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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Ausgabe 1/2007

Inhalt (71 Artikel)

Open Access Commentary

Measuring the psychosocial consequences of screening

John Brodersen, Stephen P McKenna, Lynda C Doward, Hanne Thorsen

Open Access Research

Factor structure of the Singapore English version of the KINDL® children quality of life questionnaire

Hwee-Lin Wee, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, Michael Erhart, Shu-Chuen Li

Open Access Research

Parental perceptions of children's oral health: The Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS)

Bhavna Talekar Pahel, R Gary Rozier, Gary D Slade

Open Access Research

Translation and validation of non-English versions of the Ankylosing Spondylitis Quality of Life (ASQOL) questionnaire

Lynda C Doward, Stephen P McKenna, David M Meads, James Twiss, Dennis Revicki, Robert L Wong, Michelle P Luo

Open Access Research

The PedsQL™ as a patient-reported outcome in children and adolescents with fibromyalgia: an analysis of OMERACT domains

James W Varni, Tasha M Burwinkle, Christine A Limbers, Ilona S Szer

Open Access Research

Self-report and parent-report of physical and psychosocial well-being in Dutch adolescents with type 1 diabetes in relation to glycemic control

Maartje de Wit, Henriette A Delemarre-van de Waal, Jan Alle Bokma, Krijn Haasnoot, Mieke C Houdijk, Reinoud J Gemke, Frank J Snoek

Open Access Research

A disease-specific measure of health-related quality of life for use in adults with immune thrombocytopenic purpura: Its development and validation

Susan D Mathias, James B Bussel, James N George, Robert McMillan, Gary J Okano, Janet L Nichol

Open Access Review

Assessment of fatigue in chronic disease: a bibliographic study of fatigue measurement scales

Niels Henrik Hjollund, Johan Hviid Andersen, Per Bech

Open Access Research

Assessment of Survivor Concerns (ASC): A newly proposed brief questionnaire

Carolyn C Gotay, Ian S Pagano

Open Access Research

The effect of co-morbidities on health-related quality of life in patients placed on the waiting list for total joint replacement

Ulla Tuominen, Marja Blom, Johanna Hirvonen, Seppo Seitsalo, Matti Lehto, Pekka Paavolainen, Kalevi Hietanieni, Pekka Rissanen, Harri Sintonen

Open Access Research

A Rasch and factor analysis of the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G)

Adam B Smith, Penny Wright, Peter J Selby, Galina Velikova

Open Access Research

Effects of risk-based multifactorial fall prevention on health-related quality of life among the community-dwelling aged: a randomized controlled trial

Sari Vaapio, Marika Salminen, Tero Vahlberg, Noora Sjösten, Raimo Isoaho, Pertti Aarnio, Sirkka-Liisa Kivelä

Open Access Research

Impairment of quality of life in parents of children and adolescents with pervasive developmental disorder

Diego Mugno, Liliana Ruta, Valentina Genitori D'Arrigo, Luigi Mazzone

Open Access Research

Development and multi-site validation of a new condition-specific quality of life measure for eating disorders

Carol E Adair, Gisele C Marcoux, Brian S Cram, Carol J Ewashen, Janet Chafe, Stephanie E Cassin, Jorge Pinzon, Joanne L Gusella, Josie Geller, Yvette Scattolon, Patricia Fergusson, Lisa Styles, Krista E Brown

Open Access Review

Quality of life assessment in women with breast cancer: benefits, acceptability and utilization

Sheila Perry, Theresa L Kowalski, Chih-Hung Chang

Open Access Research

Baseline characteristics influencing quality of life in women undergoing gynecologic oncology surgery

Karen M Gil, Heidi E Gibbons, Eric L Jenison, Michael P Hopkins, Vivian E von Gruenigen

Open Access Research

The predictive value of post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms for quality of life: a longitudinal study of physically injured victims of non-domestic violence

Venke A Johansen, Astrid K Wahl, Dag Erik Eilertsen, Lars Weisaeth, Berit R Hanestad

Open Access Research

Quality of life can both influence and be an outcome of general health perceptions after heart surgery

Lars Mathisen, Marit H Andersen, Marijke Veenstra, Astrid K Wahl, Berit R Hanestad, Erik Fosse

Open Access Research

Challenges and strategies of children and adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease: a qualitative examination

David B Nicholas, Anthony Otley, Claire Smith, Julie Avolio, Marla Munk, Anne M Griffiths

Open Access Research

Psychometric properties of a prostate cancer radiation late toxicity questionnaire

George Rodrigues, Glenn Bauman, Michael Lock, David D'Souza, Jeff Mahon

Open Access Research

Quality of life of adult retinoblastoma survivors in the Netherlands

Jennifer van Dijk, Saskia M Imhof, Annette C Moll, Peter J Ringens, Peggy T Cohen-Kettenis, Frank Rijmen, Jaap Huisman

Open Access Research

Living with muscular dystrophy: health related quality of life consequences for children and adults

Martha A Grootenhuis, Judith de Boone, Anneke J van der Kooi

Open Access Research

Responsiveness of measures of heartburn improvement in non-erosive reflux disease

Ola Junghard, Katarina Halling

Open Access Research

Performance of the EQ-5D and the EQ-5D+C in elderly patients with cognitive impairments

Claire AG Wolfs, Carmen D Dirksen, Alfons Kessels, Daniëlle CM Willems, Frans RJ Verhey, Johan L Severens

Open Access Research

Symptom burden among patients with Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC): content for a symptom index

Gale Harding, David Cella, Don Robinson Jr, Parthiv J Mahadevia, Jason Clark, Dennis A Revicki

Open Access Research

Health related quality of life six months following surgical treatment for secondary peritonitis – using the EQ-5D questionnaire

Kimberly R Boer, Oddeke van Ruler, Johannes B Reitsma, Cecilia W Mahler, Brent C Opmeer, E Ascelijn Reuland, Hein G Gooszen, Peter W de Graaf, Eric J Hesselink, Michael F Gerhards, E Philip Steller, Mirjam A Sprangers, Marja A Boermeester, Corianne A De Borgie

Open Access Research

Differences in the experience of fatigue in patients and healthy controls: patients' descriptions

Marieke F Gielissen, Hans Knoop, Petra Servaes, Joke S Kalkman, Marcus J Huibers, Stans Verhagen, Gijs Bleijenberg

Open Access Research

Development of a questionnaire to measure health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF-QoL)

Xavier Badia, Fernando Arribas, Jose Miguel Ormaetxe, Rafael Peinado, Miguel Sainz de los Terreros

Open Access Research

Serial personal digital assistant data capture of health-related quality of life: A randomized controlled trial in a prostate cancer clinic

Andrew G Matthew, Kristen L Currie, Jane Irvine, Paul Ritvo, Daniel Santa Mina, Leah Jamnicky, Robert Nam, John Trachtenberg

Open Access Research

Health related quality of life in older Mexican Americans with diabetes: A cross-sectional study

James E Graham, Diane G Stoebner-May, Glenn V Ostir, Soham Al Snih, M Kristen Peek, Kyriakos Markides, Kenneth J Ottenbacher

Open Access Review

A systematic review on the impact of leg ulceration on patients' quality of life

Oliver R Herber, Wilfried Schnepp, Monika A Rieger

Open Access Research

Quality of life in infants and children with atopic dermatitis: Addressing issues of differential item functioning across countries in multinational clinical trials

Stephen P McKenna, Lynda C Doward, David M Meads, Alan Tennant, Gemma Lawton, Jens Grueger

Open Access Research

Validation of two generic patient-reported outcome measures in patients with type 2 diabetes

Louis S Matza, Kristina S Boye, Nicole Yurgin

Open Access Research

Comparison of quality of life and causes of hospitalization between hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients in China

Ai-Hua Zhang, Li-Tao Cheng, Ning Zhu, Ling-Hua Sun, Tao Wang

Open Access Research

Quality of life at the end of life

Paula Diehr, William E Lafferty, Donald L Patrick, Lois Downey, Sean M Devlin, Leanna J Standish

Open Access Research

Multimorbidity and quality of life: a closer look

Martin Fortin, Marie-France Dubois, Catherine Hudon, Hassan Soubhi, José Almirall

Open Access Research

Studying the Hurdles of Insulin Prescription (SHIP©): development, scoring and initial validation of a new self-administered questionnaire

Luc Martinez, Silla M Consoli, Louis Monnier, Dominique Simon, Olivier Wong, Bernard Yomtov, Béatrice Guéron, Khadra Benmedjahed, Isabelle Guillemin, Benoit Arnould

Open Access Research

Correlated physical and mental health summary scores for the SF-36 and SF-12 Health Survey, V.1

Sepideh S Farivar, William E Cunningham, Ron D Hays

Open Access Research

Validity of SF-12 summary scores in a Greek general population

Nick Kontodimopoulos, Evelina Pappa, Dimitris Niakas, Yannis Tountas

Open Access Research

The impact of migraine prevention on daily activities: a longitudinal and responder analysis from three topiramate placebo-controlled clinical trials

Carl Dahlöf, Elizabeth Loder, Merle Diamond, Marcia Rupnow, George Papadopoulos, Lian Mao

Open Access Research

Quality of life in female myocardial infarction survivors: a comparative study with a randomly selected general female population cohort

Tone M Norekvål, Astrid K Wahl, Bengt Fridlund, Jan E Nordrehaug, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, Berit R Hanestad

Open Access Research

Health-related quality of life and migration: A cross-sectional study on elderly Iranians in Sweden

Afsaneh Koochek, Ali Montazeri, Sven-Erik Johansson, Jan Sundquist

Open Access Research

Family structure and health, how companionship acts as a buffer against ill health

Amelia R Turagabeci, Keiko Nakamura, Masashi Kizuki, Takehito Takano

Open Access Research

Correlates of patient satisfaction with physician visit: Differences between elderly and non-elderly survey respondents

Meg C Kong, Fabian T Camacho, Steven R Feldman, Roger T Anderson, Rajesh Balkrishnan

Open Access Research

The Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): development and UK validation

Ruth Tennant, Louise Hiller, Ruth Fishwick, Stephen Platt, Stephen Joseph, Scott Weich, Jane Parkinson, Jenny Secker, Sarah Stewart-Brown

Open Access Research

Recommended level of physical activity and health-related quality of life among Japanese adults

Ai Shibata, Koichiro Oka, Yoshio Nakamura, Isao Muraoka

Open Access Research

Health-related quality of life of child and adolescent retinoblastoma survivors in the Netherlands

Jennifer van Dijk, Jaap Huisman, Annette C Moll, Antoinette YN Schouten-van Meeteren, Pieter D Bezemer, Peter J Ringens, Peggy T Cohen-Kettenis, Saskia M Imhof

Open Access Research

Validity and reliability of the Spanish version of the DN4 (Douleur Neuropathique 4 questions) questionnaire for differential diagnosis of pain syndromes associated to a neuropathic or somatic component

Concepcion Perez, Rafael Galvez, Silvia Huelbes, Joaquin Insausti, Didier Bouhassira, Silvia Diaz, Javier Rejas

Open Access Research

Measuring the effect of intimate partner violence on health-related quality of life: a qualitative focus group study

Eve Wittenberg, Manisha Joshi, Kristie A Thomas, Laura A McCloskey

Open Access Research

Physical activity as a mediator of the impact of chronic conditions on quality of life in older adults

Richard Sawatzky, Teresa Liu-Ambrose, William C Miller, Carlo A Marra

Open Access Research

Estimation of minimally important differences in EQ-5D utility and VAS scores in cancer

A Simon Pickard, Maureen P Neary, David Cella

Open Access Research

Health-related quality of life of patients following selected types of lumbar spinal surgery: A pilot study

Karen L Saban, Sue M Penckofer, Ida Androwich, Fred B Bryant