Ausgabe 1/2009
Inhalt (106 Artikel)
Cognitive impairment and preferences for current health
Joseph T King Jr, Joel Tsevat, Mark S Roberts
Quality of life in chemical warfare survivors with ophthalmologic injuries: the first results form Iran Chemical Warfare Victims Health Assessment Study
Batool Mousavi, Mohammad Reza Soroush, Ali Montazeri
Cognitive interviewing methodology in the development of a pediatric item bank: a patient reported outcomes measurement information system (PROMIS) study
Debra E Irwin, James W Varni, Karin Yeatts, Darren A DeWalt
Turkish version of impact on family scale: a study of reliability and validity
Nilgun Bek, I Engin Simsek, Suat Erel, Yavuz Yakut, Fatma Uygur
Health-related quality of life for pediatric emergency department febrile illnesses: an Evaluation of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 generic core scales
Rakesh D Mistry, Molly W Stevens, Marc H Gorelick
Psychometric characteristics of the ankylosing spondylitis quality of life questionnaire, short form 36 health survey, and functional assessment of chronic illness therapy-fatigue subscale
Dennis A Revicki, Anne M Rentz, Michelle P Luo, Robert L Wong, Lynda C Doward, Stephen P McKenna
Changes in quality of life among Norwegian school children: a six-month follow-up study
Thomas Jozefiak, Bo Larsson, Lars Wichstrøm
Distress and quality of life characteristics associated with seeking surgical treatment for stress urinary incontinence
Karen M Gil, Amber M Somerville, Sara Cichowski, Jennifer L Savitski
Multinational development of a questionnaire assessing patient satisfaction with anticoagulant treatment: the 'Perception of Anticoagulant Treatment Questionnaire' (PACT-Q©)
Martin H Prins, Alexia Marrel, Paulo Carita, David Anderson, Marie-Germaine Bousser, Harry Crijns, Silla Consoli, Benoit Arnould
Physical activity and quality of life in community dwelling older adults
Siobhan M White, Thomas R Wójcicki, Edward McAuley
Responsiveness of the EQ-5D in breast cancer patients in their first year after treatment
Merel L Kimman, Carmen D Dirksen, Philippe Lambin, Liesbeth J Boersma
Reliability of a 1-week recall period for the Medical Outcomes Study Sleep Scale (MOS-SS) in patients with fibromyalgia
Alesia Sadosky, Ellen Dukes, Chris Evans
Correlations among improvements in urgency urinary incontinence, health-related quality of life, and perception of bladder-related problems in incontinent subjects with overactive bladder treated with tolterodine or placebo
Philip EV Van Kerrebroeck, Con J Kelleher, Karin S Coyne, Zoe Kopp, Marina Brodsky, Joseph T Wang
Measuring health-related quality of life in tuberculosis: a systematic review
Na Guo, Fawziah Marra, Carlo A Marra
Internal construct validity of the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS): a Rasch analysis using data from the Scottish Health Education Population Survey
Sarah Stewart-Brown, Alan Tennant, Ruth Tennant, Stephen Platt, Jane Parkinson, Scott Weich
The Psychosocial Screen for Cancer (PSSCAN): Further validation and normative data
Wolfgang Linden, A Andrea Vodermaier, Regina McKenzie, Maria C Barroetavena, Dahyun Yi, Richard Doll
A randomized trial of a lifestyle intervention in obese endometrial cancer survivors: quality of life outcomes and mediators of behavior change
Vivian E von Gruenigen, Heidi E Gibbons, Mary Beth Kavanagh, Jeffrey W Janata, Edith Lerner, Kerry S Courneya
Co-morbidity and visual acuity are risk factors for health-related quality of life decline: five-month follow-up EQ-5D data of visually impaired older patients
Ruth MA van Nispen, Michiel R de Boer, Janneke GJ Hoeijmakers, Peter J Ringens, Ger HMB van Rens
Additional impact of concomitant hypertension and osteoarthritis on quality of life among patients with type 2 diabetes in primary care in Germany – a cross-sectional survey
Antje Miksch, Katja Hermann, Andreas Rölz, Stefanie Joos, Joachim Szecsenyi, Dominik Ose, Thomas Rosemann
Health-related quality of life in young adults with symptoms of constipation continuing from childhood into adulthood
Marloes EJ Bongers, Marc A Benninga, Heleen Maurice-Stam, Martha A Grootenhuis
Development and psychometric validation of a self-administered questionnaire assessing the acceptance of influenza vaccination: the Vaccinees' Perception of Injection (VAPI©) questionnaire
Catherine Chevat, Muriel Viala-Danten, Carla Dias-Barbosa, Van Hung Nguyen
Factor structure and internal consistency of the 12-item General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) and the Subjective Vitality Scale (VS), and the relationship between them: a study from France
Mareï Salama-Younes, Ali Montazeri, Amany Ismaïl, Charles Roncin
Factors influencing quality of life in Moroccan postmenopausal women with osteoporotic vertebral fracture assessed by ECOS 16 questionnaire
Fatima E Abourazzak, Fadoua Allali, Samira Rostom, Ihsane Hmamouchi, Linda Ichchou, Laila El Mansouri, Loubna Bennani, Hamza Khazzani, Redouane Abouqal, Najia Hajjaj-Hassouni
Construction and validation of a short-form Quality-Of-Life Scale for Chinese Patients with Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia
Yanfang Guo, Jingcheng Shi, Ming Hu, Zhenqiu Sun
The health-related quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and psoriatic arthritis: a comparison with a selected sample of healthy people
Fausto Salaffi, Marina Carotti, Stefania Gasparini, Michele Intorcia, Walter Grassi
Validation of the Clinical COPD Questionnaire (CCQ) in primary care
Björn Ställberg, Mika Nokela, Per-Olof Ehrs, Paul Hjemdal, Eva Wikström Jonsson
Mapping SF-36 onto the EQ-5D index: how reliable is the relationship?
Donna Rowen, John Brazier, Jennifer Roberts
Clinical usefulness of the screen for cognitive impairment in psychiatry (SCIP-S) scale in patients with type I bipolar disorder
Georgina Guilera, Oscar Pino, Juana Gómez-Benito, J Emilio Rojo, Eduard Vieta, Rafael Tabarés-Seisdedos, Nuria Segarra, Anabel Martínez-Arán, Manuel Franco, Manuel J Cuesta, Benedicto Crespo-Facorro, Miguel Bernardo, Scot E Purdon, Teresa Díez, Javier Rejas
Clinical assessment of the physical activity pattern of chronic fatigue syndrome patients: a validation of three methods
Korine Scheeres, Hans Knoop, van der Jos Meer, Gijs Bleijenberg
Scoring and psychometric validation of the Perception of Anticoagulant Treatment Questionnaire (PACT-Q©)
MH Prins, I Guillemin, H Gilet, S Gabriel, B Essers, G Raskob, SR Kahn
Occurrence of post traumatic stress symptoms and their relationship to professional quality of life (ProQoL) in nursing staff at a forensic psychiatric security unit: a cross-sectional study
Christian Lauvrud, Kåre Nonstad, Tom Palmstierna
A psychometric evaluation of the PedsQL™ Family Impact Module in parents of children with sickle cell disease
Julie A Panepinto, Raymond G Hoffmann, Nicholas M Pajewski
Can we derive an 'exchange rate' between descriptive and preference-based outcome measures for stroke? Results from the transfer to utility (TTU) technique
Duncan Mortimer, Leonie Segal, Jonathan Sturm
Retraction Note: Psychometric characteristics of the ankylosing spondylitis quality of life questionnaire, short form 36 health survey, and functional assessment of chronic illness therapy-fatigue subscale
Dennis A Revicki, Anne M Rentz, Michelle P Luo, Robert L Wong, Lynda C Doward, Stephen P McKenna
Population norms and cut-off-points for suboptimal health related quality of life in two generic measures for adolescents: the Spanish VSP-A and KINDL-R
Vicky Serra-Sutton, Montse Ferrer, Luis Rajmil, Cristian Tebé, Marie-Claude Simeoni, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer
Validation of an abbreviated Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM-9) among patients on antihypertensive medications
Murtuza Bharmal, Krista Payne, Mark J Atkinson, Marie-Pierre Desrosiers, Donald E Morisky, Eric Gemmen
Measuring the impact and distress of osteoarthritis from the patients' perspective
Julie F Pallant, Anne-Maree Keenan, Roseanne Misajon, Philip G Conaghan, Alan Tennant
Understanding Ferguson's δ: time to say good-bye?
Berend Terluin, Dirk L Knol, Caroline B Terwee, Henrica CW de Vet
Reduction in patient burdens with graphical computerized adaptive testing on the ADL scale: tool development and simulation
Tsair-Wei Chien, Hing-Man Wu, Weng-Chung Wang, Roberto Vasquez Castillo, Willy Chou
Assessing the empirical validity of alternative multi-attribute utility measures in the maternity context
Stavros Petrou, Jane Morrell, Helen Spiby
Measuring the ICF components of impairment, activity limitation and participation restriction: an item analysis using classical test theory and item response theory
Beth Pollard, Diane Dixon, Paul Dieppe, Marie Johnston
Factor structure of the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in Japanese psychiatric outpatient and student populations
Tomomi Matsudaira, Hiromi Igarashi, Hiroyoshi Kikuchi, Rikihachiro Kano, Hiroshi Mitoma, Kiyoshi Ohuchi, Toshinori Kitamura
Psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the Child Perceptions Questionnaire (CPQ11–14) – short forms
Cíntia S Torres, Saul M Paiva, Miriam P Vale, Isabela A Pordeus, Maria L Ramos-Jorge, Ana C Oliveira, Paul J Allison
The Locomotor Capabilities Index; validity and reliability of the Swedish version in adults with lower limb amputation
Brita Larsson, Anton Johannesson, Ingemar H Andersson, Isam Atroshi
Quality of life in South East Asian patients who consult for dyspepsia: Validation of the short form Nepean Dyspepsia Index
Sanjiv Mahadeva, Hwee-Lin Wee, Khean-Lee Goh, Julian Thumboo
Primary Sjögren's Syndrome: health experiences and predictors of health quality among patients in the United States
Barbara Segal, Simon J Bowman, Philip C Fox, Frederick B Vivino, Nandita Murukutla, Jeff Brodscholl, Sarika Ogale, Lachy McLean
Associations between Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Health-Related Quality of Life
Robert A Sloan, Susumu S Sawada, Corby K Martin, Timothy Church, Steven N Blair
Telephone reliability of the Frenchay Activity Index and EQ-5D amongst older adults
Steven McPhail, Paul Lane, Trevor Russell, Sandra G Brauer, Steven Urry, Jan Jasiewicz, Peter Condie, Terry Haines
Prospective evaluation of chronic pain associated with posterior autologous iliac crest bone graft harvest and its effect on postoperative outcome
Carolyn E Schwartz, Julia F Martha, Paulette Kowalski, David A Wang, Rita Bode, Ling Li, David H Kim
Quality of life of Australian chronically-ill adults: patient and practice characteristics matter
Upali W Jayasinghe, Judith Proudfoot, Christopher A Barton, Cheryl Amoroso, Chris Holton, Gawaine Powell Davies, Justin Beilby, Mark F Harris
Feasibility and acceptance of electronic quality of life assessment in general practice: an implementation study
Anja Rogausch, Jörg Sigle, Anna Seibert, Sabine Thüring, Michael M Kochen, Wolfgang Himmel
Health-related quality of life of Southern Chinese with chronic hepatitis B infection
Elegance TP Lam, Cindy LK Lam, CL Lai, MF Yuen, Daniel YT Fong, Thomas MK So
One-year health-related quality of life outcomes in weight loss trial participants: comparison of three measures
Ronette L Kolotkin, Josephine M Norquist, Ross D Crosby, Shailaja Suryawanshi, Pedro J Teixeira, Steven B Heymsfield, Ngozi Erondu, Allison M Nguyen
Psychometric properties of a single-item scale to assess sleep quality among individuals with fibromyalgia
Joseph C Cappelleri, Andrew G Bushmakin, Anne M McDermott, Alesia B Sadosky, Charles D Petrie, Susan Martin
The psychometric validation of a US English satisfaction measure for patients with benign prostatic hyperplasia and lower urinary tract symptoms
Libby Black, Alyson Grove, Betsy Morrill
Development and preliminary evaluation of a quality of life measure targeted at dementia caregivers
Barbara G Vickrey, Ron D Hays, Michele L Maines, Stefanie D Vassar, Jaime Fitten, Tony Strickland
Investigating the missing data mechanism in quality of life outcomes: a comparison of approaches
Shona Fielding, Peter M Fayers, Craig R Ramsay
Rasch analysis of the Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale (MSIS-29)
Melina Ramp, Fary Khan, Rose Anne Misajon, Julie F Pallant
Reliability and validity of a new scale on internal coherence (ICS) of cancer patients
Matthias Kröz, Arndt Büssing, Hans Broder von Laue, Marcus Reif, Gene Feder, Friedemann Schad, Matthias Girke, Harald Matthes
Impact of gastroesophageal reflux disease on patients' daily lives: a European observational study in the primary care setting
Javier P Gisbert, Alun Cooper, Dimitrios Karagiannis, Jan Hatlebakk, Lars Agréus, Helmut Jablonowski, Javier Zapardiel
Quality of life in Brazilian obese adolescents: effects of a long-term multidisciplinary lifestyle therapy
Mara Cristina Lofrano-Prado, Hanna Karen Moreira Antunes, Wagner Luiz do Prado, Aline de Piano, Danielle Arisa Caranti, Lian Tock, June Carnier, Sergio Tufik, Marco Túlio de Mello, Ana R Dâmaso
The impact of itch symptoms in psoriasis: results from physician interviews and patient focus groups
Denise Globe, Martha S Bayliss, David J Harrison
Measuring patient's expectation and the perception of quality in LASIK services
Deng-Juin Lin, Ing-Cheau Sheu, Jar-Yuan Pai, Alex Bair, Che-Yu Hung, Yuan-Hung Yeh, Ming-Jen Chou
Evaluation of the impact of fibromyalgia on patients' sleep and the content validity of two sleep scales
Susan Martin, Arthi Chandran, Laurie Zografos, Gergana Zlateva
Validity and reliability of a new, short symptom rating scale in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation
Marie Härdén, Britta Nyström, Károly Kulich, Jonas Carlsson, Ann Bengtson, Nils Edvardsson
Psychological wellbeing, physical impairments and rural aging in a developing country setting
Melanie A Abas, Sureeporn Punpuing, Tawanchai Jirapramupitak, Kanchana Tangchonlatip, Morven Leese
Use of medications by people with chronic fatigue syndrome and healthy persons: a population-based study of fatiguing illness in Georgia
Roumiana S Boneva, Jin-Mann S Lin, Elizabeth M Maloney, James F Jones, William C Reeves
The impact of regular physical activity on fatigue, depression and quality of life in persons with multiple sclerosis
Nicole M Stroud, Clare L Minahan
Effect of exacerbations on health status in subjects with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Koichi Nishimura, Susumu Sato, Mitsuhiro Tsukino, Takashi Hajiro, Akihiko Ikeda, Hiroshi Koyama, Toru Oga
Frailty and health related quality of life in older Mexican Americans
Meredith C Masel, James E Graham, Timothy A Reistetter, Kyriakos S Markides, Kenneth J Ottenbacher
Health-related Quality of Life among hospitalized older people awaiting residential aged care
Lynne C Giles, Graeme Hawthorne, Maria Crotty
A predictive model of Health Related Quality of life of parents of chronically ill children: the importance of care-dependency of their child and their support system
Janneke Hatzmann, Heleen Maurice-Stam, Hugo SA Heymans, Martha A Grootenhuis
Dental pain, oral impacts and perceived need for dental treatment in Tanzanian school students: a cross-sectional study
Kijakazi O Mashoto, Anne N Åstrøm, Jamil David, Joyce R Masalu
Testing a model of association between patient identified problems and responses to global measures of health in low back pain patients: a prospective study
Ricky Mullis, Martyn Lewis, Elaine M Hay
Utility of WHOQOL-BREF in measuring quality of life in Sickle Cell Disease
Monika R Asnani, Garth E Lipps, Marvin E Reid
Validation of a short form Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS-21)
Bruce Barrett, Roger L Brown, Marlon P Mundt, Gay R Thomas, Shari K Barlow, Alex D Highstrom, Mozhdeh Bahrainian
Measuring adolescents' HRQoL via self reports and parent proxy reports: an evaluation of the psychometric properties of both versions of the KINDL-R instrument
Michael Erhart, Ute Ellert, Bärbel-Maria Kurth, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer
Health-state utilities in a prisoner population: a cross-sectional survey
Christopher AKY Chong, Sicong Li, Geoffrey C Nguyen, Andrew Sutton, Michael H Levy, Tony Butler, Murray D Krahn, Hla-Hla Thein
Serbian KINDL questionnaire for quality of life assessments in healthy children and adolescents: reproducibility and construct validity
Dejan Stevanovic
Sex differences in the relative contribution of social and clinical factors to the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 measure of health-related quality of life in older home care clients
Colleen J Maxwell, Jian Kang, Jennifer D Walker, Jenny X Zhang, David B Hogan, David H Feeny, Walter P Wodchis
Valuation of transfusion-free living in MDS: results of health utility interviews with patients
Agota Szende, Caroline Schaefer, Thomas F Goss, Kathy Heptinstall, Robert Knight, Michael Lübbert, Barbara Deschler, Pierre Fenaux, Ghulam J Mufti, Sally Killick, Alan F List
Prevalence of multiple chronic conditions in the United States' Medicare population
Kathleen M Schneider, Brian E O'Donnell, Debbie Dean
Understanding and assessing the impact of treatment in diabetes: the Treatment-Related Impact Measures for Diabetes and Devices (TRIM-Diabetes and TRIM-Diabetes Device)
Meryl Brod, Mette Hammer, Torsten Christensen, Suzanne Lessard, Donald M Bushnell
Quality of life in caregivers of patients with schizophrenia: A literature review
Alejandra Caqueo-Urízar, José Gutiérrez-Maldonado, Claudia Miranda-Castillo
Associations between general self-efficacy and health-related quality of life among 12-13-year-old school children: a cross-sectional survey
Lisbeth Gravdal Kvarme, Kristin Haraldstad, Sølvi Helseth, Ragnhild Sørum, Gerd Karin Natvig
Self-efficacy instruments for patients with chronic diseases suffer from methodological limitations - a systematic review
Anja Frei, Anna Svarin, Claudia Steurer-Stey, Milo A Puhan
Do neurooncological patients and their significant others agree on quality of life ratings?
Johannes M Giesinger, Miriam Golser, Astrid Erharter, Georg Kemmler, Gabriele Schauer-Maurer, Guenter Stockhammer, Armin Muigg, Markus Hutterer, Gerhard Rumpold, Bernhard Holzner
The AMC Linear Disability Score (ALDS): a cross-sectional study with a new generic instrument to measure disability applied to patients with peripheral arterial disease
Rosemarie Met, Jim A Reekers, Mark JW Koelemay, Dink A Legemate, Rob J de Haan
Periodontal status, tooth loss and self-reported periodontal problems effects on oral impacts on daily performances, OIDP, in pregnant women in Uganda: a cross-sectional study
Margaret N Wandera, Ingunn M Engebretsen, Charles M Rwenyonyi, James Tumwine, Anne N Åstrøm
Impact of gastroesophageal reflux disease on work absenteeism, presenteeism and productivity in daily life: a European observational study
Javier P Gisbert, Alun Cooper, Dimitrios Karagiannis, Jan Hatlebakk, Lars Agréus, Helmut Jablonowski, Javier Nuevo
Fear of hypoglycaemia: defining a minimum clinically important difference in patients with type 2 diabetes
Tom Stargardt, Linda Gonder-Frederick, Karl J Krobot, Charles M Alexander
Measuring disease-specific quality of life in rare populations: a practical approach to cross-cultural translation
Victoria E Price, Robert J Klaassen, Paula HB Bolton-Maggs, John D Grainger, Christine Curtis, Cindy Wakefield, Gustavo Dufort, Arne Riedlinger, Christophe Soltner, Victor S Blanchette, Nancy L Young
Comparing the content of participation instruments using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
Vanessa K Noonan, Jacek A Kopec, Luc Noreau, Joel Singer, Anna Chan, Louise C Mâsse, Marcel F Dvorak
Urinary and sexual outcomes in long-term (5+ years) prostate cancer disease free survivors after radical prostatectomy
Mauro Gacci, Alchiede Simonato, Lorenzo Masieri, John L Gore, Michele Lanciotti, Annalisa Mantella, Mario Alberto Rossetti, Sergio Serni, Virginia Varca, Andrea Romagnoli, Carlo Ambruosi, Fabio Venzano, Marco Esposito, Tomaso Montanaro, Giorgio Carmignani, Marco Carini
Social and dental status along the life course and oral health impacts in adolescents: a population-based birth cohort
Karen G Peres, Marco A Peres, Cora LP Araujo, Ana MB Menezes, Pedro C Hallal
Relationship between the EQ-5D index and measures of clinical outcomes in selected studies of cardiovascular interventions
Kimberley A Goldsmith, Matthew T Dyer, Peter M Schofield, Martin J Buxton, Linda D Sharples
Health-related quality of life in children with cystic fibrosis: validation of the German CFQ-R
Anne Schmidt, Kerstin Wenninger, Nadja Niemann, Ulrich Wahn, Doris Staab
Development and psychometric assessment of the COPD and Asthma Sleep Impact Scale (CASIS)
Robin F Pokrzywinski, David M Meads, Stephen P McKenna, G Alistair Glendenning, Dennis A Revicki
Cardiac rehabilitation in Austria: long term health-related quality of life outcomes
Stefan Höfer, Werner Kullich, Ursula Graninger, Manfred Wonisch, Alfred Gaßner, Martin Klicpera, Herbert Laimer, Christiane Marko, Helmut Schwann, Rudolf Müller
Adolescents' wellbeing and functioning: relationships with parents' subjective general physical and mental health
George Giannakopoulos, Christine Dimitrakaki, Xanthi Pedeli, Gerasimos Kolaitis, Vasiliki Rotsika, Ulricke Ravens-Sieberer, Yannis Tountas
Measurement properties of the Dizziness Handicap Inventory by cross-sectional and longitudinal designs
Anne-Lise Tamber, Kjersti T Wilhelmsen, Liv Inger Strand
Quality of life data as prognostic indicators of survival in cancer patients: an overview of the literature from 1982 to 2008
Ali Montazeri
Effect on Health-related Quality of Life of changes in mental health in children and adolescents
Luis Rajmil, Jorge A Palacio-Vieira, Michael Herdman, Sílvia López-Aguilà, Ester Villalonga-Olives, Josep M Valderas, Mireia Espallargues, Jordi Alonso
Validation of a Chinese version of disease specific quality of life scale (HFS-36) for hemifacial spasm in Taiwan
Yen-Chu Huang, Jun-Yu Fan, Long-Sun Ro, Rong-Kuo Lyu, Hong-Shiu Chang, Sien-Tsong Chen, Wen-Chuin Hsu, Chiung-Mei Chen, Yih-Ru Wu
Tuberculosis and HIV co-infection: its impact on quality of life
Amare Deribew, Markos Tesfaye, Yohannes Hailmichael, Nebiyu Negussu, Shallo Daba, Ajeme Wogi, Tefera Belachew, Ludwig Apers, Robert Colebunders
Doubtful outcome of the validation of the Rome II questionnaire: validation of a symptom based diagnostic tool
Herdis KM Molinder, Lars Kjellström, Henry BO Nylin, Lars E Agréus