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  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  15. 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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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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
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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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

  31. The Norwegian version of the Kidscreen-27, a measure of generic health-related quality of life, has not yet been validated. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the reliability and validity of the No...

    Authors: John Roger Andersen, Gerd Karin Natvig, Kristin Haraldstad, Turid Skrede, Eivind Aadland and Geir Kåre Resaland
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:58
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  32. 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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  33. Being born with very low birth weight (VLBW: ≤1500 g) is related to long-term disability and neurodevelopmental problems, possibly affecting mental health and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, s...

    Authors: Ingrid Marie Husby, Kaia Mølbach-Thellefsen Stray, Alexander Olsen, Stian Lydersen, Marit Sæbø Indredavik, Ann-Mari Brubakk, Jon Skranes and Kari Anne I. Evensen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:56
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  35. Postherpetic neuralgia (PHN) interferes with patients’ quality of life, and disturbed sleep is a prevalent complaint. Pain-associated sleep interference in turn enhances pain and/or reduces pain tolerance. The...

    Authors: Neel Mehta, Iwona Bucior, Shay Bujanover, Rajiv Shah and Amitabh Gulati
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:54
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  36. Recent studies have associated positive emotions with several variables such as learning, coping strategies or assertive behaviour. The concept of gratitude has been specifically defined as a tendency to recog...

    Authors: Álvaro I. Langer, Valentina G. Ulloa, José M. Aguilar-Parra, Claudio Araya-Véliz and Gonzalo Brito
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:53
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  37. Patient-reported outcomes have been associated with survival in numerous studies across cancer types, including breast cancer. However, the Brief Pain Inventory-Short Form (BPI-SF) and the Rotterdam Symptom Ch...

    Authors: Emily Nash Smyth, Wei Shen, Lee Bowman, Patrick Peterson, William John, Allen Melemed and Astra M. Liepa
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:52
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  38. Estimating quality of life (QoL) in patients with breast cancer is of importance in assessing treatment outcomes. Adjuvant endocrine therapy is widely used for hormone receptor-positive (HR+) early-stage breas...

    Authors: Ayong Cao, Jin Zhang, Xiaoan Liu, Weizhu Wu, Yinhua Liu, Zhimin Fan, Anqin Zhang, Tianning Zhou, Peifen Fu, Shu Wang, Quchang Ouyang, Jinhai Tang, Hongchuan Jiang, Xiaohua Zhang, Da Pang, Jianjun He…
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:51
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  40. Despite changes in the treatment paradigm towards non-interferon-based therapies, interferon-based treatments are still used in some geographical regions for treating patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infe...

    Authors: Kelly M. Grotzinger, Zobair M. Younossi, Edoardo G. Giannini, Pei-Jer Chen, Regina Rendas-Baum and Dickens Theodore
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:49
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  41. Quality of life as an endpoint in a clinical study may be sensitive to the value set used to derive a single score. Focusing on patients’ actual valuations in a clinical study, we compare different value sets ...

    Authors: Reiner Leidl, Bernd Schweikert, Harry Hahmann, Juergen M. Steinacker and Peter Reitmeir
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:48
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  42. Chronic subjective tinnitus is a frequent condition that affects the subject’s quality of life. The lack of objective measures of tinnitus necessitates the use of self-reporting and often time-consuming questi...

    Authors: Nicole Peter, Tobias Kleinjung, Lukas Horat, Sabine Schmidt-Weitmann, Martin Meyer, Stefan Büchi and Steffi Weidt
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:47
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  43. This article summarizes exploratory analyses of relationships between chronic inflammation, its physical consequences, and quality of life (QoL). It summarizes key findings from preliminary analyses, and conte...

    Authors: Alexandra C. H. Nowakowski, Katelyn Y. Graves and J. E. Sumerau
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:46
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  44. The concept of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) was brought up decades ago and has been well utilized in many different areas. Regarding immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) management, much work has been done ...

    Authors: Heng Zhang, Li Wang, Meijie Quan, Jie Huang, Peng Wu, Qin Lu and Yongjun Fang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:45
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  45. A Sinhalese version of a validated, disease-specific patient-reported heart disease health related quality of life instrument is lacking. The purpose of this study was to validate the interviewer-administered ...

    Authors: K. L. M. D. Seneviwickrama, D. B. D. L. Samaranayake, P. Fonseka, G. N. L. Galappaththy, S. Höfer and N. B. Oldridge
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:44
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  46. Examine the feasibility of performing an item response theory (IRT) analysis on two of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention health-related quality of life (CDC HRQOL) modules – the 4-item Healthy Day...

    Authors: Thelma J. Mielenz, Leigh F. Callahan and Michael C. Edwards
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:43
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  47. Tuberculosis (TB) is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in South Africa. Clinical parameters are important objective outcomes in TB; however they often are not directly correlated with subjective well-...

    Authors: Tanja Kastien-Hilka, Ahmed Abulfathi, Bernd Rosenkranz, Bryan Bennett, Matthias Schwenkglenks and Edina Sinanovic
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:42
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  49. Minor fractures (e.g. wrist, ankle) are risk factors for lower physical health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in seniors. Recent studies found that measures of frailty were associated with decreased physical ...

    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 14:40
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:59

  50. The ICECAP measures potentially offer a broader assessment of quality of life and well-being, in comparison to measures routinely used in economic evaluation, such as the EQ-5D-3 L. This broader assessment may...

    Authors: T. Keeley, J. Coast, E. Nicholls, N. E. Foster, S. Jowett and H. Al-Janabi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2016 14:36
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