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  1. To systematically identify and appraise evidence on associations between psychological factors (moods, beliefs, personality) and Health-related QoL (HRQoL) and/or global QoL in patients with Amyotrophic Latera...

    Authors: Annerieke C. van Groenestijn, Esther T. Kruitwagen-van Reenen, Johanna M. A. Visser-Meily, Leonard H. van den Berg and Carin D. Schröder
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:107
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  2. Agitation is frequently observed during early recovery after traumatic brain injury (TBI). Agitated behaviour often interferes with a goal-orientated rehabilitation and can be a substantial hindrance to therap...

    Authors: Stephanie Hellweg and Corina Schuster-Amft
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:106
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  3. The use of the EQ-5D to asses the economic benefits of health technologies has led to questions about the cross-population transferability of preference weights to calculate health utility scores. The aim of t...

    Authors: Mingying Fang, Mark Oremus, Jean-Eric Tarride and Parminder Raina
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:105
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  4. The morning tends to be the most difficult time of day for many patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) when symptoms can limit one’s ability to perform even simple activities. Morning sympt...

    Authors: Gary Globe, Brooke Currie, Nancy Kline Leidy, Paul Jones, David Mannino, Fernando Martinez, Paul Klekotka, Sean O’Quinn, Niklas Karlsson and Ingela Wiklund
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:104
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  5. To assess the internal consistency reliability and construct validity of the Dutch version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument-Older Adults Module (WHOQOL-OLD).

    Authors: Robbert J. J. Gobbens and Marcel A. L. M. van Assen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:103
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  6. Adopting technologies such as injection safety devices in healthcare settings can enhance injection safety. Developing guidelines for appropriate adoption of such technologies need to consider factors beyond e...

    Authors: Rami Tarabay, Rola El Rassi, Abeer Dakik, Alain Harb, Rami A. Ballout, Batoul Diab, Selma Khamassi and Elie A. Akl
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:102
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  7. It has been suggested that the EQ-5D-3 L preference-based measure of health outcome lacks sensitivity to discriminate between health states in cancer patients. An alternative approach is to use a disease (canc...

    Authors: Sanjeewa Kularatna, Jennifer A. Whitty, Newell W. Johnson, Ruwan Jayasinghe and Paul A. Scuffham
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:101
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  8. Limited studies have investigated relationships in psychosocial outcomes between adolescents who are obese and their parents and how psychosocial outcomes change during participation in a physical activity and...

    Authors: Ashley A. Fenner, Erin K. Howie, Melissa C. Davis and Leon M. Straker
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:100
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  9. Inadequate studies have been conducted in China to examine quality of life in family caregivers. Quality of life in family caregivers for elderly people with chronic diseases was evaluated, and the demographic...

    Authors: Hui Xie, Cheng Cheng, Yisheng Tao, Jie Zhang, Delprino Robert, Jihui Jia and Yonggang Su
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:99
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  10. This study aimed to assess ethnic differences in health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among the rural elderly, and to examine the influence of ethnic culture, residential segregation and socioeconomic develo...

    Authors: Tai Zhang, Wuxiang Shi, Zhaoquan Huang, Dong Gao, Zhenyou Guo, Jianying Liu and Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:98
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  11. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is widely used as an outcome measure in the evaluation of treatment interventions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In order to address chall...

    Authors: Muirne C. S. Paap, Lonneke I. M. Lenferink, Nadine Herzog, Karel A. Kroeze and Job van der Palen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:97
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  12. The aim of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the Brazilian version of the Oral Anticoagulation Knowledge (OAK) Test.

    Authors: Marcus Fernando da Silva Praxedes, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de Abreu, Saul Martins Paiva, Juliana Vaz de Melo Mambrini, Milena Soriano Marcolino and Maria Auxiliadora Parreiras Martins
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:96
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  13. Children with a clinical diagnosis of calcaneal apophysitis reportedly experience impaired physical ability. Patient reported outcome assessments measure the level of conditional specific interference in every...

    Authors: Alicia M. James, Cylie M. Williams and Terry P. Haines
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:95
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  14. Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The association of CKD-related complications such as anemia and mineral and bone disorders (MBD) with HRQoL in pre-d...

    Authors: Hwee-Lin Wee, Benjamin Jun Jie Seng, Jia Jia Lee, Kok Joon Chong, Pallavi Tyagi, Anantharaman Vathsala and Priscilla How
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:94
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  16. Sleep problems are common in adolescents and can have a negative impact on daily functioning and quality of life; therefore recognition of sleep problems is important. The PROMIS (Patient-Reported Outcomes Inf...

    Authors: Jojanneke A. M. C. van Kooten, Caroline B. Terwee, Gertjan J. L. Kaspers and Raphaёle R. L. van Litsenburg
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:92
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  17. The Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI) has suggested to asses pain after specific activities consistently in clinical trials on knee OA. The Dynamic weight-bearing Assessment of Pain (DAP) a...

    Authors: Louise Klokker, Robin Christensen, Eva E. Wæhrens, Elisabeth Bandak, Cecilie Bartholdy, Henning Bliddal and Marius Henriksen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:91
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  18. There is a lack of standardisation in quality of life (QoL) measurements to be used in older multimorbid patients. An ideal QoL measurement should be reliable, valid, subjective, multidimensional, feasible and...

    Authors: Gustav Torisson, Lars Stavenow, Lennart Minthon and Elisabet Londos
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:90
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  19. Some studies have reported a ceiling effect in EQ-5D-3L, especially in healthy and/or young individuals. Recently, two further levels have been included in its measurement model (EQ-5D-5L). The purposes of thi...

    Authors: Lara N. Ferreira, Pedro L. Ferreira, Filipa P. Ribeiro and Luis N. Pereira
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:89
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  20. Prospective assessments of oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) changes are prone to response shift effects when patients reconceptualize, reprioritize, or recalibrate the perceived meanings of OHRQoL ...

    Authors: Daniel R. Reissmann, Mike T. John, Leah Feuerstahler, Kazuyoshi Baba, Gyula Szabó, Asja Čelebić and Niels Waller
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:88
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  21. The EORTC QLQ-C30 is one of the most widely used quality of life questionnaires in cancer research. Availability of thresholds for clinical importance for the individual questionnaire domains could help to inc...

    Authors: Johannes M. Giesinger, Wilma Kuijpers, Teresa Young, Krzysztof A. Tomaszewski, Elizabeth Friend, August Zabernigg, Bernhard Holzner and Neil K. Aaronson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:87
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  22. Vitiligo is a multi-factorial pigmentary skin disorder. Recently, the importance of emotional and psychological issues is proposed in incidence, progression, relapse and remission of vitiligo. There are limite...

    Authors: Kosar Hedayat, Mojgan Karbakhsh, Maryam Ghiasi, Azadeh Goodarzi, Yousef Fakour, Zahra Akbari, Afsaneh Ghayoumi and Narges Ghandi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:86
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  23. Self-rated health status and healthcare services utilization are important indicators to evaluate the performance of health system. In disadvantaged areas, however, little is known about the access and outcome...

    Authors: Bach Xuan Tran, Long Hoang Nguyen, Vuong Minh Nong and Cuong Tat Nguyen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:85
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  24. To document the development and evaluation of the Quality of life Disease Impact Scale (QDIS®), a measure that standardizes item content and scoring across chronic conditions and provides a summary, norm-based...

    Authors: John E. Ware Jr., Barbara Gandek, Rick Guyer and Nina Deng
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:84
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  25. We used structural equation modeling to evaluate the quality of life (QOL) for patients with Marfan syndrome (MFS). The goal was to provide guidelines to facilitate the development of interventions and strateg...

    Authors: Ju Ryoung Moon, Yong Ae Cho, June Huh, I-Seok Kang and Duk-Kyung Kim
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:83
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  26. The CareGiver Oncology Quality of Life (CarGOQoL) questionnaire, a 29-item, multidimensional, self-administered questionnaire, was validated using a large French sample. We reported the linguistic validation p...

    Authors: Sarah C. Kaveney, Karine Baumstarck, Patricia Minaya-Flores, Tarrah Shannon, Philip Symes, Anderson Loundou and Pascal Auquier
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:82
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  27. The majority of care for older adults with multiple chronic conditions (MCC) is provided by family (including friends) caregivers. Although caregivers have reported positive benefits to caregiving they also ex...

    Authors: Wendy Duggleby, Allison Williams, Sunita Ghosh, Heather Moquin, Jenny Ploeg, Maureen Markle-Reid and Shelley Peacock
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:81
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  28. Undergoing diagnostic evaluation for cancer has been associated with a high prevalence of anxiety and depression and affected health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The aims of this study were to assess HRQoL...

    Authors: Ellen Moseholm, Susan Rydahl-Hansen, Dorthe Overgaard, Hanne S. Wengel, Rikke Frederiksen, Malene Brandt and Bjarne Ø. Lindhardt
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:80
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  29. Health-related quality of life, which can be investigated using self-reports or parental reports, could help healthcare providers understand the subjective perception of well-being of children suffering from r...

    Authors: Teresa Grimaldi Capitello, Caterina Fiorilli, Silvia Placidi, Roberta Vallone, Fabrizio Drago and Simonetta Gentile
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:79
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  30. The impact of axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA) is considerable in many aspects of the life. Over the last decades, many efforts have been conducted to develop useful tools for the evaluation of disease activity...

    Authors: Marco Di Carlo, Valentina Lato, Marina Carotti and Fausto Salaffi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:78
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  31. The content and wording of the Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Physical Function and Pain Interference item banks have not been qualitatively assessed by individuals with knee ...

    Authors: Andrew D. Lynch, Nathan E. Dodds, Lan Yu, Paul A. Pilkonis and James J. Irrgang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:77
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  32. The aim was to develop and validate the quality of life scale for nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients, the QOL-NPC (version 2), a specific instrument to measure quality of life for NPC patients.

    Authors: Yong Su, Chuan-wei Mo, Wan-qin Cheng, Lei Wang, Qian Xu, Zu-chun Wu, Zhe-li Wu, Li-zhi Liu and Xin-lin Chen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:76
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  34. Childhood maltreatment is an important risk factor for mental and physical health problems. Adolescents living in residential youth care (RYC) have experienced a high rate of childhood maltreatment and are a h...

    Authors: Hanne Klæboe Greger, Arne Kristian Myhre, Stian Lydersen and Thomas Jozefiak
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:74
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  35. Improvement of quality of life has been one of goals in health care for people living with bladder cancer. Meanwhile, positive psycho-social variables in oncology field have increasingly received attention. Ho...

    Authors: Meng-Yao Li, Yi-Long Yang, Li Liu and Lie Wang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:73
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  36. Role functioning (RF) as a core construct of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) comprises aspects of occupational and social roles relevant for patients in all treatment phases as well as for survivors. Th...

    Authors: Eva-Maria Gamper, Morten Aa Petersen, Neil Aaronson, Anna Costantini, Johannes M. Giesinger, Bernhard Holzner, Georg Kemmler, Anne Oberguggenberger, Susanne Singer, Teresa Young and Mogens Groenvold
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:72
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  37. Research suggests that physical activity plays a role to improve health related- quality of life (QoL), however studies examining the association between physical activity and HRQOL are limited in the paediatr...

    Authors: Sharifah Wajihah Wafa bte Syed Saadun Tarek Wafa, Mohd Razif bin Shahril, Aryati bte Ahmad, Laila Ruwaida bte Zainuddin, Karimah Fakhriah bte Ismail, Myat Moe Thwe Aung and Noor Aini bte Mohd Yusoff
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:71
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  38. The Health Behavior in School-aged Children is a cross-national study collecting data on social and health indicators on adolescents in 43 countries. The study provides comparable data on health behaviors and ...

    Authors: Christina W. Schnohr, Inese Gobina, Teresa Santos, Joanna Mazur, Mujgan Alikasifuglu, Raili Välimaa, Maria Corell, Curt Hagquist, Paola Dalmasso, Yeva Movseyan, Franco Cavallo, Saskia van Dorsselaer and Torbjørn Torsheim
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:70
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  39. The main aim of this study was to assess the association between adherence to the traditional Mediterranean diet (MedDiet) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and treatment satisfaction in patients with...

    Authors: Nuria Alcubierre, Montserrat Martinez-Alonso, Joan Valls, Esther Rubinat, Alicia Traveset, Marta Hernández, Maria Dolores Martínez-González, Minerva Granado-Casas, Carmen Jurjo, Jesus Vioque, Eva Maria Navarrete-Muñoz and Didac Mauricio
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:69
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  40. Limited evidence exists regarding the relationship between health literacy and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Australian patients from primary care. The objective of this study was to investigate th...

    Authors: Upali W. Jayasinghe, Mark Fort Harris, Sharon M. Parker, John Litt, Mieke van Driel, Danielle Mazza, Chris Del Mar, Jane Lloyd, Jane Smith, Nicholas Zwar and Richard Taylor
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:68
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  41. The family of KIDSCREEN instruments is the only one with trans-cultural adaptation and validation in Colombia. These validations have been performed from the classical test theory approach, which has evidenced...

    Authors: Claudia-Marcela Vélez, Luz-Helena Lugo-Agudelo, Gilma-Norela Hernández-Herrera and Héctor-Iván García-García
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:67
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  42. There is some initial evidence that an enhanced physical activity level can improve fquality of life, and possibly survival among patients with lung cancer. The primary aim of this project was to evaluate the ...

    Authors: Jeff A. Sloan, Andrea L. Cheville, Heshan Liu, Paul J. Novotny, Jason A. Wampfler, Yolanda I. Garces, Matthew M. Clark and Ping Yang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:66
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  43. Recurrent vulvovaginal candidiasis (RVVC) has a poor therapeutic outcome and a severe impact on women and their partners, both physically and psychologically. Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is signific...

    Authors: Yu-Xia Zhu, Ting Li, Shang-Rong Fan, Xiao-Ping Liu, Yi-Heng Liang and Ping Liu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:65
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  44. Quality of life has become an important concept in cancer care. Among the quality of lifestudies in cancer patients, breast cancer has received most attention. This review reports on quality of life in Arab pa...

    Authors: Bouchra Haddou Rahou, Karima El Rhazi, Fatima Ouasmani, Chakib Nejjari, Rachid Bekkali, Ali Montazeri and Abdelhalem Mesfioui
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:64
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  45. The analysis aimed to examine the impact of pulmonary exacerbations (PEs) and lung function on generic measures of HRQL in patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) using trial-based data.

    Authors: Caitlyn T. Solem, Montserrat Vera-Llonch, Sizhu Liu, Marc Botteman and Brenda Castiglione
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:63
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  46. Health-related quality of life (HRQL) in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients with implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs) is largely unknown. The aim was to assess HRQL, including comparisons bet...

    Authors: Peter Magnusson, Stellan Mörner, Fredrik Gadler and Jan Karlsson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:62
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  47. The Long Form and Short Form of the German (original) version of the Urticaria Control Test (UCT) have shown to be valid and reliable instruments for assessing patients with all types of chronic urticaria (CU)...

    Authors: Kanokvalai Kulthanan, Leena Chularojanamontri, Papapit Tuchinda, Chuda Rujitharanawong, Marcus Maurer and Karsten Weller
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:61
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  48. Several mapping algorithms have been published with the EORTC-QLQ-C30 for estimating EQ-5D-3L utilities. However, none are available with EQ-5D-5L. Moreover, a comparison between mapping algorithms in the same...

    Authors: Iftekhar Khan, Steve Morris, Nora Pashayan, Bashir Matata, Zahid Bashir and Joe Maguirre
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:60
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  49. Authors: Véronique Provencher, Marie-Josée Sirois, Marcel Émond, Jeffrey J. Perry, Raoul Daoust, Jacques S. Lee, Lauren E. Griffith, Brice Lionel Batomen Kuimi, Litz Rony Despeignes, Laura Wilding, Vanessa Fillion, Nadine Allain-Boulé and Johan Lebon
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:59
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    The original article was published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:40

  50. Electronic formats of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures are now routinely used in clinical research studies. When changing from a validated paper and pen to electronic administration it is necessary to e...

    Authors: J. Twiss, S. P. McKenna, J. Graham, K. Swetz, J. Sloan and M. Gomberg-Maitland
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:57
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