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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Ausgabe 1/2003

Inhalt (81 Artikel)

Open Access Editorial

Not-only-a-title

Clare Bradley, Marcello Tamburini

Open Access Research

Do English and Chinese EQ-5D versions demonstrate measurement equivalence? an exploratory study

Nan Luo, Ling-Huo Chew, Kok-Yong Fong, Dow-Rhoon Koh, Swee-Cheng Ng, Kam-Hon Yoon, Sheila Vasoo, Shu-Chuen Li, Julian Thumboo

Open Access Research

Dyspnea and quality of life indicators in hospice patients and their caregivers

Linda E Moody, Susan McMillan

Open Access Research

Impact of stress reduction on negative school behavior in adolescents

Vernon A Barnes, Lynnette B Bauza, Frank A Treiber

Open Access Review

Quality of Life measures for dementia

Rebecca E Ready, Brian R Ott

Open Access Research

Self-reported health-related quality of life in persons with HIV infection: results from a multi-site interview project

Michael L Campsmith, Allyn K Nakashima, Arthur J Davidson

Open Access Research

Development, validity and responsiveness of the Clinical COPD Questionnaire

Thys van der Molen, Brigitte WM Willemse, Siebrig Schokker, Nick HT ten Hacken, Dirkje S Postma, Elizabeth F Juniper

Open Access Research

The Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS): translation and validation study of the Iranian version

Ali Montazeri, Mariam Vahdaninia, Mandana Ebrahimi, Soghra Jarvandi

Open Access Review

The Aging Males' Symptoms (AMS) scale: Update and compilation of international versions

Lothar AJ Heinemann, Farid Saad, Thomas Zimmermann, Annoesjka Novak, Eric Myon, Xavier Badia, Peter Potthoff, Guy T'Sjoen, Pasi Pöllänen, Nikolai P Goncharow, Sehyun Kim, Christelle Giroudet

Open Access Research

Health-related quality of life, utility, and productivity outcomes instruments: ease of completion by subjects with COPD

Elisabeth Ståhl, Sven-Arne Jansson, Ann-Christin Jonsson, Klas Svensson, Bo Lundbäck, Fredrik Andersson

Open Access Research

Quality of life in lung cancer patients: does socioeconomic status matter?

Ali Montazeri, David J Hole, Robert Milroy, James McEwen, Charles R Gillis

Open Access Commentary

The need for scientists and judges to work together: regarding a new European network

Amedeo Santosuosso, Carlo Alberto Redi

Open Access Research

Adaptation of the MacNew quality of life questionnaire after myocardial infarction in an Iranian population

Mohsen Asadi-Lari, Hamid R Javadi, Martin Melville, Neil B Oldridge, David Gray

Open Access Commentary

A brief guide to the selection of quality of life instrument

Michael E Hyland

Open Access Commentary

Commentary on using the SF-36 or MOS-HIV in studies of persons with HIV disease

Jim Shahriar, Thomas Delate, Ron D Hays, Stephen Joel Coons

Open Access Research

Classical test theory versus Rasch analysis for quality of life questionnaire reduction

Luis Prieto, Jordi Alonso, Rosa Lamarca

Open Access Review

International versions of the Menopause Rating Scale (MRS)

Lothar AJ Heinemann, Peter Potthoff, Hermann PG Schneider

Open Access Commentary

The Hospital Anxiety And Depression Scale

R Philip Snaith

Open Access Research

Quality of Life in rural and urban populations in Lebanon using SF-36 Health Survey

Ibtissam Sabbah, Nabil Drouby, Sanaa Sabbah, Nathalie Retel-Rude, Mariette Mercier

Open Access Research

Quality of life in schizophrenia: A grounded theory approach

Louise Gee, Emma Pearce, Mike Jackson

Open Access Research

Evaluation of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) Spanish Version 4 in South America: Classic Psychometric and Item Response Theory Analyses

Juan J Dapueto, Carla Francolino, Liliana Servente, Chih-Hung Chang, Irene Gotta, Roberto Levin, María del Carmen Abreu

Open Access Commentary

Need for redefining needs

Mohsen Asadi-Lari, Chris Packham, David Gray

Open Access Review

The impact of urinary incontinence on self-efficacy and quality of life

Barbara Ann Shelton Broome

Open Access Research

The management of subjective quality of life by short-stay hospital patients: An exploratory study

David J Mellor, Robert A Cummins, Evelyn Karlinski, Shane P Storer

Open Access Review

Assessment of oral health related quality of life

P Finbarr Allen

Open Access Review

Quality of life in patients with coronary heart disease-I: Assessment tools

David R Thompson, Cheuk-Man Yu

Open Access Research

The development and preliminary validation of a Preference-Based Stroke Index (PBSI)

Lise Poissant, Nancy E Mayo, Sharon Wood-Dauphinee, Ann E Clarke

Open Access Review

Quality of Life in elderly patients with cancer

Massimo Di Maio, Francesco Perrone

Open Access Research

Utilization of the propensity score method: an exploratory comparison of proxy-completed to self-completed responses in the Medicare Health Outcomes Survey

Beth Hartman Ellis, Wade M Bannister, Jacquilyn Kay Cox, Brenda M Fowler, Erin Dowd Shannon, David Drachman, Randall W Adams, Laura A Giordano

Open Access Research

Functional status of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome in the Wichita, Kansas, population

Laura Solomon, Rosane Nisenbaum, Michele Reyes, Dimitris A Papanicolaou, William C Reeves

Open Access Research

A population-based study of the clinical course of chronic fatigue syndrome

Rosane Nisenbaum, James F Jones, Elizabeth R Unger, Michele Reyes, William C Reeves

Open Access Research

Preliminary development of a new individualised questionnaire measuring quality of life in older men with age-related hormonal decline: the A-RHDQoL

Carolyn V McMillan, Clare Bradley, Manthos Giannoulis, Finbarr Martin, Peter H Sönksen

Open Access Research

Validity and reliability of patient reported outcomes used in Psoriasis: results from two randomized clinical trials

Richard Shikiar, Brian W Bresnahan, Stephen P Stone, Christine Thompson, John Koo, Dennis A Revicki

Open Access Review

The Health Utilities Index (HUI®): concepts, measurement properties and applications

John Horsman, William Furlong, David Feeny, George Torrance

Open Access Research

Validation of the Rheumatoid and Arthritis Outcome Score (RAOS) for the lower extremity

Ann BI Bremander, Ingemar F Petersson, Ewa M Roos

Open Access Research

Spanish validation of the "Kidney Transplant Questionnaire": a useful instrument for assessing health related quality of life in kidney transplant patients

Pablo Rebollo, Francisco Ortega, Teresa Ortega, Covadonga Valdés, Mónica García-Mendoza, Ernesto Gómez

Open Access Research

Patients' satisfaction and quality of life in coronary artery disease

Mohsen Asadi-Lari, Chris Packham, David Gray

Open Access Review

Quality of life in patients with vitiligo

Davinder Parsad, Sunil Dogra, Amrinder Jit Kanwar

Open Access Research

The Flanagan Quality of Life Scale: Evidence of Construct Validity

Carol S Burckhardt, Kathryn L Anderson, Brigitha Archenholtz, Olle Hägg

Open Access Review

The Quality of Life Scale (QOLS): Reliability, Validity, and Utilization

Carol S Burckhardt, Kathryn L Anderson

Open Access Research

The health related quality of life of the employees in the Greek hospitals: assessing how healthy are the health workers

Yannis Tountas, Panayotes TH Demakakos, Yannis Yfantopoulos, Jenny Aga, Lambrini Houliara, Elpida Pavi

Open Access Research

Psychometric validation of the German translation of the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale (GSRS) and Quality of Life in Reflux and Dyspepsia (QOLRAD) questionnaire in patients with reflux disease

Károly R Kulich, Peter Malfertheiner, Ahmed Madisch, Joachim Labenz, Ekkehard Bayerdörffer, Stephan Miehlke, Jonas Carlsson, Ingela K Wiklund

Open Access Research

Health related quality of life in pregeriatric patients with chronic diseases at urban, public supported clinics

Lee Cheng, Salimah Cumber, Carlos Dumas, Ronald Winter, Kim M Nguyen, Linda Z Nieman

Open Access Research

Life at the end of life: beliefs about individual life after death and "good death" models - a qualitative study

Franco Toscani, Claudia Borreani, Paolo Boeri, Guido Miccinesi

Open Access Research

The 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12): translation and validation study of the Iranian version

Ali Montazeri, Amir Mahmood Harirchi, Mohammad Shariati, Gholamreza Garmaroudi, Mehdi Ebadi, Abolfazl Fateh

Open Access Research

A new measure of patient satisfaction with ocular hypotensive medications: The Treatment Satisfaction Survey for Intraocular Pressure (TSS-IOP)

Mark J Atkinson, William C Stewart, Joel M Fain, Jeanette A Stewart, Ravinder Dhawan, Essy Mozaffari, Jan Lohs

Open Access Research

Nocturnal sleep, daytime sleepiness, and quality of life in stable patients on hemodialysis

Kathy P Parker, Nancy G Kutner, Donald L Bliwise, James L Bailey, David B Rye

Open Access Research

Brief assessment of priority symptoms in hormone refractory prostate cancer: The FACT Advanced Prostate Symptom Index (FAPSI)

Susan Yount, David Cella, Donald Banik, Talat Ashraf, Daniel Shevrin

Open Access Research

Quality of life in multiple sclerosis: translation in French Canadian of the MSQoL-54

Catherine Acquadro, Louise Lafortune, Isabelle Mear

Open Access Research

Cultural Issues in Using the SF-36 Health Survey in Asia: Results from Taiwan

Hsu-Min Tseng, Jui-fen Rachel Lu, Barbara Gandek

Open Access Research

Health-related quality of life improves with treatment-related GERD symptom resolution after adjusting for baseline severity

Dennis A Revicki, Marc W Zodet, Sandra Joshua-Gotlib, Douglas Levine, Joseph A Crawley

Open Access Research

Vision related quality of life and topical glaucoma treatment side effects

Jean-Philippe Nordmann, Nadia Auzanneau, Séverine Ricard, Gilles Berdeaux

Open Access Research

Deep vein thrombosis: validation of a patient-reported leg symptom index

Stacie A Hudgens, David Cella, Carol Ann Caprini, Joseph A Caprini

Open Access Review

The Aging Males' Symptoms (AMS) scale: review of its methodological characteristics

Isolde Daig, Lothar AJ Heinemann, Sehyun Kim, Somboon Leungwattanakij, Xavier Badia, Eric Myon, Claudia Moore, Farid Saad, Peter Potthoff, Do Minh Thai

Open Access Research

Health-related quality of life deficits associated with varying degrees of disease severity in type 2 diabetes

Sheri L Maddigan, Sumit R Majumdar, Ellen L Toth, David H Feeny, Jeffrey A Johnson

Open Access Commentary

Problems and solutions in calculating quality-adjusted life years (QALYs)

Luis Prieto, José A Sacristán

Open Access Research

Health related quality of life in 3 and 4 year old children and their parents: preliminary findings about a new questionnaire

Anne F Klassen, Jeanne M Landgraf, Shoo K Lee, Morris Barer, Parminder Raina, Herbert WP Chan, Derek Matthew, David Brabyn