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Quality of Life Research

Ausgabe 4/2014

Inhalt (36 Artikel)

Commentary

Let’s engage the patient within us: a personal perspective on patient engagement

Carolyn E. Schwartz, Madeleine King, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers

Parent-reported cognition of children with cancer and its potential clinical usefulness

Jin-Shei Lai, Frank Zelko, Kevin R. Krull, David Cella, Cindy Nowinski, Peter E. Manley, Stewart Goldman

Cancer-specific health-related quality of life in children with brain tumors

Iori Sato, Akiko Higuchi, Takaaki Yanagisawa, Akitake Mukasa, Kohmei Ida, Yutaka Sawamura, Kazuhiko Sugiyama, Nobuhito Saito, Toshihiro Kumabe, Mizuhiko Terasaki, Ryo Nishikawa, Yasushi Ishida, Kiyoko Kamibeppu

Review

Meta-analysis shows clinically relevant and long-lasting deterioration in health-related quality of life after esophageal cancer surgery

M. Jacobs, R. C. Macefield, R. G. Elbers, K. Sitnikova, I. J. Korfage, E. M. A. Smets, I. Henselmans, M. I. van Berge Henegouwen, J. C. J. M. de Haes, J. M. Blazeby, M. A. G. Sprangers

Review

Quality of life in overweight and obese children and adolescents: a literature review

Marie Buttitta, Catalina Iliescu, Amélie Rousseau, Alain Guerrien

Review

Effect of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders on quality of life: a meta-analysis

Stefan G. Hofmann, Jade Q. Wu, Hannah Boettcher, Jamie Sturm

Review

Meta-analysis shows clinically relevant and long-lasting deterioration in health-related quality of life after esophageal cancer surgery

M. Jacobs, R. C. Macefield, R. G. Elbers, K. Sitnikova, I. J. Korfage, E. M. A. Smets, I. Henselmans, M. I. van Berge Henegouwen, J. C. J. M. de Haes, J. M. Blazeby, M. A. G. Sprangers

Review

Oral Chinese herbal medicine for improvement of quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Yun-Lun Li, Jian-Qing Ju, Chuan-Hua Yang, Hai-Qiang Jiang, Jing-Wen Xu, Shi-Jun Zhang

Comparison of face-to-face interview and telephone interview administration of COPD assessment test: a randomized study

Guilherme F. da Silva, Maria Tereza A. Morano, Maria Penha U. Sales, Natalia B. Olegário, Antonio George M. Cavalcante, Eanes D. B. Pereira

Usefulness of translatability assessment: results from a retrospective study

Katrin Conway, Catherine Acquadro, Donald L. Patrick

Development of the PROMIS® pediatric global health (PGH-7) measure

Christopher B. Forrest, Katherine B. Bevans, Ramya Pratiwadi, JeanHee Moon, Rachel E. Teneralli, Jo M. Minton, Carole A. Tucker

Psychometric properties of the PROMIS® pediatric scales: precision, stability, and comparison of different scoring and administration options

James W. Varni, Brooke Magnus, Brian D. Stucky, Yang Liu, Hally Quinn, David Thissen, Heather E. Gross, I-Chan Huang, Darren A. DeWalt

Measuring daily fatigue using a brief scale adapted from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®)

Christopher Christodoulou, Stefan Schneider, Doerte U. Junghaenel, Joan E. Broderick, Arthur A. Stone

Brief Communication

Validating the Migraine-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire v2.1 (MSQ) in Italian inpatients with chronic migraine with a history of medication overuse

Alberto Raggi, Ambra Mara Giovannetti, Silvia Schiavolin, Matilde Leonardi, Gennaro Bussone, Licia Grazzi, Susanna Usai, Marcella Curone, Paola Di Fiore, Domenico D’Amico

Validation of a Quality of Life Questionnaire for Bronchiectasis: psychometric analyses of the Spanish QOL-B-V3.0

Casilda Olveira, Gabriel Olveira, Francisco Espildora, Rosa-Maria Giron, Gerard Muñoz, Alexandra L. Quittner, Miguel-Angel Martinez-Garcia

Brief Communication

Item reduction of the Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS-21) leads to the WURSS-11

Chidi N. Obasi, Roger L. Brown, Bruce P. Barrett

Validation and comparison of 15-D and EQ-5D-5L instruments in a Spanish Parkinson’s disease population sample

Miguel Ángel García-Gordillo, Borja del Pozo-Cruz, José Carmelo Adsuar, Fernando Ignacio Sánchez-Martínez, José María Abellán-Perpiñán

Measurement properties of the Adolescent Quality of Life Mental Health Scale (AQOL-MHS)

Ligia M. Chavez, Rafael Ramirez, Pedro Garcia, Glorisa Canino, Karen Mir, Nyrma Ortiz, Leo S. Morales

How do life-course trajectories of socioeconomic position affect quality of life in patients with diabetes mellitus?

Hye Ah Lee, Ko Eun Lee, Yool Won Jeong, Jaeseon Ryu, Minkyung Kim, Jung Won Min, Young Sun Hong, Kyunghee Jung-Choi, Hyesook Park

Brief Communication

Quality of life of leprosy sequelae patients living in a former leprosarium under home care: univariate analysis

Leonardo Cançado Monteiro Savassi, Tatiana Roberta Sarubi Bogutchi, Anna Carolina Lustosa Lima, Celina Maria Modena

A cross-sectional study of psychological complaints and quality of life in severely injured patients

C. C. H. M. van Delft-Schreurs, J. J. M. van Bergen, P. van de Sande, M. H. J. Verhofstad, J. de Vries, M. A. C. de Jongh

Health-related quality of life during adjuvant radiotherapy in breast cancer

Sinikka Luutonen, Harri Sintonen, Teija Stormi, Eeva Salminen

The impact of weight loss on health-related quality-of-life: implications for cost-effectiveness analyses

Amy E. Rothberg, Laura N. McEwen, Andrew T. Kraftson, Gina M. Neshewat, Christine E. Fowler, Charles F. Burant, William H. Herman

Gender-specific quality of life after cancer in young adulthood: a comparison with the general population

Kristina Geue, Annekathrin Sender, Ricarda Schmidt, Diana Richter, Andreas Hinz, Thomas Schulte, Elmar Brähler, Yve Stöbel-Richter

Health-related quality of life among breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer patients with end-stage disease

Niilo Färkkilä, Saku Torvinen, Risto P. Roine, Harri Sintonen, Juha Hänninen, Kimmo Taari, Tiina Saarto

Masticatory factors as predictors of oral health-related quality of life among elderly people in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Kun-Jung Hsu, Huey-Er Lee, Yi-Min Wu, Shou-Jen Lan, Shun-Te Huang, Yea-Yin Yen

Erratum

Erratum to: Predictors of psychological well-being and stress among Jordanian menopausal women

Rania Y. Abdelrahman, Lubna A. Abushaikha, Mohammad A. al-Motlaq

Erratum

Erratum to: SF-36v2 norms and its’ discriminative properties among healthy households of tuberculosis patients in Malaysia

Muhammad Atif, Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman, Asrul Akmal Shafie, Muhammad Asif, Nafees Ahmad