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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Ausgabe 1/2020

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Assessing quality of life in older adults: psychometric properties of the OPQoL-brief questionnaire in a nursing home population

Gørill Haugan, Jorunn Drageset, Beate André, Kamile Kukulu, James Mugisha, Britt Karin S. Utvær

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Developing item banks to measure three important domains of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in Singapore

Elenore Judy B. Uy, Lynn Yun Shan Xiao, Xiaohui Xin, Joanna Peck Tiang Yeo, Yong Hao Pua, Geok Ling Lee, Yu Heng Kwan, Edmund Pek Siang Teo, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Mythily Subramaniam, Mei Fen Chan, Nisha Kumar, Alcey Li Chang Ang, Dianne Carrol Bautista, Yin Bun Cheung, Julian Thumboo

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Implementation analysis of patient reported outcomes (PROs) in oncological routine care: an observational study protocol

Mirja Gianna Görlach, Theresa Schrage, Carsten Bokemeyer, Nicolaus Kröger, Volkmar Müller, Cordula Petersen, Christian Stephan Betz, Andreas Krüll, Holger Schulz, Christiane Bleich

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Relationship between disease activity status or clinical response and patient-reported outcomes in patients with non-radiographic axial spondyloarthritis: 104-week results from the randomized controlled EMBARK study

Maxime Dougados, Désirée van der Heijde, Wen-Chan Tsai, Diego Saaibi, Lisa Marshall, Heather Jones, Ron Pedersen, Bonnie Vlahos, Miriam Tarallo

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Quality of life in children with infrequent congenital heart defects: cohort study with one-year of follow-up

Karen Moreno-Medina, Magally Barrera-Castañeda, Catalina Vargas-Acevedo, Alberto E. García-Torres, Miguel Ronderos, Manuel Huertas-Quiñones, Silvana Cabrera, María Teresa Domínguez, Nestor Sandoval Reyes, Rodolfo J. Dennis

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Patient’s early satisfaction with care: a predictor of health-related quality of life change among outpatients with substance dependence

Ophélie Müller, Cédric Baumann, Paolo Di Patrizio, Sarah Viennet, Guillaume Vlamynck, Laura Collet, Isabelle Clerc-Urmès, Raymund Schwan, Stéphanie Bourion-Bédès

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Factors associated with quality of life of adult patients with acute leukemia and their family caregivers in China: a cross-sectional study

Chunfeng Wang, Jie Yan, Jingyi Chen, Ying Wang, Ying Chun Lin, Rong Hu, Yong Wu

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Psychometric properties of the Danish Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in patients with cardiac disease: results from the DenHeart survey

Anne Vinggaard Christensen, Jane K. Dixon, Knud Juel, Ola Ekholm, Trine Bernholdt Rasmussen, Britt Borregaard, Rikke Elmose Mols, Lars Thrysøe, Charlotte Brun Thorup, Selina Kikkenborg Berg

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Item generation for a proxy health related quality of life measure in very young children

Janine Verstraete, Lebogang Ramma, Jennifer Jelsma

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A new model of patient-reported outcome monitoring with a clinical feedback system in ostomy care: rationale, description and evaluation protocol

Kirsten Lerum Indrebø, Anny Aasprang, Torill Elin Olsen, John Roger Andersen

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Association of leisure and occupational physical activities and health-related quality of life: Tehran Lipid and Glucose Study

Sara Jalali-Farahani, Parisa Amiri, Kiana Torshizi, Leila Cheraghi, Masoume AvatefFazeli, Fereidoun Azizi

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Complete resolution of urinary incontinence with treatment improved the health-related quality of life of children with functional daytime urinary incontinence: a prospective study

Hirokazu Ikeda, Chisato Oyake, Yuta Oonuki, Masaki Fuyama, Tsuneki Watanabe, Takashi Kyoda, Setuko Tamura

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Cross-cultural adaptions and measurement properties of the WORC (Western Ontario rotator cuff index): a systematic review

Rochelle Furtado, Joy C. MacDermid, Goris Nazari, Dianne M. Bryant, Kenneth J. Faber, George S. Athwal

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The quality of life of the patients with diabetes type 2 using EQ-5D-5 L in Birjand

Mohammad Reza Abedini, Bita Bijari, Zahra Miri, Fatemeh Shakhs Emampour, Ali Abbasi

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Health-related quality of life in adolescents with persistent pain and the mediating role of self-efficacy: a cross-sectional study

Erik Grasaas, Sølvi Helseth, Liv Fegran, Jennifer Stinson, Milada Småstuen, Kristin Haraldstad

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Evaluating prevalence of depression, anxiety and hopelessness in patients with Vitiligo on an Iranian population

Nasrin Hamidizadeh, Sara Ranjbar, Ahmad Ghanizadeh, Mohammad Mahdi Parvizi, Peyman Jafari, Farhad Handjani

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Association between perception of care coordination and health outcomes in Korean cancer survivors

Jinyoung Shin, Dong Wook Shin, Jungkwon Lee, Ji Hye Hwang, Jung Eun Yoo, Hyeonyoung Ko, Yun-Mi Song

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Comparing the EQ-5D-3 L and EQ-5D-5 L: studying measurement and scores in Indonesian type 2 diabetes mellitus patients

Bustanul Arifin, Fredrick Dermawan Purba, Hendra Herman, John M. F. Adam, Jarir Atthobari, Catharina C. M. Schuiling-Veninga, Paul F. M. Krabbe, Maarten J. Postma

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Psychometric properties of the Malay version of the Diabetes Empowerment Scale among Hospital Serdang type 2 diabetes mellitus patients using exploratory factor analysis

Siew Mooi Ching, Anne Yee, Ping Yein Lee, Vasudevan Ramachandran, Khai Mun Shum, Nur Fati’Izzati Ismael, Wan Aliaa Wan Sulaiman, Fan Kee Hoo, Yoke Loong Foo, Kai Wei Lee, Mahmoud Danaee, Kit-Aun Tan

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Menopausal symptoms in relationship to breast cancer-specific quality of life after adjuvant cytotoxic treatment in young breast cancer survivors

Winnie Yeo, Elizabeth Pang, Giok S. Liem, Joyce J. S. Suen, Rita Y. W. Ng, Christopher C. H. Yip, Leung Li, Claudia H. W. Yip, Frankie K. F. Mo

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Impact of polyunsaturated fatty acids on patient-important outcomes in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a systematic review

Franco De Crescenzo, Gian Loreto D’Alò, Gian Paolo Morgano, Silvia Minozzi, Zuzana Mitrova, Rosella Saulle, Fabio Cruciani, Francesca Fulceri, Marina Davoli, Maria Luisa Scattoni, Francesco Nardocci, Holger Jens Schünemann, Laura Amato, Francesco Nardocci

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Measurement invariance across gender and age groups, validity and reliability of the Chinese version of the short-form supportive care needs survey questionnaire (SCNS-SF34)

Edmond Pui Hang Choi, Qiuyan Liao, Inda Soong, Karen Kar Loen Chan, Conrad C. Y. Lee, Alice Ng, Wing Kin Sze, Janice Wing Hang Tsang, Victor Ho Fun Lee, Wendy Wing Tak Lam

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Defining the content of a minimal dataset for acquired brain injury using a Delphi procedure

Anne-Fleur Domensino, Ieke Winkens, Jolanda C. M. van Haastregt, Coen A. M. van Bennekom, Caroline M. van Heugten

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Factors affecting the quality of life in women with gestational diabetes mellitus: a path analysis model

Soheila Ansarzadeh, Leili Salehi, Zohreh Mahmoodi, Abolfazl Mohammadbeigi

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Examining the factorial validity of the Quality of Life Scale

Ashley J. Reeves, Russell T. Baker, Madeline P. Casanova, Scott W. Cheatham, Michael A. Pickering

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Psychometric evaluation of the traditional Chinese version of the resilience Scale-14 and assessment of resilience in Hong Kong adolescents

Joyce Oi Kwan Chung, Katherine Ka Wai Lam, Ka Yan Ho, Ankie Tan Cheung, Long Kwan Ho, Viveka Wei Xei, Faith Gibson, William Ho Cheung Li

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Cognitive performance of individuals with animal hoarding

Luis Henrique Paloski, Elisa Arrienti Ferreira, Dalton Breno Costa, Camila Rosa de Oliveira, Carmen Moret-Tatay, Tatiana Quarti Irigaray

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Evaluation of the reliability and validity of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) questionnaire translated into Malagasy

Jeannot Randrianarivony, Justin Jacques Ravelomanantsoa, Noeline Razanamihaja

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Health-related quality of life and flourishing in current and former recreational and elite cricketers

Garrett S. Bullock, Gary S. Collins, Nick Peirce, Nigel K. Arden, Stephanie R. Filbay

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Neighbourhood-level deprivation indices and postpartum women’s health: results from the Community Child Health Network (CCHN) multi-site study

Vered Kaufman-Shriqui, Patricia O’Campo, Vachan Misir, Peter Schafer, Julia Morinis, Maxine Vance, Christine Dunkel Schetter, Tonse N. K. Raju, Marianne M. Hillemeier, Robin Lanzi, Vernon M. Chinchilli, M. Vance, C. S. Minkovitz, P. O’Campo, P. Schafer, K. Walton, K. Wagenaar, M. Shalowitz, E. Adam, G. Duncan, A. Schoua-Glusberg, C. McKinney, T. McDade, C. Simon, E. Clark-Kauffman, L. Jones, C. Hobel, C. Dunkel Schetter, M. C. Lu, B. Chung, F. Jones, D. Serafin, D. Young, S. Evans, J. Ruffin, R. Woolard, J. Thorp, J. DeClerque, C. Dolbier, C. Lorenz, L. S. Sahadeo, K. Salisbury, L. Patchen, S. L. Ramey, R. G. Lanzi, N. Timraz, R. German, V. M. Chinchilli, R. Belue, G. Brown Faulkner, M. Hillemeier, I. Paul, M. L. Shaffer, G. Snyder, E. Lehman, C. Stetter, J. Schmidt, K. Cerullo, S. Whisler, J. Fisher, J. Boyer, M. Payton, V. J. Evans, T. N. K. Raju, L. Weglicki, M. Spittel, M. Willinger, Y. Bryan, M. Phillippe, E. Fuentes-Afflick

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Demonstration of high value care to improve oral health of a remote Indigenous community in Australia

Sanjeewa Kularatna, Ratilal Lalloo, Jeroen Kroon, Santosh K. K. Tadakamadla, Paul A. Scuffham, Newell W. Johnson

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Income-related inequality in quality-adjusted life expectancy in Korea at the national and district levels

Dohee Lim, Jinwook Bahk, Minsu Ock, Ikhan Kim, Hee-Yeon Kang, Yeon-Yong Kim, Jong Heon Park, Young-Ho Khang

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Personality traits and the risk of becoming lonely in old age: A 5-year follow-up study

Heidi Ormstad, Grethe Eilertsen, Trond Heir, Leiv Sandvik

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Parkinson’s disease with early motor complications: predicting EQ-5D- 3L utilities from PDQ-39 data in the EARLYSTIM trial

Mehdi Zahra, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Michal Górecki, Silke Walleser Autiero, Gillian Barnett, W. M. Michael Schüpbach

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Assessing whether ad hoc clinician-generated patient questionnaires provide psychometrically valid information

Minji K. Lee, Jeffrey R. Basford, Allen W. Heinemann, Andrea Cheville

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Quality of life in subjects with upper- and lower-limb spasticity treated with incobotulinumtoxinA

Klemens Fheodoroff, Tiina Rekand, Luisa Medeiros, Peter Koßmehl, Jörg Wissel, Djamel Bensmail, Astrid Scheschonka, Birgit Flatau-Baqué, Olivier Simon, Dirk Dressler, David M. Simpson

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Regression-based normative data for social health scale for the elderly (short version) in eastern China

Zhe-Bin Yu, Cheng-Zhen Bao, Meng-Yin Wu, Dan-Jie Jiang, Xiao-Cong Zhang, Shu-Juan Lin, Ming-Juan Jin, Jian-Bing Wang, Meng-Ling Tang, Kun Chen

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Understanding the relationships between mental disorders, self-reported health outcomes and positive mental health: findings from a national survey

Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Siow Ann Chong, Edimansyah Abdin, Fiona Devi Siva Kumar, Boon Yiang Chua, Rajeswari Sambasivam, Saleha Shafie, Anitha Jeyagurunathan, Esmond Seow, Mythily Subramaniam

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Health related quality of life associated with extreme obesity in adolescents – results from the baseline evaluation of the YES-study

J. Felix, R. Stark, C. Teuner, R. Leidl, B. Lennerz, S. Brandt, J. von Schnurbein, A. Moss, E. Bollow, E. Sergeyev, Y. Mühlig, S. Wiegand, R. W. Holl, T. Reinehr, W. Kiess, A. Scherag, J. Hebebrand, M. Wabitsch, R. Holle

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Quality of life, level of functioning, and its relationship with mental and physical disorders in the elderly: results from the MentDis_ICF65+ study

Luigi Grassi, Rosangela Caruso, Chiara Da Ronch, Martin Härter, Holger Schulz, Jana Volkert, Maria Dehoust, Susanne Sehner, Anna Suling, Karl Wegscheider, Berta Ausín, Alessandra Canuto, Manuel Muñoz, Mike J. Crawford, Yael Hershkovitz, Alan Quirk, Ora Rotenstein, Ana Belén Santos-Olmo, Arieh Shalev, Jens Strehle, Kerstin Weber, Hans-Ulrich Wittchen, Sylke Andreas, Martino Belvederi Murri, Luigi Zerbinati, Maria Giulia Nanni

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Improved RIDIT statistic approach provides more intuitive and informative interpretation of EQ-5D data

Abdelghafour Marfak, Ibtissam Youlyouz-Marfak, Youness El Achhab, Elmadani Saad, Chakib Nejjari, Abderraouf Hilali, Jack Turman Jr

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Validation of the Chinese version of the Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS)

Hao Wu, Xin Zhao, Shuaishuai Chu, Fangxia Xu, Jia Song, Zhengliang Ma, Xiaoping Gu

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Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of the World Health Organization quality of life-old module (WHOQOL-OLD) for Persian-speaking populations

Hassan Rezaeipandari, Mohammad Ali Morowatisharifabad, Asghar Mohammadpoorasl, Abdolreza Shaghaghi

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The associations between psychological distress and health-related quality of life in patients with non-cardiac chest pain

Ghassan Mourad, Jenny Alwin, Tiny Jaarsma, Anna Strömberg, Peter Johansson

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The psychometric properties of the Italian adaptation of the Health Orientation Scale (HOS)

M. Masiero, S. Oliveri, I. Cutica, D. Monzani, F. Faccio, K. Mazzocco, G. Pravettoni

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The Chinese version of the Perceived Stress Questionnaire: development and validation amongst medical students and workers

Runtang Meng, Jingjing Li, Zhenkun Wang, Di Zhang, Bing Liu, Yi Luo, Ying Hu, Chuanhua Yu

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Quality of life in elderly people after a hip fracture: a prospective study

Francisco Javier Amarilla-Donoso, Fidel López-Espuela, Raúl Roncero-Martín, Olga Leal-Hernandez, Luis Manuel Puerto-Parejo, Ignacio Aliaga-Vera, Rosaura Toribio-Felipe, Jesús María Lavado-García

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Health-related quality of life and associated factors among cervical cancer patients at Tikur Anbessa specialized hospital, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Liya Teklu Araya, Teferi Gedif Fenta, Beate Sander, Girma Tekle Gebremariam, Gebremedhin Beedemariam Gebretekle

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Determinants of health-related quality of life: a cross-sectional investigation in physician-managed anticoagulated patients using vitamin K antagonists

Arianna Magon, Cristina Arrigoni, Marco Moia, Michela Mancini, Federica Dellafiore, Duilio F. Manara, Rosario Caruso

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Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Yoruba version of the Back beliefs questionnaire among patients with chronic low-back pain

C. E. Mbada, O. A. Adeniyi, O. A. Idowu, C. T. Fatoye, A. C. Odole, F. Fatoye

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Assessing the proxy response bias of EQ–5D-3 L in general population: a study based on a large-scale representative household health survey using propensity score matching

Ying Liang, Tianle Che, Haiyue Zhang, Lei Shang, Yuhai Zhang, Yongyong Xu, Lingxia Guo, Zhijun Tan

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Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Canadian Haemophilia Outcomes-Kids’ Life Assessment Tool (CHO-KLAT) in Côte d’Ivoire (the Ivory Coast)

Catherine Lambert, N’ Dogomo Meité, Ibrahima Sanogo, Sébastien Lobet, Cedric Hermans, Séverine Henrard, Victor Blanchette, Nancy L. Young

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A new integrated approach for adolescent health and well-being: the AVATAR project

Francesca Mastorci, Luca Bastiani, Gabriele Trivellini, Cristina Doveri, Cristina Vassalle, Alessandro Pingitore

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Validation of the SF12 mental and physical health measure for the population from a low-income country in sub-Saharan Africa

Julius Ohrnberger, Laura Anselmi, Eleonora Fichera, Matt Sutton

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Multivariate multilevel modeling of quality of life dynamics of HIV infected patients

Zelalem G. Dessie, Temesgen Zewotir, Henry Mwambi, Delia North

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Introduction and methods of the evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and management of autism spectrum disorder by the Italian National Institute of Health

Gian Paolo Morgano, Francesca Fulceri, Franco Nardocci, Corrado Barbui, Giovanni Ostuzzi, Davide Papola, Laura Maria Fatta, Alice Josephine Fauci, Daniela Coclite, Antonello Napoletano, Franco De Crescenzo, Gian Loreto D’Alò, Laura Amato, Michela Cinquini, Primiano Iannone, Holger Jens Schünemann, Maria Luisa Scattoni, Maurizio Arduino, Cristina Bellosio, Sandra Biasci, Serafino Buono, Corrado Cappa, Concetta Cordò, Emanuela Di Tommaso, Clelia Maria Duff, Claudia Felici, Angelo Massagli, Massimo Molteni, Laura Reali, Raffaella Tancredi, Giovanni Valeri, Lorella Venturini, Alessandro Zuddas, Mauro Andreoli, Consuelo Bergamin, Marco Bertelli, Danilo Catania, Roberto Cavagnola, Pietro Cirrincione, Serafino Corti, Marusca Crognale, Raffaella Faggioli, Anna Maria Giogoli, Serenella Grittani, Roberto Keller, Pasqualina Pace, Pierluigi Politi, Fabrizio Starace, Marco Valenti, Sara Balduzzi, Michele Basile, Fabio Cruciani, Roberto D’Amico, Marina Davoli, Marien Gonzalez Lorenzo, Silvia Minozzi, Zuzana Mitrova, Ivan Moschetti, Vanna Pistotti, Rosella Saulle, Simona Vecchi

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Health-related quality of life in porphyria cutanea tarda: a cross-sectional registry based study

Janice Andersen, Janne Thomsen, Åshild Rostad Enes, Sverre Sandberg, Aasne K. Aarsand

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Environmental and individual factors associated with quality of life of adults who underwent bariatric surgery: a cohort study

Marina Dayrell de Oliveira Lima, Thales Philipe Rodrigues da Silva, Mariana Carvalho de Menezes, Larissa Loures Mendes, Milene Cristine Pessoa, Lauro Pinheiro Ferreira de Araújo, Roberto Guimarães Cabezas Andrade, Alexandra Dias Moreira D’Assunção, Bruna Figueiredo Manzo, Allana dos Reis Corrêa, Fernanda Batista Oliveira Santos, Sheila Aparecida Ferreira Lachtim, Giselle Lima de Freitas, Lucas Adailton Viana de Andrade, Marco Aurélio de Sousa, Fernanda Penido Matozinhos

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A biopsychosocial-cultural model for understanding oral-health-related quality of life among adolescent orthodontic patients

Hua Ao, Xiao Deng, Ying She, Xin Wen, Qingrong Wu, Fuguo Chen, Xiao Gao

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Italian validation of the health education impact questionnaire (heiQ) in people with chronic conditions

Andrea Pozza, Richard H. Osborne, Gerald R. Elsworth, Fabio Ferretti, Anna Coluccia

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Risk factors for limited improvement after total trapeziometacarpal joint arthroplasty

Sebastian Breddam Mosegaard, Maiken Stilling, Torben Bæk Hansen

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Quality of life after total laryngectomy: impact of different vocal rehabilitation methods in a middle income country

F. G. R. Souza, I. C. Santos, A. Bergmann, L. C. S. Thuler, A. S. Freitas, E. Q. Freitas, F. L. Dias

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Association between pubertal development stages and body adiposity in children and adolescents

Fernando Adami, Jucemar Benedet, Livia Akemi Ramos Takahashi, Adair da Silva Lopes, Laércio da Silva Paiva, Francisco de Assis Guedes de Vasconcelos

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Validation of the Chinese EORTC chronic lymphocytic leukaemia module – application of classical test theory and item response theory

Dong Dong, Jun Jin, Simone Oerlemans, Siyue Yu, Shenmiao Yang, Jianfeng Zhu, Richard Huan Xu

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Comparing the performance of the EQ-5D-3 L and the EQ-5D-5 L in an elderly Chinese population

Ruxu You, Jinyu Liu, Zhihao Yang, Chenwei Pan, Qinghua Ma, Nan Luo

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Switch from intravenous or intramuscular to subcutaneous hepatitis B immunoglobulin: effect on quality of life after liver transplantation

Riccardo Volpes, Patrizia Burra, Giacomo Germani, Matteo Angelo Manini, Lucio Caccamo, Paolo Strignano, Giorgia Rizza, Mariarosa Tamè, Antonio Daniele Pinna, Fulvio Calise, Carla Migliaccio, Paola Carrai, Paolo De Simone, Maria Filippa Valentini, Luigi Giovanni Lupo, Gabriella Cordone, Francesco Paolo Picciotto, Antonio Nicolucci

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Measuring stress in Australia: validation of the perceived stress scale (PSS-14) in a national sample

Pedro H. Ribeiro Santiago, Tine Nielsen, Lisa Gaye Smithers, Rachel Roberts, Lisa Jamieson

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Equity, acceptability and feasibility of using polyunsaturated fatty acids in children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder: a rapid systematic review

Gian Loreto D’Alò, Franco De Crescenzo, Silvia Minozzi, Gian Paolo Morgano, Zuzana Mitrova, Maria Luisa Scattoni, Laura Amato, Marina Davoli, Holger J. Schünemann, Franco Nardocci, Raffaella Tancredi, Angelo Massagli, Giovanni Valeri, Corrado Cappa, Serafino Buono, Giuseppe M. Arduino, Alessandro Zuddas, Laura Reali, Massimo Molteni, Claudia Felici, Concetta Cordò, Lorella Venturini, Cristina Bellosio, Emanuela Di Tommaso, Sandra Biasci, Clelia M. Duff

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Health-related quality of life and scar satisfaction in a cohort of children operated on for sacrococcygeal teratoma

Mette Hambraeus, Lars Hagander, Einar Arnbjörnsson, Anna Börjesson, Pernilla Stenström

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Psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-BREF among next of kin to older persons in nursing homes

Helena Rosén, Gerd Ahlström, Annika Lexén

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Brief version of the coping health inventory for parents (CHIP) among family caregivers of children with chronic diseases

Filiberto Toledano-Toledano, José Moral de la Rubia, Laurie D. McCubbin, Bridget Cauley, David Luna

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Health related quality of life in adult primary Ciliary dyskinesia patients in Cyprus: development and validation of the Greek version of the QOL-PCD questionnaire

Phivos Ioannou, Panayiotis Kouis, Maria G. Kakkoura, Margarita Kaliva, Aristoula Toliopoulou, Kyriacos Andreou, Laura Behan, Jane S. Lucas, Vicky Papanikolaou, George Charalambous, Nicos Middleton, Panayiotis K. Yiallouros

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Health related quality of life in chronic kidney disease; a descriptive study in a rural Sri Lankan community affected by chronic kidney disease

Sameera Senanayake, Nalika Gunawardena, Paba Palihawadana, Shanika Senanayake, R. Karunarathna, Priyantha Kumara, Sanjeewa Kularatna

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Quality of life impact of refractive correction (QIRC) results three years after SMILE and FS-LASIK

Tian Han, Ye Xu, Xiao Han, Jianmin Shang, Li Zeng, Xingtao Zhou

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Health-related quality of life measured using the EQ-5D–5 L: population norms for the capital of Iran

Zahra Emrani, Ali Akbari Sari, Hojjat Zeraati, Alireza Olyaeemanesh, Rajabali Daroudi

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Influence of schooling on the health-related quality of life of children with rare diseases

Berta Paz-Lourido, Francisca Negre, Begoña de la Iglesia, Sebastià Verger

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Association between social health status and health-related quality of life among community-dwelling elderly in Zhejiang

Jieming Lu, Zhebin Yu, Xiaocong Zhang, Mengyin Wu, Shujuan Lin, Yao Zhu, Zenghao Xu, Liuqing You, Fang Wei, Mengling Tang, Mingjuan Jin, Jianbing Wang, Kun Chen

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Migraine screen questionnaire: further psychometric evidence from categorical data methods

Md. Dilshad Manzar, Unaise Abdul Hameed, Mohammed Salahuddin, Mohammad Yunus Ali Khan, Dejen Nureye, Wakuma Wakene, Majed Alamri, Abdulrhman Albougami, Seithikuruppu R. PandiPerumal, Ahmed S. Bahammam

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Association between sleep quality and domains of quality of life amongst patients with first episode psychosis

Wei Jie Ong, Xiao Wei Tan, Shazana Shahwan, Pratika Satghare, Laxman Cetty, Boon Tat Ng, Charmaine Tang, Swapna Verma, Siow Ann Chong, Mythily Subramaniam

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Mapping the Minnesota living with heart failure questionnaire (MLHFQ) to EQ-5D-5L in patients with heart failure

Sanjeewa Kularatna, Sameera Senanayake, Gang Chen, William Parsonage

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Modelling disease course in amyotrophic lateral Sclerosis: pseudo-longitudinal insights from cross-sectional health-related quality of life data

Tino Prell, Nayana Gaur, Robert Steinbach, Otto W. Witte, Julian Grosskreutz

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Transcultural adaptation and validation of a Korean version of the Oxford Ankle Foot Questionnaire for children

Seong Hee Cho, Chin Youb Chung, Moon Seok Park, Kyoung Min Lee, Ki Hyuk Sung

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Quality of life and influencing factors of patients with rheumatoid arthritis in Northeast China

Bingqing Bai, Meng Chen, Lingyu Fu, Haina Liu, Lei Jin, Tingting Wei, Fangran Xin

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Informing the measurement of wellbeing among young people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa for policy evaluations: a mixed-methods systematic review

Darshini Govindasamy, Janet Seeley, Ioana D. Olaru, Alison Wiyeh, Catherine Mathews, Giulia Ferrari

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Is the Patient Activation Measure a valid measure of osteoarthritis self-management attitudes and capabilities? Results of a Rasch analysis

J. P. Eyles, M. Ferreira, K. Mills, B. R. Lucas, S. R. Robbins, M. Williams, H. Lee, S. Appleton, D. J. Hunter

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Applicability of health promoting lifestyle profile-II for postmenopausal women in Sri Lanka; a validation study

Nirmala Rathnayake, Gayani Alwis, Janaka Lenora, Sarath Lekamwasam

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Relationship of different intensities of physical activity and quality of life in postmenopausal women

Juliana Felipe, Juliana Viezel, Andréa Dias Reis, Emili Amice da Costa Barros, Thais Reis Silva de Paulo, Lucas Melo Neves, Ismael Forte Freitas Júnior

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Creation and validation of the 4-item BriefPCS-chronic through methodological triangulation

David M. Walton, Swati Mehta, Wonjin Seo, Joy C. MacDermid

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Practice guidelines on migrants’ health: assessment of their quality and reporting

Tamara Lotfi, Mohamad I. Itani, Pamela Howeiss, Lama Kilzar, Nesrine A. Rizk, Elie A. Akl

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Health-related quality of life among community-dwelling people aged 80 years and over: a cross-sectional study in France

Isabelle Jalenques, Fabien Rondepierre, Chloé Rachez, Sophie Lauron, Candy Guiguet-Auclair

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Using Rasch measurement theory to assess the psychometric properties of a depressive symptoms scale in Norwegian adolescents

Annette Løvheim Kleppang, Anne Mari Steigen, Hanne Søberg Finbråten

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Understanding the burden of illness of excessive daytime sleepiness associated with obstructive sleep apnea: a qualitative study

Laura Tesler Waldman, Sairam Parthasarathy, Kathleen F. Villa, Morgan Bron, Shay Bujanover, Meryl Brod

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Factors associated with health related quality of life of patients with stroke in Sri Lankan context

Pramudika Nirmani Kariyawasam, Kithsiri Dedduwa Pathirana, Don Chandana Hewage

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The effect of weight loss and exercise on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) following Endoscopic Bariatric Therapies (EBT) for obesity

Gontrand Lopez-Nava, Ravishankar Asokkumar, T. Lacruz, A. Rull, L. Beltran, Inmaculada Bautista-Castaño

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