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  1. Knee osteoarthritis (OA) represents a heavy burden for patients and the society as a whole. The Oxford Knee Score (OKS) is a well known tool to assess the quality of life in patients with Knee OA. The purpose ...

    Authors: Jesús Martín-Fernández, Roberto García-Maroto, Fco Javier Sánchez-Jiménez, Alonso Bau-González, Homero Valencia-García, Blanca Gutiérrez-Teira, Juan Carlos Arenaza, Lidia García-Pérez, Renata Linertová and Amaia Bilbao
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:186
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  2. The VascuQoL-6 (VQ-6) health-related quality of life questionnaire, a short version of the disease-specific VascuQoL-25, was developed for clinical practice and use in vascular registries. The study purpose wa...

    Authors: Anne Sofie F. Larsen, Anne Therese Reiersen, Morten B. Jacobsen, Nils-Einar Kløw, Joakim Nordanstig, Mark Morgan and Jarlis Wesche
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:184
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  3. It has been hypothesized that adaptation of health practice guidelines to the local setting is expected to improve their uptake and implementation while cutting on required resources. We recently adapted the p...

    Authors: Andrea Darzi, Manale Harfouche, Thurayya Arayssi, Samar Alemadi, Khalid A. Alnaqbi, Humeira Badsha, Farida Al Balushi, Bassel Elzorkany, Hussein Halabi, Mohammed Hamoudeh, Wissam Hazer, Basel Masri, Mohammed A. Omair, Imad Uthman, Nelly Ziade, Jasvinder A. Singh…
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:183
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  4. The responsiveness of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) has varied greatly across studies; hence, we hypothesized that this discrepancy could be related to the complexity of dental treatmen...

    Authors: Tatiane F. Novaes, Laura Regina A. Pontes, Julia G. Freitas, Carolina P. Acosta, Katia Cristina E. Andrade, Renata S. Guedes, Thiago M. Ardenghi, José Carlos P. Imparato, Mariana M. Braga, Daniela P. Raggio and Fausto M. Mendes
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:182
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  6. Due to risk and response adapted treatment strategies, more than 80% of newly diagnosed classical Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) patients can be cured, and become long-term survivors. However, a high proportion of surv...

    Authors: Ferenc Magyari, Karolina Kósa, Roland Berecz, Anna Illés, Zsófia Miltényi, Zsófia Simon and Árpád Illés
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:180
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  7. Systemic family interventions have shown to be effective in adolescents with substance use disorder and delinquent behavior. The interventions target interactions between the adolescent and involved systems (i...

    Authors: S. Schawo, C. Bouwmans, E. van der Schee, V. Hendriks, W. Brouwer and L. Hakkaart
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:179
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  8. Shoulder pain is a common musculoskeletal disorder in Chinese population, which affects more than 1,3 billion individuals. To the best of our knowledge, there has been no available Chinese-language version of ...

    Authors: Min Yao, Long Yang, Zuo-yuan Cao, Shao-dan Cheng, Shuang-lin Tian, Yue-li Sun, Jing Wang, Bao-ping Xu, Xiao-chun Hu, Yong-jun Wang, Ying Zhang and Xue-jun Cui
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:178
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  9. This review aims to critically appraise and compare the measurement properties of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)-specific health-related quality of life instruments.

    Authors: Xin-Lin Chen, Liang-huan Zhong, Yi Wen, Tian-Wen Liu, Xiao-Ying Li, Zheng-Kun Hou, Yue Hu, Chuan-wei Mo and Feng-Bin Liu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:177
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  10. The Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) is an instrument that is commonly used to screen for depression in patients with chronic disease, but the characteristics of the CES-D in adults ...

    Authors: Ju Ryoung Moon, June Huh, Jinyoung Song, I-Seok Kang, Seung Woo Park, Sung-A Chang, Ji-Hyuk Yang and Tae-Gook Jun
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:176
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  11. To examine the benefit of cataract surgery on visual acuity and vision related quality of life in patients with stabilized vision-threatening diabetic retinopathy.

    Authors: Bijun Zhu, Yingyan Ma, Senlin Lin and Haidong Zou
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:175
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  13. Oral disorders may negatively affect the quality of life (QoL) of adolescents.

    Authors: Inara Pereira da Cunha, Antônio Carlos Pereira, Antônio Carlos Frias, Vladen Vieira, Marcelo de Castro Meneghim, Marília Jesus Batista, Karine Laura Cortellazzi and Jaqueline Vilela Bulgareli
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:173
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  14. This study explores (1) differences in socio-demographic, social/familial, and health variables and perceived quality of life (QoL) among partners of patients with somatic illness, mental illness, or substance...

    Authors: Bente Birkeland, Bente M. Weimand, Torleif Ruud, Magnhild M. Høie and John-Kåre Vederhus
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:172
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  15. This paper investigates the properties and performance of the two generic measures, EQ-5D and SF-12, for Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) assessments of pregnant women living with HIV in Kunming City, Yi...

    Authors: Xiaowen Wang, Guangping Guo, Ling Zhou, Jiarui Zheng, Xiumin Liang, Zhanqin Li, Hongzhuan Luo, Yuyan Yang, Liyuan Yang, Ting Tan, Jun Yu and Lin Lu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:158
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  16. Identifying scientific literature addressing patients’ views and preferences is complex due to the wide range of studies that can be informative and the poor indexing of this evidence. Given the lack of guidan...

    Authors: Anna Selva, Ivan Solà, Yuan Zhang, Hector Pardo-Hernandez, R. Brian Haynes, Laura Martínez García, Tamara Navarro, Holger Schünemann and Pablo Alonso-Coello
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:126
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  17. Due to increasing export of labor service, many children following their parents leave from rural areas to urban areas in China. These migrant children might have psychological stress and lower quality of life...

    Authors: Fengjiao Xu, Haiyan Xing, Wei Yu, Sanmei Chen and Hui Li
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:100
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  18. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important outcome measure among HIV infected patients receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART). When HIV infected patients coinfected with Visceral Leishmaniasis (VL)...

    Authors: Mekuriaw Alemayehu, Mamo Wubshet, Nebiyu Mesfin, Aschalew Tamiru and Abebaw Gebayehu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:65
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  19. A number of the QL researches in case of different pathologies are being increased during the last decade. The existing traditional research methods provide mostly arbitrary data on the disease and its treatme...

    Authors: Marine Mardiyan, Siranush Mkrtchyan, Artur Shukuryan, Armine Chopikyan, Razmik Dunamalyan and Lusine Danielyan
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:171
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  20. Parkinson’s disease is characterized by motor and non-motor symptoms with wide ranging impacts on the health-related quality of life. The 39-item Parkinson’s disease Questionnaire (PDQ-39) is the most widely u...

    Authors: Kui Chen, Yu-Jie Yang, Feng-Tao Liu, Da-Ke Li, Lu-Lu Bu, Ke Yang, Ying Wang, Bo Shen, Rong-Yuan Guan, Jie Song, Jian Wang and Jian-Jun Wu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:170
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  21. The Patient-Rated Wrist Evaluation (PRWE) is a widely used measure of patient-reported disability and pain related to wrist disorders. We performed cross-cultural adaptation of the PRWE into Spanish (Spain) an...

    Authors: Roberto S. Rosales, Rayco García-Gutierrez, Luis Reboso-Morales and Isam Atroshi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:169
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  22. The aim of present study was to compare the effects of different aerobic exercise intensities and energy expenditures on the body composition of sedentary obese college students in Taiwan.

    Authors: Chih-Hui Chiu, Ming-Chen Ko, Long-Shan Wu, Ding-Peng Yeh, Nai-Wen Kan, Po-Fu Lee, Jenn-Woei Hsieh, Ching-Yu Tseng and Chien-Chang Ho
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:168
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  23. Although numerous health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instruments are available for patients with diabetes, the length of these measures may limit their feasibility to routine practice. Also, these measures...

    Authors: Chung-Ying Lin, Tsung-Ying Lee, Zih-Jie Sun, Yi-Ching Yang, Jin-Shang Wu and Huang-Tz Ou
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:167
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  24. Nephrotic syndrome represents a condition in pediatric nephrology typified by a relapsing and remitting course, proteinuria and the presence of edema. The PROMIS measures have previously been studied and valid...

    Authors: David T. Selewski, Jonathan P. Troost, Danyelle Cummings, Susan F. Massengill, Rasheed A. Gbadegesin, Larry A. Greenbaum, Ibrahim F. Shatat, Yi Cai, Gaurav Kapur, Diane Hebert, Michael J. Somers, Howard Trachtman, Priya Pais, Michael E. Seifert, Jens Goebel, Christine B. Sethna…
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:166
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  25. In this study, we aimed to investigate the impact of surgical procedures on the body image of head and neck cancer patients treated with radiotherapy and with or without radical surgery.

    Authors: Tsung-Min Hung, Ching-Rong Lin, Yu-Chun Chi, Chien-Yu Lin, Eric Yen-Chao Chen, Chung-Jan Kang, Shiang-Fu Huang, Yeong-Yuh Juang, Chun-Yu Huang and Joseph Tung-Chieh Chang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:165
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  26. DEMQOL and DEMQOL-Proxy are widely used patient reported outcome measures (PROMs) of health related quality of life in people with dementia (PWD). Growing interest in routine use of PROMs in health care calls ...

    Authors: A. A. Jolijn Hendriks, Sarah C. Smith, Theopisti Chrysanthaki, Stefan J. Cano and Nick Black
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:164
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  27. The Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT-SCT4) is a multi-attribute utility index designed for the evaluation of long-term social care services. The measure comprises eight attributes that capture aspects...

    Authors: Stacey Rand, Juliette Malley, Ann-Marie Towers, Ann Netten and Julien Forder
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:163
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  28. The aim of this study was to explore the need for a new disease-specific patient reported outcome (PRO) measure for use in clinical trials of drugs designed to target the underlying causes of polycystic ovary ...

    Authors: Mona L. Martin, Katarina Halling, Daniel Eek, Meaghan Krohe and Jean Paty
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:162
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  29. It is well known that cancer patients tend to have high levels of perceived stress and symptoms of depression and anxiety. However, there is less study on the association between perceived stress and symptoms ...

    Authors: Chun Li Liu, Li Liu, Yi Zhang, Xiao Ze Dai and Hui Wu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:161
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  30. Treatment options for advanced nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the first line include platinum-based doublet therapy with or without bevacizumab. This study examined efficacy outcomes and pat...

    Authors: Mark S. Walker, William Wong, Arliene Ravelo, Paul J. E. Miller and Lee S. Schwartzberg
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:160
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  32. The NEI VFQ-25 has undergone psychometric evaluation in patients with varying ocular conditions and the general population. However, important limitations which may affect the interpretation of clinical trial ...

    Authors: Jennifer Petrillo, Neil M. Bressler, Ecosse Lamoureux, Alberto Ferreira and Stefan Cano
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:157
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  33. To estimate the burden of diseases, it is important to consider patient-reported outcomes including Quality of Life (QoL). The aim of this study is to provide population-based reference data for the National E...

    Authors: Stefan Nickels, Alexander K. Schuster, Susanne Singer, Philipp S. Wild, Dagmar Laubert-Reh, Andreas Schulz, Robert P. Finger, Matthias Michal, Manfred E. Beutel, Thomas Münzel, Karl J. Lackner and Norbert Pfeiffer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:156
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  34. Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) could be affected not only by oral health but also by demographic and ecosocial factors. This research aimed to analyze the sociodemographic and clinical factors th...

    Authors: Ling Sun, Hai Ming Wong and Colman P. J. McGrath
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:155
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  35. Pre-event Quality of Life (QOL) reflects the true social circumstances in which people live prior to the onset of myocardial infarctions. It is believed to be a predictor of the post-event QOL. The aim of this...

    Authors: P. K. B. Mahesh, M. W. Gunathunga, Saroj Jayasinghe, S. M. Arnold, R. Haniffa and A. P. De Silva
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:154
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  36. To establish the validity and reliability of the Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) in service users with schizophrenia, depression and anxiety spectrum disorders in Singapore and estima...

    Authors: Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Edimansyah Abdin, Siow Ann Chong, Rajeswari Sambasivam, Esmond Seow, Anitha Jeyagurunathan, Louisa Picco, Sarah Stewart-Brown and Mythily Subramaniam
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:153
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  37. An earthquake struck Yushu in Qinghai province of China on April 14, 2010, causing 2698 deaths and 12,135 injuries.The present study aimed to assess the health status, and associated determinants, of child sur...

    Authors: Xu Liu, Hongyang Yang, Bihan Tang, Yuan Liu and Lulu Zhang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:152
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  38. Assessing the impact of disease severity on generic quality of life (QOL) is a critical step in outcomes research and in the development of decision-analytic models structured around health states defined by c...

    Authors: Kirk Geale, Martin Henriksson and Marcus Schmitt-Egenolf
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:151
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  39. Healthcare interventions that have positive effects on the stroke survivors’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) might also have positive effects for their spouses in...

    Authors: Josefine Persson, Lars-Åke Levin, Lukas Holmegaard, Petra Redfors, Katarina Jood, Christina Jern, Christian Blomstrand and Gunilla Forsberg-Wärleby
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:150
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  40. Positive psychological constructs that can moderate or mediate the negative impact of disease activity on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) have not been explore...

    Authors: Li Liu, Xin Xu, Neili Xu and Lie Wang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:149
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  41. Post kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a dermatological disorder caused by protozoal parasite Leishmania donovani. PKDL cases are thought to be a reservoir of parasites and may increase cases of visceral l...

    Authors: Biplab Pal, Krishna Murti, Niyamat Ali Siddiqui, Pradeep Das, Chandra Shekhar Lal, Rajendra Babu, Manoj Kumar Rastogi and Krishna Pandey
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:148
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  42. Liver Retransplantation (Re-LT) procedures are associated with an increased risk of morbidity and mortality. Up to date, there is no knowledge on the health-related quality of life and the mental status of the...

    Authors: Johannes Broschewitz, Georg Wiltberger, Nicco Krezdorn, Felix Krenzien, Julia Förster, Georgi Atanasov, Hans-Michael Hau, Moritz Schmelzle, Andreas Hinz, Michael Bartels and Christian Benzing
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:147
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  43. The prevalence of diabetes mellitus (DM) is increasing dramatically, placing considerable financial burden on the healthcare budget of each country. Patient self-management is crucial for the control of blood ...

    Authors: J. Carlton, J. Elliott, D. Rowen, K. Stevens, H. Basarir, K. Meadows and J. Brazier
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:146
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  44. To develop the Chinese version of quality of life scale for dry eye patients based on the Impact of Dry Eye on Everyday Life (IDEEL) questionnaire and to assess the reliability and validity of the developed sc...

    Authors: Bang Zheng, Xiao-jing Liu, Yue-qian Fiona Sun, Jia-zeng Su, Yang Zhao, Zheng Xie and Guang-yan Yu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:145
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  45. Very few studies have examined the association between financial status and the quality of life (QOL) of patients with specific cancers. Ovarian cancer survivors frequently suffer repeat recurrence and subsequ...

    Authors: Zhuyan Shao, Tao Zhu, Ping Zhang, Qiang Wen, Dan Li and Shihua Wang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:144
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  46. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and health state utility value (HSUV) measurements are vital components of healthcare clinical and economic evaluations. Accurate measurement of HSUV and HRQoL require va...

    Authors: Anik R. Patel, Richard T. Lester, Carlo A. Marra, Mia L. van der Kop, Paul Ritvo, Lidia Engel, Sarah Karanja and Larry D. Lynd
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:143
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  48. The Health of the Nation Outcomes Scale (HoNOS) is recommended for use by the English National Service Framework for Mental Health and by the working group on outcome indicators for severe mental illnesses to ...

    Authors: Wayne Smith, Silia Vitoratou, Paul McCrone and Anita Patel
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:141
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  49. Thus far, only a few longitudinal studies investigated the impact of social engagement on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and depressive symptoms in old age. Therefore, we aimed to examine the impact of...

    Authors: André Hajek, Christian Brettschneider, Tina Mallon, Annette Ernst, Silke Mamone, Birgitt Wiese, Siegfried Weyerer, Jochen Werle, Michael Pentzek, Angela Fuchs, Janine Stein, Tobias Luck, Horst Bickel, Dagmar Weeg, Michael Wagner, Kathrin Heser…
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:140
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  50. Measuring the quality of life (QOL) is a benchmark in today’s world of medicine. The aim of the present study was to determine the general health and QOL of infertile women and certain affecting conditions.

    Authors: Azam Namdar, Mohammad Mehdi Naghizadeh, Marziyeh Zamani, Farideh Yaghmaei and Mohammad Hadi Sameni
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2017 15:139
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