Ausgabe 1/2010
Inhalt (152 Artikel)
The differential mediating effects of pain and depression on the physical and mental dimension of quality of life in Hong Kong Chinese adults
Wing S Wong, Simon TM Chan, Vivian BK Fung, Richard Fielding
Development of a self-reporting tool to obtain a Combined Index of Severity of Fibromyalgia (ICAF*)
Miguel A Vallejo, Javier Rivera, Joaquim Esteve-Vives
Does quality of life among breast cancer survivors one year after diagnosis differ depending on urban and non-urban residence? A comparative study
Tracey DiSipio, Sandi C Hayes, Beth Newman, Joanne Aitken, Monika Janda
Erratum to: Estimation of minimally important differences in EQ-5D utility and VAS scores in cancer
A Simon Pickard, Maureen P Neary, David Cella
How does asthma influence the daily life of children? Results of focus group interviews
Lisette van den Bemt, Sabine Kooijman, Vinca Linssen, Peter Lucassen, Jean Muris, Gordon Slabbers, Tjard Schermer
Measuring health-related quality of life in tuberculosis: a systemic review - Response
Stephen E Weis, Jotam G Pasipanodya
Cultural adaptation into Spanish of the generalized anxiety disorder-7 (GAD-7) scale as a screening tool
Javier García-Campayo, Enric Zamorano, Miguel A Ruiz, Antonio Pardo, María Pérez-Páramo, Vanessa López-Gómez, Olga Freire, Javier Rejas
Type D personality in the general population: a systematic review of health status, mechanisms of disease, and work-related problems
Floortje Mols, Johan Denollet
Validation of a core outcome measure for palliative care in Africa: the APCA African Palliative Outcome Scale
Richard Harding, Lucy Selman, Godfrey Agupio, Natalya Dinat, Julia Downing, Liz Gwyther, Thandi Mashao, Keletso Mmoledi, Tony Moll, Lydia Mpanga Sebuyira, Barbara Panjatovic, Irene J Higginson
Health-related Quality of Life in Vacuum-Assisted Breast Biopsy: short-term effects, long-term effects and predictors
Philip J Domeyer, Theodoros N Sergentanis, Flora Zagouri, George C Zografos
A review of health utilities across conditions common in paediatric and adult populations
Jean-Eric Tarride, Natasha Burke, Matthias Bischof, Robert B Hopkins, Linda Goeree, Kaitryn Campbell, Feng Xie, Daria O'Reilly, Ron Goeree
A review of health utilities using the EQ-5D in studies of cardiovascular disease
Matthew TD Dyer, Kimberley A Goldsmith, Linda S Sharples, Martin J Buxton
Measuring health-related quality of life in Hungarian children with heart disease: psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the Cardiac Module
Andrea Berkes, István Pataki, Mariann Kiss, Csilla Kemény, László Kardos, James W Varni, Gábor Mogyorósy
Association of physical fitness with health-related quality of life in Finnish young men
Arja Häkkinen, Marjo Rinne, Tommi Vasankari, Matti Santtila, Keijo Häkkinen, Heikki Kyröläinen
Identifying type and determinants of missing items in quality of life questionnaires: Application to the SF-36 French version of the 2003 Decennial Health Survey
Hugo Peyre, Joël Coste, Alain Leplège
Self-reported physical and mental health status and quality of life in adolescents: a latent variable mediation model
Richard Sawatzky, Pamela A Ratner, Joy L Johnson, Jacek A Kopec, Bruno D Zumbo
Health-related quality of life in diabetes: The associations of complications with EQ-5D scores
Oddvar Solli, Knut Stavem, IS Kristiansen
Development and validation of the Treatment Related Impact Measure of Weight (TRIM-Weight)
Meryl Brod, Mette Hammer, Nana Kragh, Suzanne Lessard, Donald M Bushnell
Quality of care and health-related quality of life of climacteric stage women cared for in family medicine clinics in Mexico
Svetlana Vladislavovna Doubova Dubova, Sergio Flores-Hernández, Leticia Rodriguez-Aguilar, Ricardo Pérez-Cuevas
Exploring the validity of estimating EQ-5D and SF-6D utility values from the health assessment questionnaire in patients with inflammatory arthritis
Mark J Harrison, Mark Lunt, Suzanne MM Verstappen, Kath D Watson, Nick J Bansback, Deborah PM Symmons
Development of a patient reported outcome scale for fatigue in multiple sclerosis: The Neurological Fatigue Index (NFI-MS)
Roger J Mills, Carolyn A Young, Julie F Pallant, Alan Tennant
Using qualitative methods to inform the trade-off between content validity and consistency in utility assessment: the example of type 2 diabetes and Alzheimer's Disease
Clare Mcgrath, Diana Rofail, Elizabeth Gargon, Linda Abetz
Dimensional structure of the oral health-related quality of life in healthy Spanish workers
Javier Montero, Manuel Bravo, María-Purificación Vicente, María-Purificación Galindo, Joaquín F López, Alberto Albaladejo
Measuring the psychosocial health of adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors: a critical review
Tara Clinton-McHarg, Mariko Carey, Rob Sanson-Fisher, Anthony Shakeshaft, Kathy Rainbird
An instrument to assess quality of life in relation to nutrition: item generation, item reduction and initial validation
Holger J Schünemann, Francesca Sperati, Maddalena Barba, Nancy Santesso, Camilla Melegari, Elie A Akl, Gordon Guyatt, Paola Muti
Evaluation of internal reliability in the presence of inconsistent responses
Daniel YT Fong, S Y Ho, T H Lam
Preferences for health outcomes associated with Group A Streptococcal disease and vaccination
Grace M Lee, Joshua A Salomon, Charlene Gay, James K Hammitt
Use of rasch methodology to develop a short version of the Health Related Quality of life for Eating Disorders questionnaire: a prospective study
Carlota Las Hayas, Jose M Quintana, Jesús A Padierna, Amaia Bilbao, Pedro Muñoz
Quality of life measurement in women with cervical cancer: implications for Chinese cervical cancer survivors
Ying Chun Zeng, Shirley SY Ching, Alice Y Loke
Psychometric evaluation of a radio electric auricular treatment for stress related disorders: a double-blinded, placebo-controlled controlled pilot study
Salvatore Rinaldi, Vania Fontani, Lucia Aravagli, Piero Mannu
Psychometric properties of an instrument for assessing the experience of patients treated with inhaled insulin: the Inhaled Insulin Treatment Questionnaire (IITQ)
Richard R Rubin, Mark Peyrot
Vision-related quality of life in first stroke patients with homonymous visual field defects
Carolin Gall, Gabriele H Franke, Bernhard A Sabel
Self-reported halitosis and emotional state: impact on oral conditions and treatments
Salvatore Settineri, Carmela Mento, Simona C Gugliotta, Ambra Saitta, Antonella Terranova, Giuseppe Trimarchi, Domenico Mallamace
Effects of mode of administration (MOA) on the measurement properties of the EORTC QLQ-C30: a randomized study
Chad M Gundy, Neil K Aaronson
Health-related quality of life in overweight and obese youths: Results of a multicenter study
Nora Wille, Monika Bullinger, Reinhard Holl, Ulrike Hoffmeister, Reinhard Mann, Cornelia Goldapp, Thomas Reinehr, Joachim Westenhöfer, Andreas Egmond-Froehlich, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer
Veaselaircdhation of the Spanish version of the Chronic Pain Acceptance Questionnaire (CPAQ) for the assessment of acceptance in fibromyalgia
Baltasar Rodero, Javier García-Campayo, Benigno Casanueva, Yolanda Lopez del Hoyo, Antoni Serrano-Blanco, Juan V Luciano
Development of the Japanese version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ Brain Tumor Module
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
Health-related quality of life in patients with severe COPD hospitalized for exacerbations - comparing EQ-5D, SF-12 and SGRQ
Petra Menn, Norbert Weber, Rolf Holle
Quality of life in colon cancer patients with skin side effects: preliminary results from a monocentric cross sectional study
Federica Andreis, Anna Rizzi, Paola Mosconi, Claudia Braun, Luigina Rota, Fausto Meriggi, Maria Mazzocchi, Alberto Zaniboni
Functioning and health in patients with cancer on home-parenteral nutrition: a qualitative study
Martin Mueller, Stefanie Lohmann, Paul Thul, Arved Weimann, Eva Grill
Comparison of numerical and verbal rating scales to measure pain exacerbations in patients with chronic cancer pain
Cinzia Brunelli, Ernesto Zecca, Cinzia Martini, Tiziana Campa, Elena Fagnoni, Michela Bagnasco, Luigi Lanata, Augusto Caraceni
Physicians' knowledge of health-related quality of life and perception of its importance in daily clinical practice
Maurizio Bossola, Rita Murri, Graziano Onder, Adriana Turriziani, Massimo Fantoni, Luca Padua
Changes in the SF-8 scores among healthy non-smoking school teachers after the enforcement of a smoke-free school policy: a comparison by passive smoke status
Kosuke Kiyohara, Yuri Itani, Takashi Kawamura, Yoshitaka Matsumoto, Yuko Takahashi
A Rasch and confirmatory factor analysis of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) - 12
Adam B Smith, Lesley J Fallowfield, Dan P Stark, Galina Velikova, Valerie Jenkins
TMD pain: the effect on health related quality of life and the influence of pain duration
Geerten-Has E Tjakkes, Jan-Jaap Reinders, Elisabeth M Tenvergert, Boudewijn Stegenga
Validity and responsiveness of the EQ-5D in assessing and valuing health status in patients with anxiety disorders
Hans-Helmut König, Anja Born, Oliver Günther, Herbert Matschinger, Sven Heinrich, Steffi G Riedel-Heller, Matthias C Angermeyer, Christiane Roick
Effect of neck strength training on health-related quality of life in females with chronic neck pain: a randomized controlled 1-year follow-up study
Petri K Salo, Arja H Häkkinen, Hannu Kautiainen, Jari J Ylinen
The health loss from ischemic stroke and intracerebral hemorrhage: evidence from the North East Melbourne Stroke Incidence Study (NEMESIS)
Dominique A Cadilhac, Helen M Dewey, Theo Vos, Rob Carter, Amanda G Thrift
Population preference values for treatment outcomes in chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: a cross-sectional utility study
Kathleen M Beusterien, John Davies, Michael Leach, David Meiklejohn, Jessica L Grinspan, Alison O'Toole, Steve Bramham-Jones
Validation of the "World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule, WHODAS-2" in patients with chronic diseases
Olatz Garin, Jose Luis Ayuso-Mateos, Josué Almansa, Marta Nieto, Somnath Chatterji, Gemma Vilagut, Jordi Alonso, Alarcos Cieza, Olga Svetskova, Helena Burger, Vittorio Racca, Carlo Francescutti, Eduard Vieta, Nenad Kostanjsek, Alberto Raggi, Matilde Leonardi, Montse Ferrer
Anxiety and depression in association with morbid obesity: changes with improved physical health after duodenal switch
John Roger Andersen, Anny Aasprang, Per Bergsholm, Nils Sletteskog, Villy Våge, Gerd Karin Natvig
Health related quality of life after extremely preterm birth: a matched controlled cohort study
Bente J Vederhus, Trond Markestad, Geir E Eide, Marit Graue, Thomas Halvorsen
Mapping of the EQ-5D index from clinical outcome measures and demographic variables in patients with coronary heart disease
Kimberley A Goldsmith, Matthew T Dyer, Martin J Buxton, Linda D Sharples
Disability status and quality of life in multiple sclerosis: non-linearity of the Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS)
Sabine Twork, Susanne Wiesmeth, Milena Spindler, Markus Wirtz, Sabine Schipper, Dieter Pöhlau, Jörg Klewer, Joachim Kugler
Dimensions and correlates of quality of life according to frailty status: a cross-sectional study on community-dwelling older adults referred to an outpatient geriatric service in Italy
Claudio Bilotta, Ann Bowling, Alessandra Casè, Paola Nicolini, Sabrina Mauri, Manuela Castelli, Carlo Vergani
Psychometric evaluation of a visual analog scale for the assessment of anxiety
Valerie SL Williams, Robert J Morlock, Douglas Feltner
Low Sense of Coherence (SOC) is a mirror of general anxiety and persistent depressive symptoms in adolescent girls - a cross-sectional study of a clinical and a non-clinical cohort
Eva C Henje Blom, Eva Serlachius, Jan-Olov Larsson, Töres Theorell, Martin Ingvar
Health-Related Quality of Life after Ischemic Stroke: The Impact of Pharmaceutical Interventions on Drug Therapy (Pharmaceutical Care Concept)
Carina Hohmann, Roland Radziwill, Juergen M Klotz, Andreas H Jacobs
Patient-recorded outcome to assess therapeutic efficacy in protoporphyria-induced dermal phototoxicity: a proposal
Elisabeth I Minder, Xiaoye Schneider-Yin, Christoph E Minder
Interpretation of response categories in patient-reported rating scales: a controlled study among people with Parkinson's disease
Ida Knutsson, Helena Rydström, Jan Reimer, Per Nyberg, Peter Hagell
Prevalence of chronic complications of type 2 diabetes mellitus in outpatients - a cross-sectional hospital based survey in urban China
Zhaolan Liu, Chaowei Fu, Weibing Wang, Biao Xu
Quality of life of adolescents with cancer: family risks and resources
Lamia P Barakat, Paige L Marmer, Lisa A Schwartz
The development and validation of the daily electronic Endometriosis Pain and Bleeding Diary
Linda S Deal, Dana Britt DiBenedetti, Valerie SL Williams, Sheri E Fehnel
Response shift, recall bias and their effect on measuring change in health-related quality of life amongst older hospital patients
Steven McPhail, Terry Haines
Coping flexibility in college students with depressive symptoms
Ji-Gang Zong, Xiao-Yan Cao, Yuan Cao, Yan-Fang Shi, Yu-Na Wang, Chao Yan, John RZ Abela, Yi-Qun Gan, Qi-Yong Gong, Raymond CK Chan
The well-being and treatment satisfaction of diabetic patients in primary care
Esra Saatci, Gulruh Tahmiscioglu, Nafiz Bozdemir, Ersin Akpinar, Sevgi Ozcan, Hatice Kurdak
Reliability of 95% confidence interval revealed by expected quality-of-life scores: an example of nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients after radiotherapy using EORTC QLQ-C 30
Tsair-Wei Chien, Shun-Jin Lin, Wen-Chung Wang, Henry WC Leung, Wen-Pin Lai, Agnes LF Chan
A 'short walk' is longer before radiotherapy than afterwards: a qualitative study questioning the baseline and follow-up design
Elsbeth F Taminiau-Bloem, Florence J van Zuuren, Margot A Koeneman, Bruce D Rapkin, Mechteld RM Visser, Caro CE Koning, Mirjam AG Sprangers
Correlates of institutionalized senior veterans' quality of life in Taiwan
Hsiao-Ting Chang, Li-Fan Liu, Chun-Ku Chen, Shinn-Jang Hwang, Liang-Kung Chen, Feng-Hwa Lu
Impact of recent life events on the health related quality of life of adolescents and youths: the role of gender and life events typologies in a follow-up study
Ester Villalonga-Olives, Sonia Rojas-Farreras, Gemma Vilagut, Jorge A Palacio-Vieira, José Maria Valderas, Michael Herdman, Montserrat Ferrer, Luís Rajmil, Jordi Alonso
How do children at special schools and their parents perceive their HRQoL compared to children at open schools?
Jennifer Jelsma, Lebogang Ramma
Do urinary tract infections affect morale among very old women?
Irene Eriksson, Yngve Gustafson, Lisbeth Fagerström, Birgitta Olofsson
The effect of peer-led education on the life quality of mastectomy patients referred to breast cancer-clinics in Shiraz, Iran 2009
Farkhondeh Sharif, Narjes Abshorshori, Sedigheh Tahmasebi, Maryam Hazrati, Najaf Zare, Sarah Masoumi
Quality of life of children and their caregivers during an AOM episode: development and use of a telephone questionnaire
Eve Dubé, Philippe De Wals, Manale Ouakki
Emerging evidence-based physical rehabilitation for Multiple Sclerosis - Towards an inventory of current content across Europe
Kamila Rasova, Peter Feys, Thomas Henze, Hans van Tongeren, Davide Cattaneo, Johanna Jonsdottir, Alena Herbenova
Development of the ATAQ-IPF: a tool to assess quality of life in IPF
Jeffrey J Swigris, Sandra R Wilson, Kathy E Green, David B Sprunger, Kevin K Brown, Frederick S Wamboldt
Reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the Child Health and Illness Profile (CHIP) Child-Edition, Parent Report Form (CHIP-CE/PRF)
Maria-Dolors Estrada, Luis Rajmil, Vicky Serra-Sutton, Cristian Tebé, Jordi Alonso, Michael Herdman, Anne W Riley, Christopher B Forrest, Barbara Starfield
Minimal important differences and response shift in health-related quality of life; a longitudinal study in patients with multiple myeloma
Ann K Kvam, Finn Wisløff, Peter M Fayers
Daily physical activity and its contribution to the health-related quality of life of ambulatory individuals with chronic stroke
Debbie Rand, Janice J Eng, Pei-Fang Tang, Chihya Hung, Jiann-Shing Jeng
Differential item functioning (DIF) analyses of health-related quality of life instruments using logistic regression
Neil W Scott, Peter M Fayers, Neil K Aaronson, Andrew Bottomley, Alexander de Graeff, Mogens Groenvold, Chad Gundy, Michael Koller, Morten A Petersen, Mirjam AG Sprangers
Validation study of a web-based assessment of functional recovery after radical prostatectomy
Andrew J Vickers, Caroline J Savage, Marwan Shouery, James A Eastham, Peter T Scardino, Ethan M Basch
Responsiveness of the Eating Disorders Quality of Life Scale (EDQLS) in a longitudinal multi-site sample
Carol E Adair, Gisele C Marcoux, Theanna F Bischoff, Brian S Cram, Carol J Ewashen, Jorge Pinzon, Joanne L Gusella, Josie Geller, Yvette Scattolon, Patricia Fergusson, Lisa Styles, Krista E Brown
Association of measured physical performance and demographic and health characteristics with self-reported physical function: implications for the interpretation of self-reported limitations
Grant H Louie, Michael M Ward
Psychometric validation of the Dutch translation of the quality of life in reflux and dyspepsia (QOLRAD) questionnaire in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease
Leopold GJB Engels, Elly C Klinkenberg-Knol, Jonas Carlsson, Katarina Halling
Association of hypoglycemic symptoms with patients' rating of their health-related quality of life state: a cross sectional study
Fernando Alvarez-Guisasola, Donald D Yin, Gonzalo Nocea, Ying Qiu, Panagiotis Mavros
Evaluation of health outcomes in osteoarthritis patients after total knee replacement: a two-year follow-up
Feng Xie, Ngai-Nung Lo, Eleanor M Pullenayegum, Jean-Eric Tarride, Daria J O'Reilly, Ron Goeree, Hin-Peng Lee
How do existing HIV-specific instruments measure up? Evaluating the ability of instruments to describe disability experienced by adults living with HIV
Kelly K O'Brien, Ahmed M Bayoumi, Carol Strike, Nancy L Young, Kenneth King, Aileen M Davis
Patient reported outcomes: looking beyond the label claim
Lynda C Doward, Ari Gnanasakthy, Mary G Baker
Clinical and psychological correlates of health-related quality of life in obese patients
Edoardo Mannucci, Maria L Petroni, Nicola Villanova, Carlo M Rotella, Giovanni Apolone, Giulio Marchesini
Health-Related Quality of Life in Parkinson disease: Correlation between Health Utilities Index III and Unified Parkinson's Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) in U.S. male veterans
Galit Kleiner-Fisman, Matthew B Stern, David N Fisman
Upper-body morbidity following breast cancer treatment is common, may persist longer-term and adversely influences quality of life
Sandra C Hayes, Sheree Rye, Diana Battistutta, Tracey DiSipio, Beth Newman
Feasibility, reliability and validity of health-related quality of life questionnaire among adult pulmonary tuberculosis patients in urban Uganda: cross-sectional study
Harriet M Babikako, Duncan Neuhauser, Achilles Katamba, Ezekiel Mupere
Cross-cultural validity of four quality of life scales in persons with spinal cord injury
Szilvia Geyh, Bernd AG Fellinghauer, Inge Kirchberger, Marcel WM Post
Depression as a predictor of work resumption following myocardial infarction (MI): a review of recent research evidence
Adrienne O'Neil, Kristy Sanderson, Brian Oldenburg
Uncontrolled asthma: assessing quality of life and productivity of children and their caregivers using a cross-sectional Internet-based survey
Bonnie B Dean, Brian C Calimlim, Patricia Sacco, Daniel Aguilar, Robert Maykut, David Tinkelman
The psychological burden of an initially unexplained illness: patients with sternocostoclavicular hyperostosis before and after delayed diagnosis
Willem A van der Kloot, Neveen AT Hamdy, Laurian CS Hafkemeijer, Femke MC den Dulk, Sadhna A Chotkan, Arnold AP van Emmerik, Ad A Kaptein
Patient- and provider-related determinants of generic and specific health-related quality of life of patients with chronic systolic heart failure in primary care: a cross-sectional study
Frank Peters-Klimm, Cornelia U Kunz, Gunter Laux, Joachim Szecsenyi, Thomas Müller-Tasch
Correlation between adherence rates measured by MEMS and self-reported questionnaires: a meta-analysis
Lizheng Shi, Jinan Liu, Vivian Fonseca, Philip Walker, Anupama Kalsekar, Manjiri Pawaskar
Personality and the physician-patient relationship as predictors of quality of life of cardiac patients after rehabilitation
Erik Farin, Milena Meder
Decreased health-related quality of life in disease-free survivors of differentiated thyroid cancer in Korea
Ji In Lee, Soo Hyun Kim, Alice H Tan, Hee Kyung Kim, Hye Won Jang, Kyu Yeon Hur, Jae Hyeon Kim, Kwang-Won Kim, Jae Hoon Chung, Sun Wook Kim
Detecting exacerbations using the Clinical COPD Questionnaire
Jaap CA Trappenburg, Irene Touwen, Gerdien H de Weert-van Oene, Jean Bourbeau, Evelyn M Monninkhof, Theo JM Verheij, Jan-Willem J Lammers, Augustinus JP Schrijvers
Health-related quality of life before planned admission to intensive care: memory over three and six months
Maurizia Capuzzo, Sara Bertacchini, Elena Davanzo, Giovanna Felisatti, Laura Paparella, Laura Tadini, Raffaele Alvisi
Health care providers underestimate symptom intensities of cancer patients: A multicenter European study
Eivor A Laugsand, Mirjam AG Sprangers, Kristin Bjordal, Frank Skorpen, Stein Kaasa, Pål Klepstad
Validation of the Rasch-based Depression Screening in a large scale German general population sample
Thomas Forkmann, Maren Boecker, Markus Wirtz, Heide Glaesmer, Elmar Brähler, Christine Norra, Siegfried Gauggel
The ChQoL questionnaire: an Italian translation with preliminary psychometric results for female oncological patients
Giovanni Aschero, Flavio Fenoglio, Maria Giuseppina Vidili, Andrea Wussler
Respiratory symptoms in adults are related to impaired quality of life, regardless of asthma and COPD: results from the European community respiratory health survey
Marianne Voll-Aanerud, Tomas ML Eagan, Estel Plana, Ernst R Omenaas, Per S Bakke, Cecilie Svanes, Valerie Siroux, Isabelle Pin, Josep M Antó, Benedicte Leynaert
Factors affecting the relationship between psychological status and quality of life in COPD patients
Eva Balcells, Joaquim Gea, Jaume Ferrer, Ignasi Serra, Mauricio Orozco-Levi, Jordi de Batlle, Esther Rodriguez, Marta Benet, David Donaire-González, Josep M Antó, Judith Garcia-Aymerich
Psychometric properties of the DISABKIDS Chronic Generic Module (DCGM-37) when used in children undergoing treatment for cancer
Margareta af Sandeberg, Eva M Johansson, Peter Hagell, Lena Wettergren
The construct validity of the health utilities index mark 3 in assessing health status in lung transplantation
Maria-Jose Santana, David Feeny, Sunita Ghosh, Ronald G Nador, Justin Weinkauf, Kathleen Jackson, Marianne Schafenacker, Dalyce Zuk, Grace Hubert, Dale Lien
Valuation of scleroderma and psoriatic arthritis health states by the general public
Dinesh Khanna, Tracy Frech, Puja P Khanna, Robert M Kaplan, Mark H Eckman, Ron D Hays, Shaari S Ginsburg, Anthony C Leonard, Joel Tsevat
Barriers towards insulin therapy in type 2 diabetic patients: results of an observational longitudinal study
Norbert Hermanns, Marina Mahr, Bernd Kulzer, Sören E Skovlund, Thomas Haak
Association between treated/untreated traumatic dental injuries and impact on quality of life of Brazilian schoolchildren
Cristiane B Bendo, Saul M Paiva, Cíntia S Torres, Ana C Oliveira, Daniela Goursand, Isabela A Pordeus, Miriam P Vale
Evaluation of the late life disability instrument in the lifestyle interventions and independence for elders pilot (LIFE-P) study
Fang-Chi Hsu, W Jack Rejeski, Edward H Ip, Jeff A Katula, Roger Fielding, Alan M Jette, Stephanie A Studenski, Steven N Blair, Michael E Miller
Improving the interpretation of quality of life evidence in meta-analyses: the application of minimal important difference units
Bradley C Johnston, Kristian Thorlund, Holger J Schünemann, Feng Xie, Mohammad Hassan Murad, Victor M Montori, Gordon H Guyatt
Interpreting scores on multiple sclerosis-specific patient reported outcome measures (the PRIMUS and U-FIS)
James Twiss, Lynda C Doward, Stephen P McKenna, Benjamin Eckert
Association between perceived chewing ability and oral health-related quality of life in partially dentate patients
Mika Inukai, Mike T John, Yoshimasa Igarashi, Kazuyoshi Baba
Study of quality of life and its determinants in patients after urinary stone fragmentation
Mostafa A Arafa, Danny M Rabah
Measurement invariance of the kidney disease and quality of life instrument (KDQOL-SF) across Veterans and non-Veterans
Karen L Saban, Fred B Bryant, Domenic J Reda, Kevin T Stroupe, Denise M Hynes
Double disadvantage: a case control study on health-related quality of life in children with sickle cell disease
Channa T Hijmans, Karin Fijnvandraat, Jaap Oosterlaan, Harriët Heijboer, Marjolein Peters, Martha A Grootenhuis
Assessment of Chronic Illness Care with the German version of the ACIC in different primary care settings in Switzerland
Claudia Steurer-Stey, Anja Frei, Gabriela Schmid-Mohler, Sibylle Malcolm-Kohler, Marco Zoller, Thomas Rosemann
A reliable measure of frailty for a community dwelling older population
Shahrul Kamaruzzaman, George B Ploubidis, Astrid Fletcher, Shah Ebrahim
Factors associated with psychological and behavioral functioning in people with type 2 diabetes living in France
Stephanie Boini, Marie-Line Erpelding, Anne Fagot-Campagna, Mounir Mesbah, Judith Chwalow, Alfred Penfornis, Vincent Coliche, Etienne Mollet, Keith Meadows, Serge Briançon
Preferences of diabetes patients and physicians: A feasibility study to identify the key indicators for appraisal of health care values
Franz Porzsolt, Johannes Clouth, Marc Deutschmann, Hans-J Hippler
Tooth loss and oral health-related quality of life: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Anneloes E Gerritsen, P Finbarr Allen, Dick J Witter, Ewald M Bronkhorst, Nico HJ Creugers
Development and validation of a questionnaire on 'Satisfaction with dermatological treatment of hand eczema' (DermaSat)
Miguel A Ruiz, Felipe Heras, Agusti Alomar, Luis Conde-Salazar, Jesús de la Cuadra, Esther Serra, Francisco Regalado, Ralf Halbach
Impact of gastroesophageal reflux disease on daily life: the Systematic Investigation of Gastrointestinal Diseases in China (SILC) epidemiological study
Rui Wang, Duowu Zou, Xiuqiang Ma, Yanfang Zhao, Xiaoyan Yan, Hong Yan, Jiqian Fang, Ping Yin, Xiaoping Kang, Qiang Li, John Dent, Joseph J Sung, Katarina Halling, Saga Johansson, Wenbin Liu, Jia He
Quality of life and life circumstances in German myasthenia gravis patients
Sabine Twork, Susanne Wiesmeth, Jörg Klewer, Dieter Pöhlau, Joachim Kugler
Effect of adaptive abilities on utilities, direct or mediated by mental health?
Yvette Peeters, Adelita V Ranchor, Thea PM Vliet Vlieland, Anne M Stiggelbout
Measurement properties of the benign prostatic hyperplasia impact index in tadalafil studies
Mallik Angalakuditi, Rita F Seifert, Risa P Hayes, Michael P O'Leary, Lars Viktrup
Unmet needs, quality of life and support networks of people with dementia living at home
Claudia Miranda-Castillo, Bob Woods, Kumari Galboda, Sabu Oomman, Charles Olojugba, Martin Orrell
Health-related quality of life in relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis patients during treatment with glatiramer acetate: a prospective, observational, international, multi-centre study
Peter J Jongen, Dirk Lehnick, Evert Sanders, Pierette Seeldrayers, Sten Fredrikson, Magnus Andersson, Joachim Speck
Health-related quality of life in a clinical sample of obese children and adolescents
Afsane Riazi, Sania Shakoor, Isobel Dundas, Christine Eiser, Sheila A McKenzie
Health status in routine clinical practice: validity of the clinical COPD questionnaire at the individual patient level
Janwillem WH Kocks, Huib AM Kerstjens, Sandra L Snijders, Barbara de Vos, Jacqueline J Biermann, Peter van Hengel, Jaap H Strijbos, Henk EP Bosveld, Thys van der Molen
Quality of Life as reported by children and parents: a comparison between students and child psychiatric outpatients
Thomas Jozefiak, Bo Larsson, Lars Wichstrøm, Jan Wallander, Fritz Mattejat
The effect of post-discharge educational intervention on patients in achieving objectives in modifiable risk factors six months after discharge following an episode of acute coronary syndrome, (CAM-2 Project): a randomized controlled trial
Javier Muñiz, Juan J Gómez-Doblas, María I Santiago-Pérez, Iñaki Lekuona-Goya, Nekane Murga-Eizagaetxebarría, Eduardo de Teresa-Galván ß, José M Cruz-Fernández, Alfonso Castro-Beiras
Defining a minimal clinically important difference for endometriosis-associated pelvic pain measured on a visual analog scale: analyses of two placebo-controlled, randomized trials
Christoph Gerlinger, Ulrike Schumacher, Thomas Faustmann, Antje Colligs, Heinz Schmitz, Christian Seitz
Content comparison of haemophilia specific patient-rated outcome measures with the international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF, ICF-CY)
Silvia Riva, Monika Bullinger, Edda Amann, Sylvia von Mackensen
Patient-reported outcomes as predictors of 10-year survival in women after acute myocardial infarction
Tone M Norekvål, Bengt Fridlund, Berit Rokne, Leidulf Segadal, Tore Wentzel-Larsen, Jan Erik Nordrehaug
Mapping onto Eq-5 D for patients in poor health
Matthijs M Versteegh, Donna Rowen, John E Brazier, Elly A Stolk
The cross-sectional associations between sense of coherence and diabetic microvascular complications, glycaemic control, and patients' conceptions of type 1 diabetes
Aila J Ahola, Markku Saraheimo, Carol Forsblom, Kustaa Hietala, Per-Henrik Groop
Health status of the advanced elderly in six european countries: results from a representative survey using EQ-5D and SF-12
Hans-Helmut König, Dirk Heider, Thomas Lehnert, Steffi G Riedel-Heller, Matthias C Angermeyer, Herbert Matschinger, Gemma Vilagut, Ronny Bruffaerts, Josep M Haro, Giovanni de Girolamo, Ron de Graaf, Viviane Kovess, Jordi Alonso
Patient-reported outcome after fast-track hip arthroplasty: a prospective cohort study
Kristian Larsen, Torben B Hansen, Kjeld Søballe, Henrik Kehlet
Gender differences in health related quality of life of young heroin users
Antònia Domingo-Salvany, M Teresa Brugal, Gregorio Barrio, Francisco González-Saiz, M José Bravo, Luís de la Fuente
Reference bias: presentation of extreme health states prior to eq-vas improves health-related quality of life scores. a randomised cross-over trial
Steven McPhail, Elaine Beller, Terry Haines
Validation of a computer-adaptive test to evaluate generic health-related quality of life
Pablo Rebollo, Ignacio Castejón, Jesús Cuervo, Guillermo Villa, Eduardo García-Cueto, Helena Díaz-Cuervo, Pilar C Zardaín, José Muñiz, Jordi Alonso
Psychometric properties of the Brief Pain Inventory among patients with osteoarthritis undergoing total hip replacement surgery
Heidi Kapstad, Berit Rokne, Knut Stavem
Do South Asian women with PCOS have poorer health-related quality of life than Caucasian women with PCOS? A comparative cross-sectional study
Georgina L Jones, Manisha Palep-Singh, William L Ledger, Adam H Balen, Crispin Jenkinson, Michael J Campbell, Hany Lashen
Experiences and barriers to Health-Related Quality of Life following liver transplantation: a qualitative analysis of the perspectives of pediatric patients and their parents
David B Nicholas, Anthony R Otley, Rachel Taylor, Anil Dhawan, Susan Gilmour, Vicky Lee Ng
Development, evaluation and validation of a new instrument for measurement quality of life in the parents of children with chronic disease
Małgorzata Farnik, Grzegorz Brożek, Władysław Pierzchała, Jan E Zejda, Michał Skrzypek, Łukasz Walczak
Evaluation of oral health-related quality of life among Sudanese schoolchildren using Child-OIDP inventory
Nazik M Nurelhuda, Mutaz F Ahmed, Tordis A Trovik, Anne N Åstrøm
Using Chinese Version of MYMOP in Chinese Medicine Evaluation: Validity, Responsiveness and Minimally Important Change
Vincent CH Chung, Vivian CW Wong, Chun Hong Lau, Henny Hui, Tat Hing Lam, Lin Xiao Zhong, Samuel YS Wong, Sian M Griffiths