, Tsinuel Girma, Daniel Yilma, Alemseged Abdissa, Christian Ritz, Martin Prince, Henrik Friis, Charlotte Hanlon
Psychometric properties of the Albanian version of chewing-function questionnaire CFQ-ALB
Venera Bimbashi, Gloria Staka, Asja Čelebić, Flurije Hoxha, Kujtim Shala, Nikola Petričević
Many correlates of poor quality of life among substance users entering treatment are not addiction-specific
Ashley E. Muller, Svetlana Skurtveit, Thomas Clausen
Frail older adults with minor fractures show lower health-related quality of life (SF-12) scores up to six months following emergency department discharge
Véronique Provencher, Marie-Josée Sirois, Marcel Émond, Jeffrey J. Perry, Raoul Daoust, Jacques S. Lee, Lauren E. Griffith, Brice Lionel Batomen Kuimi, Litz Rony Despeignes, Laura Wilding, Vanessa Fillion, Nadine Allain-Boulé, Johan Lebon
Intervals between response choices on a single-item measure of quality of life
Yves Henchoz, Lionel Meylan, Brigitte Santos-Eggimann
Health-related quality of life and its association with medication adherence in active pulmonary tuberculosis– a systematic review of global literature with focus on South Africa
Tanja Kastien-Hilka, Ahmed Abulfathi, Bernd Rosenkranz, Bryan Bennett, Matthias Schwenkglenks, Edina Sinanovic
Item response theory analysis of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health-Related Quality of Life (CDC HRQOL) items in adults with arthritis
Thelma J. Mielenz, Leigh F. Callahan, Michael C. Edwards
Psychometric evaluation of the Sinhalese version of MacNew Heart Disease Health Related Quality of Life Questionnaire in patients with stable angina
K. L. M. D. Seneviwickrama, D. B. D. L. Samaranayake, P. Fonseka, G. N. L. Galappaththy, S. Höfer, N. B. Oldridge
Health-related quality of life in children with chronic immune thrombocytopenia in China
Heng Zhang, Li Wang, Meijie Quan, Jie Huang, Peng Wu, Qin Lu, Yongjun Fang
Mediation analysis of relationships between chronic inflammation and quality of life in older adults
Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski, Katelyn Y. Graves, J. E. Sumerau
Validation of PRISM (Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure) as a novel visual assessment tool for the burden of suffering in tinnitus patients
Nicole Peter, Tobias Kleinjung, Lukas Horat, Sabine Schmidt-Weitmann, Martin Meyer, Stefan Büchi, Steffi Weidt
Assessing quality of life in a clinical study on heart rehabilitation patients: how well do value sets based on given or experienced health states reflect patients’ valuations?
Reiner Leidl, Bernd Schweikert, Harry Hahmann, Juergen M. Steinacker, Peter Reitmeir
Health-related quality of life in thrombocytopenic patients with chronic hepatitis C with or without cirrhosis in the ENABLE-1 and ENABLE-2 studies
Kelly M. Grotzinger, Zobair M. Younossi, Edoardo G. Giannini, Pei-Jer Chen, Regina Rendas-Baum, Dickens Theodore
Associations between the toe brachial index and health-related quality of life in older people
Jennifer Sonter, Vivienne Chuter
Health-related quality of life of postmenopausal Chinese women with hormone receptor-positive early breast cancer during treatment with adjuvant aromatase inhibitors: a prospective, multicenter, non-interventional study
Ayong Cao, Jin Zhang, Xiaoan Liu, Weizhu Wu, Yinhua Liu, Zhimin Fan, Anqin Zhang, Tianning Zhou, Peifen Fu, Shu Wang, Quchang Ouyang, Jinhai Tang, Hongchuan Jiang, Xiaohua Zhang, Da Pang, Jianjun He, Linxiang Shi, Xianming Wang, Yuan Sheng, Dahua Mao, Zhimin Shao
Patient-reported pain and other quality of life domains as prognostic factors for survival in a phase III clinical trial of patients with advanced breast cancer
Emily Nash Smyth, Wei Shen, Lee Bowman, Patrick Peterson, William John, Allen Melemed, Astra M. Liepa
Validation of a Spanish translation of the Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-6) with a Chilean sample of adults and high schoolers
Álvaro I. Langer, Valentina G. Ulloa, José M. Aguilar-Parra, Claudio Araya-Véliz, Gonzalo Brito
Relationship between pain relief, reduction in pain-associated sleep interference, and overall impression of improvement in patients with postherpetic neuralgia treated with extended-release gabapentin
Neel Mehta, Iwona Bucior, Shay Bujanover, Rajiv Shah, Amitabh Gulati
The impact of chronic disease on orphans’ quality of life living in extended social care services: a cross sectional analysis
Wadi B. Alonazi
Long-term follow-up of mental health, health-related quality of life and associations with motor skills in young adults born preterm with very low birth weight
Ingrid Marie Husby, Kaia Mølbach-Thellefsen Stray, Alexander Olsen, Stian Lydersen, Marit Sæbø Indredavik, Ann-Mari Brubakk, Jon Skranes, Kari Anne I. Evensen
Applying Rasch analysis to evaluate measurement equivalence of different administration formats of the Activity Limitation scale of the Cambridge Pulmonary Hypertension Outcome Review (CAMPHOR)
J. Twiss, S. P. McKenna, J. Graham, K. Swetz, J. Sloan, M. Gomberg-Maitland
Psychometric properties of the Norwegian version of the Kidscreen-27 questionnaire
John Roger Andersen, Gerd Karin Natvig, Kristin Haraldstad, Turid Skrede, Eivind Aadland, Geir Kåre Resaland
Erratum to: Frail older adults with minor fractures show lower health-related quality of life (SF-12) scores up to six months following emergency department discharge
Véronique Provencher, Marie-Josée Sirois, Marcel Émond, Jeffrey J. Perry, Raoul Daoust, Jacques S. Lee, Lauren E. Griffith, Brice Lionel Batomen Kuimi, Litz Rony Despeignes, Laura Wilding, Vanessa Fillion, Nadine Allain-Boulé, Johan Lebon
Comparing the mapping between EQ-5D-5L, EQ-5D-3L and the EORTC-QLQ-C30 in non-small cell lung cancer patients
Iftekhar Khan, Steve Morris, Nora Pashayan, Bashir Matata, Zahid Bashir, Joe Maguirre
Validity, reliability and interpretability of the Thai version of the urticaria control test (UCT)
Kanokvalai Kulthanan, Leena Chularojanamontri, Papapit Tuchinda, Chuda Rujitharanawong, Marcus Maurer, Karsten Weller
Health-related quality of life in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients with implantable defibrillators
Peter Magnusson, Stellan Mörner, Fredrik Gadler, Jan Karlsson
Impact of pulmonary exacerbations and lung function on generic health-related quality of life in patients with cystic fibrosis
Caitlyn T. Solem, Montserrat Vera-Llonch, Sizhu Liu, Marc Botteman, Brenda Castiglione
Quality of life in Arab women with breast cancer: a review of the literature
Bouchra Haddou Rahou, Karima El Rhazi, Fatima Ouasmani, Chakib Nejjari, Rachid Bekkali, Ali Montazeri, Abdelhalem Mesfioui
Health-related quality of life as measured with the Short-Form 36 (SF-36) questionnaire in patients with recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis
Yu-Xia Zhu, Ting Li, Shang-Rong Fan, Xiao-Ping Liu, Yi-Heng Liang, Ping Liu
Impact of self-reported physical activity and health promotion behaviors on lung cancer survivorship
Jeff A. Sloan, Andrea L. Cheville, Heshan Liu, Paul J. Novotny, Jason A. Wampfler, Yolanda I. Garces, Matthew M. Clark, Ping Yang
Colombian Rasch validation of KIDSCREEN-27 quality of life questionnaire
Claudia-Marcela Vélez, Luz-Helena Lugo-Agudelo, Gilma-Norela Hernández-Herrera, Héctor-Iván García-García
The impact of health literacy and life style risk factors on health-related quality of life of Australian patients
Upali W. Jayasinghe, Mark Fort Harris, Sharon M. Parker, John Litt, Mieke van Driel, Danielle Mazza, Chris Del Mar, Jane Lloyd, Jane Smith, Nicholas Zwar, Richard Taylor
Relationship of the adherence to the Mediterranean diet with health-related quality of life and treatment satisfaction in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus: a post-hoc analysis of a cross-sectional study
Nuria Alcubierre, Montserrat Martinez-Alonso, Joan Valls, Esther Rubinat, Alicia Traveset, Marta Hernández, Maria Dolores Martínez-González, Minerva Granado-Casas, Carmen Jurjo, Jesus Vioque, Eva Maria Navarrete-Muñoz, Didac Mauricio
Semantics bias in cross-national comparative analyses: is it good or bad to have “fair” health?
Christina W. Schnohr, Inese Gobina, Teresa Santos, Joanna Mazur, Mujgan Alikasifuglu, Raili Välimaa, Maria Corell, Curt Hagquist, Paola Dalmasso, Yeva Movseyan, Franco Cavallo, Saskia van Dorsselaer, Torbjørn Torsheim
Association between physical activity and health-related quality of life in children: a cross-sectional study
Sharifah Wajihah Wafa bte Syed Saadun Tarek Wafa, Mohd Razif bin Shahril, Aryati bte Ahmad, Laila Ruwaida bte Zainuddin, Karimah Fakhriah bte Ismail, Myat Moe Thwe Aung, Noor Aini bte Mohd Yusoff
Development of an item bank for the EORTC Role Functioning Computer Adaptive Test (EORTC RF-CAT)
Eva-Maria Gamper, Morten Aa Petersen, Neil Aaronson, Anna Costantini, Johannes M. Giesinger, Bernhard Holzner, Georg Kemmler, Anne Oberguggenberger, Susanne Singer, Teresa Young, Mogens Groenvold
Effects of social support, hope and resilience on quality of life among Chinese bladder cancer patients: a cross-sectional study
Meng-Yao Li, Yi-Long Yang, Li Liu, Lie Wang
Child maltreatment and quality of life: a study of adolescents in residential care
Hanne Klæboe Greger, Arne Kristian Myhre, Stian Lydersen, Thomas Jozefiak
LC-PROM: Validation of a patient reported outcomes measure for liver cirrhosis patients
Ying Zhang, Yuanyuan Yang, Jing Lv, Yanbo Zhang
Development and validation of quality of life scale of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients: the QOL-NPC (version 2)
Yong Su, Chuan-wei Mo, Wan-qin Cheng, Lei Wang, Qian Xu, Zu-chun Wu, Zhe-li Wu, Li-zhi Liu, Xin-lin Chen
Individuals with knee impairments identify items in need of clarification in the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) pain interference and physical function item banks – a qualitative study
Andrew D. Lynch, Nathan E. Dodds, Lan Yu, Paul A. Pilkonis, James J. Irrgang
Clinimetric properties of the ASAS health index in a cohort of Italian patients with axial spondyloarthritis
Marco Di Carlo, Valentina Lato, Marina Carotti, Fausto Salaffi
What factors influence parents’ perception of the quality of life of children and adolescents with neurocardiogenic syncope?
Teresa Grimaldi Capitello, Caterina Fiorilli, Silvia Placidi, Roberta Vallone, Fabrizio Drago, Simonetta Gentile
Health-related quality of life, anxiety and depression in the diagnostic phase of suspected cancer, and the influence of diagnosis
Ellen Moseholm, Susan Rydahl-Hansen, Dorthe Overgaard, Hanne S. Wengel, Rikke Frederiksen, Malene Brandt, Bjarne Ø. Lindhardt
Factors influencing changes in health related quality of life of caregivers of persons with multiple chronic conditions
Wendy Duggleby, Allison Williams, Sunita Ghosh, Heather Moquin, Jenny Ploeg, Maureen Markle-Reid, Shelley Peacock
Validation of the American version of the CareGiver Oncology Quality of Life (CarGOQoL) questionnaire
Sarah C. Kaveney, Karine Baumstarck, Patricia Minaya-Flores, Tarrah Shannon, Philip Symes, Anderson Loundou, Pascal Auquier
Structural equation modeling of the quality of life for patients with marfan syndrome
Ju Ryoung Moon, Yong Ae Cho, June Huh, I-Seok Kang, Duk-Kyung Kim
Standardizing disease-specific quality of life measures across multiple chronic conditions: development and initial evaluation of the QOL Disease Impact Scale (QDIS®)
John E. Ware Jr., Barbara Gandek, Rick Guyer, Nina Deng
Health status and health service utilization in remote and mountainous areas in Vietnam
Bach Xuan Tran, Long Hoang Nguyen, Vuong Minh Nong, Cuong Tat Nguyen
Quality of life in patients with vitiligo: a cross-sectional study based on Vitiligo Quality of Life index (VitiQoL)
Kosar Hedayat, Mojgan Karbakhsh, Maryam Ghiasi, Azadeh Goodarzi, Yousef Fakour, Zahra Akbari, Afsaneh Ghayoumi, Narges Ghandi
Thresholds for clinical importance for four key domains of the EORTC QLQ-C30: physical functioning, emotional functioning, fatigue and pain
Johannes M. Giesinger, Wilma Kuijpers, Teresa Young, Krzysztof A. Tomaszewski, Elizabeth Friend, August Zabernigg, Bernhard Holzner, Neil K. Aaronson
Longitudinal measurement invariance in prospective oral health-related quality of life assessment
Daniel R. Reissmann, Mike T. John, Leah Feuerstahler, Kazuyoshi Baba, Gyula Szabó, Asja Čelebić, Niels Waller
Comparing the performance of the EQ-5D-3L and the EQ-5D-5L in young Portuguese adults
Lara N. Ferreira, Pedro L. Ferreira, Filipa P. Ribeiro, Luis N. Pereira
Reliability, validity and clinical correlates of the Quality of Life in Alzheimer’s disease (QoL-AD) scale in medical inpatients
Gustav Torisson, Lars Stavenow, Lennart Minthon, Elisabet Londos
Dynamic weight-bearing assessment of pain in knee osteoarthritis: construct validity, responsiveness, and interpretability in a research setting
Louise Klokker, Robin Christensen, Eva E. Wæhrens, Elisabeth Bandak, Cecilie Bartholdy, Henning Bliddal, Marius Henriksen
Content validity of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Sleep Disturbance and Sleep Related Impairment item banks in adolescents
Jojanneke A. M. C. van Kooten, Caroline B. Terwee, Gertjan J. L. Kaspers, Raphaёle R. L. van Litsenburg
Czech version of OPQOL-35 questionnaire: the evaluation of the psychometric properties
Jiri Mares, Hynek Cigler, Eva Vachkova
Association of anemia and mineral and bone disorder with health-related quality of life in Asian pre-dialysis patients
Hwee-Lin Wee, Benjamin Jun Jie Seng, Jia Jia Lee, Kok Joon Chong, Pallavi Tyagi, Anantharaman Vathsala, Priscilla How
Health related quality of life of children with calcaneal apophysitis: child & parent perceptions
Alicia M. James, Cylie M. Williams, Terry P. Haines
Assessment of psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the oral anticoagulation knowledge test
Marcus Fernando da Silva Praxedes, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de Abreu, Saul Martins Paiva, Juliana Vaz de Melo Mambrini, Milena Soriano Marcolino, Maria Auxiliadora Parreiras Martins
The COPD-SIB: a newly developed disease-specific item bank to measure health-related quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Muirne C. S. Paap, Lonneke I. M. Lenferink, Nadine Herzog, Karel A. Kroeze, Job van der Palen
Influence of culture, residential segregation and socioeconomic development on rural elderly health-related quality of life in Guangxi, China
Tai Zhang, Wuxiang Shi, Zhaoquan Huang, Dong Gao, Zhenyou Guo, Jianying Liu, Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong
Quality of life in Chinese family caregivers for elderly people with chronic diseases
Hui Xie, Cheng Cheng, Yisheng Tao, Jie Zhang, Delprino Robert, Jihui Jia, Yonggang Su
Relationships between psychosocial outcomes in adolescents who are obese and their parents during a multi-disciplinary family-based healthy lifestyle intervention: One-year follow-up of a waitlist controlled trial (Curtin University’s Activity, Food and Attitudes Program)
Ashley A. Fenner, Erin K. Howie, Melissa C. Davis, Leon M. Straker
A comparison of health state utility values associated with oral potentially malignant disorders and oral cancer in Sri Lanka assessed using the EQ-5D-3 L and the EORTC-8D
Sanjeewa Kularatna, Jennifer A. Whitty, Newell W. Johnson, Ruwan Jayasinghe, Paul A. Scuffham
Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, values, preferences, and feasibility in relation to the use of injection safety devices in healthcare settings: a systematic review
Rami Tarabay, Rola El Rassi, Abeer Dakik, Alain Harb, Rami A. Ballout, Batoul Diab, Selma Khamassi, Elie A. Akl
Psychometric properties of the Dutch WHOQOL-OLD
Robbert J. J. Gobbens, Marcel A. L. M. van Assen
Development of the chronic obstructive pulmonary disease morning symptom diary (COPD-MSD)
Gary Globe, Brooke Currie, Nancy Kline Leidy, Paul Jones, David Mannino, Fernando Martinez, Paul Klekotka, Sean O’Quinn, Niklas Karlsson, Ingela Wiklund
A comparison of health utility scores calculated using United Kingdom and Canadian preference weights in persons with alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers
Mingying Fang, Mark Oremus, Jean-Eric Tarride, Parminder Raina, Gerry Mugford, Marshall Godwin, Allen Huang, Yves Bacher, Juan-Manual Villalpando, Sudeep S. Gill, Krista L. Lanctôt, Nathan Herrmann, David Cowan, Robert Petrella, David B. Hogan, Philip E. Lee
German version, inter- and intrarater reliability and internal consistency of the “Agitated Behavior Scale” (ABS-G) in patients with moderate to severe traumatic brain injury
Stephanie Hellweg, Corina Schuster-Amft
Associations between psychological factors and health-related quality of life and global quality of life in patients with ALS: a systematic review
Annerieke C. van Groenestijn, Esther T. Kruitwagen-van Reenen, Johanna M. A. Visser-Meily, Leonard H. van den Berg, Carin D. Schröder
Does relationship satisfaction and financial aid from offspring influence the quality of life of older parents?: a longitudinal study based on findings from the Korean longitudinal study of aging, 2006–2012
Yeong Jun Ju, Kyu-Tae Han, Tae-Hoon Lee, Woorim Kim, Juyeong Kim, Eun-Cheol Park
Quality of life among elderly patients undergoing transcatheter or surgical aortic valve replacement– a model-based longitudinal data analysis
Klaus Kaier, Anja Gutmann, Hardy Baumbach, Constantin von zur Mühlen, Philip Hehn, Werner Vach, Friedhelm Beyersdorf, Manfred Zehender, Christoph Bode, Jochen Reinöhl
Portuguese validation of the Cambridge pulmonary hypertension outcome review (CAMPHOR) questionnaire
Abílio Reis, James Twiss, Margarida Vicente, Fabienne Gonçalves, Luísa Carvalho, José Meireles, Alzira Melo, Stephen P. McKenna, Luís Almeida
Quality of life, depression and dietary intake in Obstructive Sleep Apnea patients
Marta Stelmach-Mardas, Marcin Mardas, Khalid Iqbal, Robert J. Tower, Heiner Boeing, Tomasz Piorunek
Quality of life and related factors of nursing home residents in Singapore
Pei Wang, Philip Yap, Gerald Koh, Jia An Chong, Lucy Jennifer Davies, Mayank Dalakoti, Ngan Phoon Fong, Wei Wei Tiong, Nan Luo
Independent predictors of physical health in community-dwelling patients with coronary heart disease in Singapore
Wenru Wang, Ying Jiang, Chi-Hang Lee
Health-related quality of life in Hodgkin lymphoma: a systematic review
Nadine Linendoll, Tully Saunders, Rebecca Burns, Jonathan D. Nyce, Kristen B. Wendell, Andrew M. Evens, Susan K. Parsons
Health-related quality of life and associated factors in people with HIV: an Irish cohort study
Sherly George, Colm Bergin, Susan Clarke, Grainne Courtney, Mary B. Codd
Infant feeding and health-related quality of life in healthy Chinese infants: results from a prospective, observational cohort study
Nicholas P. Hays, Meng Mao, Lan Zhang, John Ge, Robert Northington, Manjiang Yao, Sheri Volger
How do social activities mitigate informal caregivers’ psychological distress? Evidence from a nine-year panel survey in Japan
Takashi Oshio, Mari Kan
Analysis on the situation of subjective well-being and its influencing factors in patients with ankylosing spondylitis
Mengmeng Wang, Sheng Wang, Xu Zhang, Qing Xia, Guoqi Cai, Xiao Yang, Xiaona Li, Li Wang, Lihong Xin, Shengqian Xu, Jianhua Xu, Zongwen Shuai, Faming Pan
Metformin improved health-related quality of life in ethnic Chinese women with polycystic ovary syndrome
Huang-Tz Ou, Pei-Chi Chen, Meng-Hsing Wu, Chung-Ying Lin
A longitudinal study on quality of life after injury in children
Amy Schneeberg, Takuro Ishikawa, Sami Kruse, Erica Zallen, Craig Mitton, Julie A. Bettinger, Mariana Brussoni
Association of knee pain and different definitions of knee osteoarthritis with health-related quality of life: a population-based cohort study in southern Sweden
Aliasghar A. Kiadaliri, Carl Johan Lamm, Maria Gerhardsson de Verdier, Gunnar Engström, Aleksandra Turkiewicz, L. Stefan Lohmander, Martin Englund
Well-being and associated factors among adults in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt)
Nouh Harsha, Luay Ziq, Rula Ghandour, Rita Giacaman
Psychometric evaluation and wording effects on the Chinese version of the parent-proxy Kid-KINDL
Chih-Ting Lee, Chung-Ying Lin, Meng-Che Tsai, Carol Strong, Yi-Ching Lin
Confirmatory factor analysis of Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation (CORE-OM) used as a measure of emotional distress in people with tinnitus
L. Handscomb, D. A. Hall, D. J. Hoare, G. W. Shorter
Poor sleep and reduced quality of life were associated with symptom distress in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis
Raoping Wang, Chunyuan Tang, Xiaofan Chen, Chunping Zhu, Wanna Feng, Pengsheng Li, Ciyong Lu
Where’s WALY? : A proof of concept study of the ‘wellbeing adjusted life year’ using secondary analysis of cross-sectional survey data
Rebecca Johnson, David Jenkinson, Chris Stinton, Sian Taylor-Phillips, Jason Madan, Sarah Stewart-Brown, Aileen Clarke
Systematic review reveals lack of quality in reporting health-related quality of life in patients with gastroenteropancreatic neuroendocrine tumours
Caroline Martini, Eva-Maria Gamper, Lisa Wintner, Bernhard Nilica, Barbara Sperner-Unterweger, Bernhard Holzner, Irene Virgolini
Measurement properties of the brief resilient coping scale in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus using rasch analysis
José-Antonio López-Pina, Ana-Belén Meseguer-Henarejos, Juan-José Gascón-Cánovas, Dérlis-Julián Navarro-Villalba, Vaughn G. Sinclair, Kenneth A. Wallston
The impact of type 2 diabetes on health related quality of life in Bangladesh: results from a matched study comparing treated cases with non-diabetic controls
Novie Safita, Sheikh Mohammed Shariful Islam, Clara K. Chow, Louis Niessen, Andreas Lechner, Rolf Holle, Michael Laxy
The Four-Dimensional Symptom Questionnaire (4DSQ) in the general population: scale structure, reliability, measurement invariance and normative data: a cross-sectional survey
Berend Terluin, Niels Smits, Evelien P. M. Brouwers, Henrica C. W. de Vet
Incorporating development of a patient-reported outcome instrument in a clinical drug development program: examples from a heart failure program
Ingela Wiklund, Milena Anatchkova, Hafiz Oko-Osi, Robyn von Maltzahn, Dina Chau, Fady I. Malik, Donald L. Patrick, John Spertus, John R. Teerlink
Vision-related quality of life in patients receiving intravitreal ranibizumab injections in routine clinical practice: baseline data from the German OCEAN study
Thomas Bertelmann, Nicolas Feltgen, Martin Scheffler, Ulrich Hufenbach, Annette Wiedon, Helmut Wilhelm, Focke Ziemssen
Health-related quality of life measured using the EQ-5D–5L: South Australian population norms
Nikki McCaffrey, Billingsley Kaambwa, David C. Currow, Julie Ratcliffe
Assessing outcomes for cost-utility analysis in mental health interventions: mapping mental health specific outcome measure GHQ-12 onto EQ-5D-3L
Marie Lindkvist, Inna Feldman
Erratum to: Metformin improved health-related quality of life in ethnic Chinese women with polycystic ovary syndrome
Huang-Tz Ou, Pei-Chi Chen, Meng-Hsing Wu, Chung-Ying Lin
The factor structure of the 12-item general health questionnaire (GHQ-12) in young Chinese civil servants
Ying Liang, Lei Wang, Xican Yin
Effect of psycho-educational interventions on quality of life in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials
Chi-Wen Kao, Miao-Yi Chen, Ting-Yu Chen, Pai-Hui Lin
Patient-reported outcomes in transition from high-dose U-100 insulin to human regular U-500 insulin in severely insulin-resistant patients with type 2 diabetes: analysis of a randomized clinical trial
Samaneh Kabul, Robert C. Hood, Ran Duan, Amy M. DeLozier, Julie Settles
Minimally important difference of the Child Oral Health Impact Profile for children with orofacial anomalies
Ryan Richard Ruff, Lacey Sischo, Hillary L. Broder
Assessing the external validity of algorithms to estimate EQ-5D-3L from the WOMAC
Aliasghar A. Kiadaliri, Martin Englund
Reliability and validity of the Chinese mandarin version of PedsQL™ 3.0 transplant module
Ying Chang, Yanhui Luo, Yuchen Zhou, Ruixin Wang, Na Song, Guanghua Zhu, Bin Wang, Maoquan Qin, Jun Yang, Yuan Sun, Chunfu Li, Xuan Zhou
Measuring the impact of migraine for evaluating outcomes of preventive treatments for migraine headaches
Sally Mannix, Anne Skalicky, Dawn C. Buse, Pooja Desai, Sandhya Sapra, Brian Ortmeier, Katherine Widnell, Asha Hareendran
Orthostatic intolerance symptoms are associated with depression and diminished quality of life in patients with postural tachycardia syndrome
Jangsup Moon, Do-Yong Kim, Jung-Ick Byun, Jun-Sang Sunwoo, Jung-Ah Lim, Tae-Joon Kim, Jung-Won Shin, Woo-Jin Lee, Han Sang Lee, Jin-Sun Jun, Kyung-Il Park, Keun-Hwa Jung, Soon-Tae Lee, Ki-Young Jung, Kon Chu, Sang Kun Lee
The burden of disease in patients eligible for mentalization-based treatment (MBT): quality of life and costs
Elisabeth M. P. Laurenssen, Hester V. Eeren, Martijn J. Kikkert, Jaap Peen, Dieuwertje Westra, Jack J. M. Dekker, Jan J. V. Busschbach
Interrelationships among common symptoms in the elderly and their effects on health-related quality of life: a cross-sectional study in rural Korea
Sujeong Mun, Kihyun Park, Younghwa Baek, Siwoo Lee, Jong-hyang Yoo
Patient self-report section of the ASES questionnaire: a Spanish validation study using classical test theory and the Rasch model
Kalliopi Vrotsou, Ricardo Cuéllar, Félix Silió, Miguel Ángel Rodriguez, Daniel Garay, Gorka Busto, Ziortza Trancho, Antonio Escobar
Fatigue in intensive care survivors one year after discharge
Savino Spadaro, Maurizia Capuzzo, Giorgia Valpiani, Sara Bertacchini, Riccardo Ragazzi, Francesca Dalla Corte, Simona Terranova, Elisabetta Marangoni, Carlo Alberto Volta
Correlation between health-related quality of life in the physical domain and heart rate variability in asymptomatic adults
Wan-Chun Lu, Nian-Sheng Tzeng, Yu-Chen Kao, Chin-Bin Yeh, Terry B. J. Kuo, Chuan-Chia Chang, Hsin-An Chang
Explaining parent-child (dis)agreement in generic and short stature-specific health-related quality of life reports: do family and social relationships matter?
Julia Quitmann, Anja Rohenkohl, Rachel Sommer, Monika Bullinger, Neuza Silva
Sleep quality in Chinese patients with rheumatoid arthritis: contributing factors and effects on health-related quality of life
Genkai Guo, Ting Fu, Rulan Yin, Lijuan Zhang, Qiuxiang Zhang, Yunfei Xia, Liren Li, Zhifeng Gu
Stigmas, symptom severity and perceived social support predict quality of life for PLHIV in urban Indian context
Helena Garrido-Hernansaiz, Elsa Heylen, Shalini Bharat, Jayashree Ramakrishna, Maria L. Ekstrand
Quality of life and related factors among chronic hepatitis B-infected patients: a multi-center study, Turkey
Zehra Karacaer, Banu Cakir, Hakan Erdem, Kenan Ugurlu, Gul Durmus, Nevin Koc Ince, Cinar Ozturk, Rodrigo Hasbun, Ayse Batirel, Esmeray Mutlu Yilmaz, Ilkay Bozkurt, Mustafa Sunbul, Aynur Aynioglu, Aynur Atilla, Ayse Erbay, Ayse Inci, Cigdem Kader, Elif Tukenmez Tigen, Gokhan Karaahmetoglu, Seher Ayten Coskuner, Ebru Dik, Huseyin Tarakci, Selma Tosun, Fatime Korkmaz, Servet Kolgelier, Fatma Yilmaz Karadag, Serpil Erol, Kamuran Turker, Ceyda Necan, Ahmet Melih Sahin, Pinar Ergen, Gulsen Iskender, Pinar Korkmaz, Esma Gulesen Eroglu, Yasemin Durdu, Mehmet Ulug, Suna Secil Deniz, Filiz Koc, Saygın Nayman Alpat, Nefise Oztoprak, Omer Evirgen, Hamdi Sozen, Mustafa Dogan, Selcuk Kaya, Safak Kaya, Mustafa Altindis, Emel Aslan, Recep Tekin, Busra Ergut Sezer, Kevser Ozdemir, Gulden Ersoz, Ahmet Sahin, Ilhami Celik, Emsal Aydin, Aliye Bastug, Rezan Harman, Hacer Deniz Ozkaya, Emine Parlak, Ilknur Yavuz, Suzan Sacar, Senol Comoglu, Ercan Yenilmez, Fatma Sirmatel, Ilker Inanc Balkan, Yesim Alpay, Mustafa Hatipoglu, Affan Denk, Gunes Senol, Mehmet Bitirgen, Mehmet Faruk Geyik, Rahmet Guner, Ayten Kadanali, Ahmet Karakas, Mustafa Namiduru, Hatice Udurgucu, Rukiye Pinar Boluktas, Ergenekon Karagoz, Necati Ormeci
Spanish version of the Parkinson’s Disease Questionnaire–Carer (PDQ-Carer)
Rosario Ferrer-Cascales, María José Cabañero-Martínez, Miriam Sánchez-SanSegundo, Nereida Congost-Maestre, Crispin Jenkinson
Victimisation, poly-victimisation and health-related quality of life among high school students in Vietnam: a cross-sectional survey
Minh T. H. Le, Sara Holton, Huong T. Nguyen, Rory Wolfe, Jane Fisher
Exercise stereotypes and health-related outcomes in French people living with HIV: development and validation of an HIV Exercise Stereotypes Scale (HIVESS)
Laura Gray, Charlène Falzon, Alessandro Bergamaschi, Laura Schuft, Jacques Durant, Eric Rosenthal, Christian Pradier, Martin Duracinsky, Isabelle Rouanet, Serge S. Colson, Fabienne d’Arripe-Longueville
Health-related quality of life in patients with Barrett’s esophagus
Chi-Yang Chang, Lukas Jyuhn-Hsiarn Lee, Jung-Der Wang, Ching-Tai Lee, Chi-Ming Tai, Tao-Qian Tang, Jaw-Town Lin
Comorbidities and characteristics of coronary heart disease patients: their impact on health-related quality of life
Ksenija Tušek-Bunc, Davorina Petek
Perceptions and experiences of patients living with implantable cardioverter defibrillators: a systematic review and meta-synthesis
Sim Leng Ooi, Hong-Gu He, Yanhong Dong, Wenru Wang
Patient-reported outcome measures in patients with peripheral arterial disease: a systematic review of psychometric properties
Edith Poku, Rosie Duncan, Anju Keetharuth, Munira Essat, Patrick Phillips, Helen Buckley Woods, Simon Palfreyman, Georgina Jones, Eva Kaltenthaler, Jonathan Michaels
The impact of shift and night work on health related quality of life of working women: findings from the Korea Health Panel
Woorim Kim, Tae Hyun Kim, Tae-Hoon Lee, Jae Woo Choi, Eun-Cheol Park
Estimation of utility weights for human papilloma virus-related health states according to disease severity
Minsu Ock, Jeong-Yeol Park, Woo-Seung Son, Hyeon-Jeong Lee, Seon-Ha Kim, Min-Woo Jo
“When I saw walking I just kind of took it as wheeling”: interpretations of mobility-related items in generic, preference-based health state instruments in the context of spinal cord injury
Yvonne Anne Michel, Lidia Engel, Kim Rand-Hendriksen, Liv Ariane Augestad, David GT Whitehurst
Socioeconomic inequalities in health-related quality of life between men and women, 5 years after a coronary angiography
Anastase Tchicaya, Nathalie Lorentz
Relationship between weight status and health-related quality of life in Chinese primary school children in Guangzhou: a cross-sectional study
Wei Liu, Rong Lin, Weijia Liu, Zhongshan Guo, Lihua Xiong, Bai Li, K. K. Cheng, Peymane Adab, Miranda Pallan
Impact of the occurrence of a response shift on the determination of the minimal important difference in a health-related quality of life score over time
Ahmad Ousmen, Thierry Conroy, Francis Guillemin, Michel Velten, Damien Jolly, Mariette Mercier, Sylvain Causeret, Jean Cuisenier, Olivier Graesslin, Zeinab Hamidou, Franck Bonnetain, Amélie Anota
Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the French version of the Expanded Prostate cancer Index Composite questionnaire for health-related quality of life in prostate cancer patients
Amélie Anota, Anne-Sophie Mariet, Philippe Maingon, Florence Joly, Jean-François Bosset, Anne-Valérie Guizard, Hugues Bittard, Michel Velten, Mariette Mercier
Diet and physical activity in people with intermediate cardiovascular risk and their relationship with the health-related quality of life: results from the MARK study
Natalia Sanchez-Aguadero, Rosario Alonso-Dominguez, Luis Garcia-Ortiz, Cristina Agudo-Conde, Carmela Rodriguez-Martin, Angela de Cabo-Laso, Benigna Sanchez-Salgado, Rafel Ramos, Jose A. Maderuelo-Fernandez, Manuel A. Gomez-Marcos, Jose I. Recio-Rodriguez, Rafel Ramos, Ruth Martí, Dídac Parramon, Anna Ponjoan, Miquel Quesada, Maria Garcia-Gil, Martina Sidera, Lourdes Camós, Fernando Montesinos, Ignacio Montoya, Carlos López, Anna Agell, Núria Pagès, Irina Gil, Anna Maria Castro, Fernando Rigo, Guillermo Frontera, Antònia Rotger, Natalia Feuerbach, Susana Pons, Natividad Garcia, John Guillaumet, Micaela Llull, Mercedes Gutierrez, Cristina Agudo-Conde, Leticia Gómez-Sanchez, Carmen Castaño-Sanchez, Carmela Rodriguez-Martín, Benigna Sanchez-Salgado, Angela de Cabo-Laso, Marta Gómez-Sánchez, Emiliano Rodriguez-Sanchez, Jose Angel Maderuelo-Fernandez, Emilio Ramos-Delgado, Carmen Patino-Alonso, Jose I. Recio-Rodriguez, Manuel A. Gomez-Marcos, Luis Garcia-Ortiz
Psychometric properties of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS): secondary analysis of the Mexican Health and Aging Study
Mariana López-Ortega, Sara Torres-Castro, Oscar Rosas-Carrasco
From early detection to rehabilitation in the community: reading beyond the blog testimonies of survivors’ quality of life and prostate cancer representation
Margareth Santos Zanchetta, Marguerite Cognet, Mary Rachel Lam-Kin-Teng, Marie Elisabeth Dumitriu, Lise Renaud, Jacques Rhéaume