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  2. Some capability dimensions may be more important than others in determining someone’s well-being, and these preferences might be dependent on ill-health experience. This study aimed to explore the relative pre...

    Authors: Timea Mariann Helter, Alexander Kaltenboeck, Josef Baumgartner, Franz Mayrhofer, Georg Heinze, Andreas Sönnichsen, Johannes Wancata and Judit Simon
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:99
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  3. Mapping the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire (MLHFQ) to SF-6Dv2 in Chinese patients with chronic heart failure, and to obtain the health utility value for health economic assessment.

    Authors: Jianni Cong, Yanbo Zhu, Jinhang Du, Lin Lin, Yuan He, Qian Zhang, Tan Ooh Chye, Xiaoying Lv, Wenqiong Liu, Xinrui Wu, Fanghui Ma, Xinyuan Zhao, Yuqiong Li and Liqun Long
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:98
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  4. Utility instruments are used to assess patients’ health-related quality of life for cost-utility analysis (CUA). However, for cancer patients, the dimensions of generic utility instruments may not capture all ...

    Authors: Helen McTaggart-Cowan, Madeleine T. King, Richard Norman, Daniel S. J. Costa, A. Simon Pickard, Rosalie Viney and Stuart J. Peacock
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:97
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  5. SF-6Dv2, the latest version of SF-6D, has been developed recently, and its measurement properties remain to be evaluated and compared with the EQ-5D-5L. The aim of this study was to assess and compare the meas...

    Authors: Shitong Xie, Dingyao Wang, Jing Wu, Chunyu Liu and Wenchen Jiang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:96
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  6. The PROMIS-57 is a commonly used self-reported instrument to solve the lack of generalizable and universal measures required to evaluate common symptoms and functions from patients’ perspectives. This study ai...

    Authors: Tingting Cai, Fulei Wu, Qingmei Huang, Chunfang Yu, Yang Yang, Feixia Ni and Changrong Yuan
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:95
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  7. The Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System 29-item Profile (PROMIS-29) has been widely used to measure health outcomes from the patient’s perspective. It has not been validated in adults with...

    Authors: Wanbing Huang, Qiansheng Wu, Yufen Zhang, Chong Tian, Haishan Huang, Sufang Huang, Yanrong Zhou, Jing He and Hui Wang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:94
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  8. Data on health state utility in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are few. This study estimated mean utility values by age, ambulatory status and over time, and investigated which aspects of health-related qua...

    Authors: Shelagh M. Szabo, Ivana F. Audhya, Basia Rogula, David Feeny and Katherine L. Gooch
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:93
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  9. Previous studies have shown that patients with different lumbar spine diseases report different SF-36 profiles, but data on the stability of the SF-36 profiles are limited. The primary aim of the current study...

    Authors: Anders Joelson, Freyr Gauti Sigmundsson and Jan Karlsson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:92
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  10. Data on mental health improvement after cardiac rehabilitation (CR) are contradictory. The aim was to examine the mental and psycho-social health of patients admitted to our rehabilitation center following hos...

    Authors: Felix Angst, Raoul D. Giger, Susanne Lehmann, Peter S. Sandor, Peter Teuchmann and Adam Csordas
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:91
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  11. Patients with multiple long-term conditions often face a variety of challenges arising from the requirements of their health care. Knowledge of perceived treatment burden is crucial for optimizing treatment. I...

    Authors: Josefine Schulze, Amanda Breckner, Polly Duncan, Martin Scherer, Nadine Janis Pohontsch and Dagmar Lühmann
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:90
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  12. The RAND-36 and RAND-12 (equivalent to versions 1 of the SF-36 Health Survey and SF-12 Health Survey, respectively) are widely used measures of health-related quality of life. However, there are diverging view...

    Authors: John Roger Andersen, Kyrre Breivik, Inger Elise Engelund, Marjolein M. Iversen, Jorunn Kirkeleit, Tone Merete Norekvål, Kjersti Oterhals and Anette Storesund
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:89
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  13. Self-report is the standard for measuring people’s health-related quality of life (HRQoL), including children. However, in certain circumstances children cannot report their own health. For this reason, childr...

    Authors: Titi Sahidah Fitriana, Fredrick Dermawan Purba, Elly Stolk and Jan J. V. Busschbach
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:88
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  14. Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) scores are used in many countries as access and reimbursement criteria for costly dermatological treatments. In this study we examined how time trade-off (TTO) utility val...

    Authors: Gábor Ruzsa, Fanni Rencz and Valentin Brodszky
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:87
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  15. Endometriosis is often associated with severe dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain and dyspareunia and has a high impact on daily life as well as sexuality. Quality of partnership positively influences the course of vari...

    Authors: Schick Maren, Germeyer Ariane, Böttcher Bettina, Hecht Stephanie, Geiser Magdalena, Rösner Sabine, Eckstein Monika, Vomstein Kilian, Toth Bettina, Strowitzki Thomas, Wischmann Tewes and Ditzen Beate
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:86
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  16. Respondents in a health valuation study may have different sources of error (i.e., heteroskedasticity), tastes (differences in the relative effects of each attribute level), and scales (differences in the abso...

    Authors: Suzana Karim, Benjamin M. Craig and Catharina G. M. Groothuis-Oudshoorn
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:85
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  17. In settings with high antiretroviral therapy coverage, numerous health-related issues continue to undermine the health and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of people living with HIV (PLHIV). As part of a...

    Authors: Kelly Safreed-Harmon, Maria J. Fuster-RuizdeApodaca, Marta Pastor de la Cal and Jeffrey V. Lazarus
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:84
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  18. Decisions about how to manage bothersome symptoms of chronic illness are complex and influenced by factors related to the patient, their illness, and their environment. Naturalistic decision-making describes d...

    Authors: Shayleigh Dickson Page, Christopher Lee, Subhash Aryal, Kenneth Freedland, Anna Stromberg, Ercole Vellone, Heleen Westland, Douglas J. Wiebe, Tiny Jaarsma and Barbara Riegel
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:83
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  19. In public health context, oncology is associated with severe negative impact on patients and on their relatives’ quality of life. Over the last decades, survival has remained at 50% worldwide for some tumor lo...

    Authors: Augusta Silveira, Teresa Sequeira, Joaquim Gonçalves and Pedro Lopes Ferreira
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:82
    Content type: Review Published on:

  20. Quality of life (QOL) is a good indicator of lifespan, especially for individuals who are suffering from a particular illness. QOL among patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) could be used for further implement...

    Authors: Ratipark Tamornpark, Suphaphorn Utsaha, Tawatchai Apidechkul, Dunlayaphap Panklang, Fartima Yeemard and Peeradone Srichan
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:81
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  21. Two EQ-5D-3L (3L) value sets (developed in 2014 and 2018) co-exist in China. The study examined the level of agreement between index scores for all the 243 health states derived from them at both absolute and ...

    Authors: Ruo-Yu Zhang, Wei Wang, Hui-Jun Zhou, Jian-Wei Xuan, Nan Luo and Pei Wang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:80
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  24. People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) are frequently confronted with severe social issues such as rejection, abandonment, criticism, and stigma. This would negatively affect their quality of life. Several studie...

    Authors: Nebiyu Mengistu, Habtamu Endashaw Hareru, Seid Shumye, Solomon Yimer, Daniel Sisay, Abdene Weya Kaso, Temesgen Muche, Chalachew Kassaw, Negasa Eshete Soboksa, Wondwosen Molla, Alemayehu Molla and Bereket Duko
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:77
    Content type: Review Published on:

  25. The diagnosis of a neurodegenerative disease (ND) produces profound changes in the quality of life of the affected families. Despite the vital importance of these processes, the scientific literature has addre...

    Authors: Alba Aza, María Gómez-Vela, Marta Badia, M. Begoña Orgaz, Eva González-Ortega, Isabel Vicario-Molina and Estrella Montes-López
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:76
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  26. Ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn’s disease (CD) are associated with a range of symptoms that adversely affect health-related quality of life. This research aimed to develop and validate two patient-reported o...

    Authors: Arpita Nag and Beverly Romero
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:75
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  27. Authors: Luca Barni, María Ruiz‑Muñoz, Manuel Gonzalez‑Sanchez, Antonio I. Cuesta‑Vargas, Jose Merchan‑Baeza and Marco Freddolini
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:74
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    The original article was published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2021 19:259

  30. It is estimated that, worldwide, 9% of deaths occur as a result of insufficient physical activity (PA) practice. Practicing PA can prevent and/or reduce the deleterious effects of different types of diseases a...

    Authors: Catarina Covolo Scarabottolo, William Rodrigues Tebar, Luis Alberto Gobbo, David Ohara, Aline Duarte Ferreira, Daniel da Silva Canhin and Diego Giulliano Destro Christofaro
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:71
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  31. While different measures have been validated and used to assess the oral health related quality of life (OHRQoL) of children and adolescents, no previous study has tested the psychometric performance of OHRQoL...

    Authors: Manu Raj Mathur, Deepti Nagrath, Huda Yusuf, Vijay Kumar Mishra and Georgios Tsakos
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:70
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  32. We sought to determine the association between mental stress-induced myocardial ischaemia (MSIMI) and quality of life (QoL) in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) after coronary revascularization.

    Authors: Nan Nan, Wei Dong, Bingyu Gao, Feihuan Cui, Zhi Chang, Jian Jiao, Huijuan Zuo, Hongzhi Mi, Xiantao Song, Shuzheng Lyu and Hongjia Zhang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:69
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  33. Psoriasis (PS) is difficult to cure with a high incidence. Therefore, the quality of life (QOL) of people with Psoriasis has caused widespread concern. Universal scales respond poorly to subtle changes caused ...

    Authors: Qiongling Liu, Li Feng, Chonghua Wan, Jianfeng Tan, Jianbin Yu and Li Wang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:68
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  34. There are many methods available for measuring social support and quality of life (QoL) of adolescents, of these, the KIDSCREEN tools are most widely used. Thus, we aimed to translate and validate the KIDSCREE...

    Authors: Leona Cilar Budler, Majda Pajnkihar, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, Owen Barr and Gregor Stiglic
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:67
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  35. Previous research on health behavior and subjective well-being has mainly focused on interindividual differences or explored certain domains of health behavior. Good health behavior and subjective well-being a...

    Authors: Säde Stenlund, Heli Koivumaa-Honkanen, Lauri Sillanmäki, Hanna Lagström, Päivi Rautava and Sakari Suominen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:66
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  36. Uterine sarcomas are rare subtypes of primary urogenital tumours and need tailored treatment. This study aimed to examine the impact of diagnosis and treatment on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in pati...

    Authors: Dide den Hollander, Emma Lidington, Susanne Singer, Samantha C. Sodergren, Samer Salah, Marco Fiore, Charlotte Benson, Ingrid M. E. Desar, Vivian W. G. Burgers, Olga Husson and Winette T. A. van der Graaf
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:65
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  37. Lifestyles, accounting for 53% in determining death, play a vital role in improving the health of older adults. Thus, this study aimed to explore the influencing factors of the health-promoting-lifestyles and ...

    Authors: Xiao Zheng, Yaqing Xue, Fang Dong, Lei Shi, Shujuan Xiao, Jiachi Zhang, Benli Xue, Yi Qian, Hong Zhu, Qiang Man and Chichen Zhang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:64
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  38. It has been suggested that obesity phenotypes are related to mental health problems and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, there is no certain consensus. This systematic review aimed to evaluate ...

    Authors: Behnaz Abiri, Farhad Hosseinpanah, Seyedshahab Banihashem, Seyed Ataollah Madinehzad and Majid Valizadeh
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:63
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  39. Crohn’s disease (CD) is a chronic disease that may have an adverse impact on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This study aimed to describe the HRQoL of CD patients and assess correlating factors using t...

    Authors: Ziyun Gao, Pei Wang, Jie Hong, Yuqing Yan, Tianying Tong, Bin Wu, Jun Hu and Zhenhua Wang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:62
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  40. While evidence concerning Quality of Life (QoL) in youth with cerebral palsy (CP) in comparison to the general population has been accumulating, there is a lack of studies exploring differences on a wider rang...

    Authors: Silke Schmidt, Henriette Markwart, Marion Rapp, Audrey Guyard, Catherine Arnaud, Jérôme Fauconnier, Ute Thyen, Stefanie Hahm, Nicolas Vidart d’Egurbide Bagazgoïtia and Holger Muehlan
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:61
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  41. Demoralization is a common problem in oral cancer patients owing to the chronic and severe nature of their affliction. However, the association between demoralization and the patient’s spiritual needs, quality...

    Authors: Ting-Gang Chang, Pei-Ching Huang, Chiann-Yi Hsu and Ting-Ting Yen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:60
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  42. The Healthy Aging Brain Care-Monitor (HABC-M) questionnaires (self-reported version and caregiver version) have been validated for post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) detection in patients surviving a stay in ...

    Authors: Geoffrey Horlait, Charlotte Beaudart, Laurine Bougard, Stephen Bornheim, Camille Colson, Benoit Misset, Olivier Bruyère, Malaz Boustani and Anne-Françoise Rousseau
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:59
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  43. One of key current social trends is the increasing number of single people. It has multiple implications as single individuals often live and behave differently than those living in relationships. Marital stat...

    Authors: Daniel Puciato, Michał Rozpara, Marek Bugdol and Barbara Mróz-Gorgoń
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:58
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:73

  44. Duchenne muscular dystrophy is a rare, progressive, life-limiting genetic neuromuscular condition that significantly impacts the quality of life of informal caregivers. Carer quality of life is measured using ...

    Authors: Jill Carlton and Philip A. Powell
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:57
    Content type: Review Published on:

  45. This study aimed to evaluate the moderating effect of sense of coherence (SOC) on the relationship between social capital and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) among schoolchildren.

    Authors: Jessica Klöckner Knorst, Mario Vianna Vettore, Bruna Brondani, Bruno Emmanuelli, Fernanda Tomazoni and Thiago Machado Ardenghi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:56
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  46. Despite a global decline in new HIV/AIDS cases in low-middle countries, cases are increasing in Indonesia. Low knowledge about the disease among the general population is one of the major factors responsible f...

    Authors: Bustanul Arifin, M. Rifqi Rokhman, Zulkarnain Zulkarnain, Dyah Aryani Perwitasari, Marianti Manggau, Saidah Rauf, Rasuane Noor, Retna Siwi Padmawati, Maarten J. Postma, Muhammad Nasrum Massi and Jurjen van der Schans
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:55
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  47. Infertility and its treatment have negative impacts on a couple’s marital relationship, sexual life, psychological state and interpersonal relationships, causing personal distress. Health-related quality of li...

    Authors: Zhao Shi, Zhuxin Mao, Hongwei Nie, Ling Geng, Gang Chen and Shunping Li
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:54
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  48. Few health-related quality of life (QOL) questionnaires are designed specifically for healthy populations and are specific to gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms even though healthy individuals may frequently exper...

    Authors: Matthew Beke, Alyssa M. Burns, Sydney Weir, Rebecca J. Solch, Taylor C. Judkins, Carmelo Nieves Jr. and Bobbi Langkamp-Henken
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:53
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  49. Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurological diseases that adversely impact the quality of life of patients and their families. The “Quality of Life of Childhood Epilepsy Questionnaire” (hereinafter...

    Authors: Ping Tang, Qunfeng Lu, Yinghui Wu, Lin Wang, Wenjuan Tang, Yan Jiang, Liling Yang, Jianlin Ji, Xiaomin Sun, Jingmin Sun and Jie Yang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:52
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  50. Asthma impacts children’s physical, emotional, and psychosocial Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL). The EQ-5D-Y is a generic econometric instrument developed to measure HRQL in children.

    Authors: Karina Mayoral, Olatz Garin, Catalina Lizano-Barrantes, Angels Pont, Araceli M. Caballero-Rabasco, Manuel Praena-Crespo, Laura Valdesoiro-Navarrete, María Teresa Guerra, José Antonio Castillo, Inés de Mir, Eva Tato, Jordi Alonso, Vicky Serra-Sutton, Yolanda Pardo and Montse Ferrer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:51
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