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  3. Attention disturbances are frequently observed in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The aim of this study was to provide new evidence regarding the suitability of using self-reported QoL information in this im...

    Authors: Karine Baumstarck, Mohamed Boucekine, Irina Klemina, Françoise Reuter, Valérie Aghababian, Anderson Loundou, Jean Pelletier and Pascal Auquier
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:70
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  4. Sulfur mustard (SM) is an alkylating agent that induces short and long term toxicity on various organs. The aim of this study was to assess the long-term psychological symptoms among samples of exposed to sulf...

    Authors: Rasoul Roshan, Parvin Rahnama, Zeinab Ghazanfari, Ali Montazeri, Mohammad Reza Soroush, Mohammad Mehdi Naghizadeh, Mahdiyeh Melyani, Azadeh Tavoli and Tooba Ghazanfari
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:69
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  5. Disease-specific patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have been developed as important research tools in the study of various diseases. For hypothyroidism there exist three validated disease-specific ques...

    Authors: Eva M Quinque, Arno Villringer, Juergen Kratzsch and Stefan Karger
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:68
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  6. The IOFS (Impact On Family Scale) questionnaire is a useful instrument to assess the impact of chronic childhood conditions on general family quality of life. As this instrument was not validated in French, we...

    Authors: Raphaël Boudas, Jérémie Jégu, Bruno Grollemund, Elvire Quentel, Anne Danion-Grilliat and Michel Velten
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:67
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  7. We introduce the Pemberton Happiness Index (PHI), a new integrative measure of well-being in seven languages, detailing the validation process and presenting psychometric data. The scale includes eleven items ...

    Authors: Gonzalo Hervás and Carmelo Vázquez
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:66
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  8. The Regensburg Insomnia Scale (RIS) is a new self-rating scale to assess cognitive, emotional and behavioural aspects of psychophysiological insomnia (PI) with only ten items. A specific purpose of the new sca...

    Authors: Tatjana Crönlein, Berthold Langguth, Roland Popp, Helmut Lukesch, Christoph Pieh, Göran Hajak and Peter Geisler
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:65
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  9. Patient-reported outcome measures have become a well-recognised part of outcome assessment in orthopaedic surgery. These questionnaires claim to measure joint-specific dimensions like pain, function in activit...

    Authors: Johannes M Giesinger, Markus S Kuster, Henrik Behrend and Karlmeinrad Giesinger
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:64
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  10. Perceived incongruity between the individual and the job on work-life areas such as workload, control, reward, fairness, community and values have implications for the dimensions of burnout syndrome. The “Area...

    Authors: Santiago Gascón, Michael P Leiter, Naomi Stright, Miguel A Santed, Jesús Montero-Marín, Eva Andrés, Angela Asensio-Martínez and Javier García-Campayo
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:63
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  11. Psychological flexibility has been suggested as a fundamental process in health. The Psychological Inflexibility in Pain Scale (PIPS) is one of the scales employed for assessing psychological inflexibility in ...

    Authors: Baltasar Rodero, Joao Paulo Pereira, Maria Cruz Pérez-Yus, Benigno Casanueva, Antonio Serrano-Blanco, Maria J Rodrigues da Cunha Ribeiro, Juan V Luciano and Javier Garcia-Campayo
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:62
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  12. The Assessment of Quality of Life - 6D scale (AQoL-6D) is a self-report instrument designed to provide a sensitive multidimensional evaluation of health related quality of life. The current paper assesses the ...

    Authors: Joanne Allen, Kerry J Inder, Terry J Lewin, John R Attia and Brian J Kelly
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:61
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  14. To determine the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for the health-utility measures EuroQol-5 dimensions (EQ-5D) and Quality of Well Being Self-Administered (QWB-SA) Scale in PTSD patients.

    Authors: Quang A Le, Jason N Doctor, Lori A Zoellner and Norah C Feeny
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:59
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  15. A key goal for services treating older persons is improving Quality of Life (QoL). This study aimed to 1) determine the QoL and utility (i.e. satisfaction with own quality of life) for participants of a discha...

    Authors: Tracy A Comans, Nancye M Peel, Leonard C Gray and Paul A Scuffham
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:58
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  16. This discussion is meant to examine the issues raised by Gadarowski in a recent Letter to the Editor.

    Authors: Isabella Piva, Angela Graziano, Giuseppe Lo Monte, Stefano Caracciolo and Roberto Marci
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:53
    Content type: Letter to the Editor Published on:

  18. Various healthcare and social services may impact not only health, but wellbeing as well. Such effects may be more fully captured by capability-wellbeing instruments than with Health-related Quality of Life (H...

    Authors: Peter Makai, Marc A Koopmanschap, Werner BF Brouwer and Anna AP Nieboer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:57
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  19. The health-related quality of life (HRQL) of people living with HIV infection is an important consideration in HIV management. The PROQOL-HIV psychometric instrument was recently developed internationally as a...

    Authors: Susan Herrmann, Elizabeth McKinnon, Noel B Hyland, Christophe Lalanne, Simon Mallal, David Nolan, Olivier Chassany and Martin Duracinsky
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:56
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  20. While arthritis is the most common cause of disability, non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics experience worse arthritis impact despite having the same or lower prevalence of arthritis compared to non-Hispanic whi...

    Authors: Kimberly R Middleton, Michael M Ward, Steffany Haaz, Sinthujah Velummylum, Alice Fike, Ana T Acevedo, Gladys Tataw-Ayuketah, Laura Dietz, Barbara B Mittleman and Gwenyth R Wallen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:55
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  21. Parents of children with chronic conditions are known to be at risk of impairment in their quality of life (QoL). Studies considering other chronic conditions proposed diverse factors to have an impact on the ...

    Authors: Astrid Fidika, Christel Salewski and Lutz Goldbeck
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:54
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  22. It is important to know the impact of Very Preterm (VP) birth or Very Low Birth Weight (VLBW). The purpose of this study is to evaluate changes in Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) of adults born VP or wi...

    Authors: Afra van Lunenburg, Sylvia M van der Pal, Paula van Dommelen, Karin M van der Pal – de Bruin, Jack Bennebroek Gravenhorst and Gijsbert HW Verrips
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:51
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  23. Adolescents with Type 1 diabetes (T1D) show less effective metabolic control than other age groups, partly because of biological changes beyond their control and partly because in this period of developmental ...

    Authors: Susan M Moore, Naomi J Hackworth, Victoria E Hamilton, Elisabeth P Northam and Fergus J Cameron
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:50
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  24. The quality of the parent–child relationship has an important effect on a wide range of child outcomes. The evaluation of interventions to promote healthy parenting and family relationships is dependent on out...

    Authors: Douglas E Simkiss, Fiona MacCallum, Emma EY Fan, John M Oates, Peter K Kimani and Sarah Stewart-Brown
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:49
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  25. The quality of life (QOL) of caregivers of individuals with chronic spinal cord injuries may be affected by several factors. Moreover, this issue is yet to be documented fully in the literature.

    Authors: Mohammad Hossein Ebrahimzadeh, Bibi-Soheila Shojaei, Farideh Golhasani-Keshtan, Seyed Hossein Soltani-Moghaddas, Asieh Sadat Fattahi and Seyed Mahdi Mazloumi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:48
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  26. The Pediatric Quality of Life InventoryTM (PedsQLTM) is a widely used instrument to measure pediatric health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in children aged 2 to 18 years. The current study aimed to evaluate the...

    Authors: Jun Hu, Li Jiang, Siqi Hong, Li Cheng, Min Kong and Yuanzhen Ye
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:47
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  27. This longitudinal study describes the five year trajectories of health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) and life satisfaction in long term colorectal cancer survivors.

    Authors: Jeff Dunn, Shu Kay Ng, William Breitbart, Joanne Aitken, Pip Youl, Peter D Baade and Suzanne K Chambers
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:46
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  28. The Australian Whiplash Disability Questionnaire (WDQ) was cross-culturally translated, adapted, and tested for validity to be used in German-speaking patients. The self-administered questionnaire evaluates ac...

    Authors: Corina Schuster, Michael McCaskey and Thierry Ettlin
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:45
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  29. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures are increasingly used in the general population. However, little is known about patterns and determinants of unanswered or unusable questionnaires and their cons...

    Authors: Joel Coste, Laurent Quinquis, Etienne Audureau and Jacques Pouchot
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:44
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  30. Women undergoing radical cystectomy (RC) and urinary diversion for bladder cancer experience substantial limitations in health-related quality of life (HRQOL). However, the level of discomfort caused by differ...

    Authors: Mauro Gacci, Omar Saleh, Tommaso Cai, John L Gore, Carolina D’Elia, Andrea Minervini, Lorenzo Masieri, Claudia Giannessi, Michele Lanciotti, Virginia Varca, Alchiede Simonato, Sergio Serni, Giorgio Carmignani and Marco Carini
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:43
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  31. Selection of an appropriate patient-reported outcome (PRO) instrument for a clinical trial requires knowledge of the instrument’s responsiveness to detecting treatment effects. The purpose of this study was to...

    Authors: Albert W Wu, Kristin A Hanson, Gale Harding, Seema Haider, Margaret Tawadrous, Alexandra Khachatryan, Chris L Pashos and Kit N Simpson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:42
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  32. Studies on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) are missing for nursing home residents independent from their health conditions or interventions after admission. Our aim was to analyse if the care dependency...

    Authors: Manuela Tabali, Thomas Ostermann, Elke Jeschke, Theo Dassen and Cornelia Heinze
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:41
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  33. With data from a diverse sample of patients either in treatment for cancer or post-treatment for cancer, we examine inter-domain and cross-domain correlations among the core domains of the Patient-Reported Out...

    Authors: Kathryn E Flynn, Bryce B Reeve, Li Lin, Jill M Cyranowski, Deborah Watkins Bruner and Kevin P Weinfurt
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:40
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  34. Antibiotics overuse is a global public health issue influenced by several factors, of which some are parent-related psychosocial factors that can only be measured using valid and reliable psychosocial measurem...

    Authors: Arwa Alumran, Xiang-Yu Hou and Cameron Hurst
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:39
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  35. Despite collection of patient reported outcome (PRO) data in clinical trials of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), PRO results are not being routinely reported on European Medicines Agency (EMA) and Food and Drug Adm...

    Authors: Annabel Nixon, Cicely Kerr, Katie Breheny and Diane Wild
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:38
    Content type: Review Published on:

  36. Anxiety disorders are prevalent and associated with poor prognosis in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). However, studies examining screening of anxiety disorders in CAD patients are lacking. In the ...

    Authors: Adomas Bunevicius, Margarita Staniute, Julija Brozaitiene, Victor JM Pop, Julius Neverauskas and Robertas Bunevicius
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:37
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  38. Clinical studies employ the Unified Parkinson’s Disease Rating Scale (UPDRS) to measure the severity of Parkinson’s disease. Evaluations often fail to consider the health-related quality of life (HrQoL) or app...

    Authors: Judith Dams, Jens Klotsche, Bernhard Bornschein, Jens P Reese, Monika Balzer-Geldsetzer, Yaroslav Winter, Anette Schrag, Andrew Siderowf, Wolfgang H Oertel, Günther Deuschl, Uwe Siebert and Richard Dodel
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:35
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  41. The aim of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of the Fatigue Severity Scale (FSS) to verify whether this instrument is a valid tool to measure fatigue in obese patients, and to examine the p...

    Authors: Franco M Impellizzeri, Fiorenza Agosti, Alessandra De Col and Alessandro Sartorio
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:32
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  42. Patient treatment satisfaction is likely to be a highly relevant outcome measure in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), a condition for which the benefits of treatment must be weighed against frequent, unde...

    Authors: Hubert Chen, Erika B Rosenzweig, S Karl Gotzkowsky, Carl Arneson, Andrew C Nelsen and Robert C Bourge
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:31
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  43. Nephrotic syndrome (NS) represents a common disease in pediatric nephrology typified by a relapsing and remitting course and characterized by the presence of edema that can significantly affect the health-rela...

    Authors: Debbie S Gipson, David T Selewski, Susan F Massengill, Larysa Wickman, Kassandra L Messer, Emily Herreshoff, Corinna Bowers, Maria E Ferris, John D Mahan, Larry A Greenbaum, Jackie MacHardy, Gaurav Kapur, Deepa H Chand, Jens Goebel, Gina Marie Barletta, Denis Geary…
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:30
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  44. Childhood obesity is a growing health concern known to adversely affect quality of life in children and adolescents. The Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) pediatric measures wer...

    Authors: David T Selewski, David N Collier, Jackie MacHardy, Heather E Gross, Edward M Pickens, Alan W Cooper, Selam Bullock, Marian F Earls, Keeley J Pratt, Kelli Scanlon, Jonathan D McNeill, Kassandra L Messer, Yee Lu, David Thissen, Darren A DeWalt and Debbie S Gipson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:29
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  45. Voice problems are more common in teachers due to intensive voice use during routine at work. There is evidence that occupational disphonia prevention programs are important in improving the quality voice and ...

    Authors: Raquel Aparecida Pizolato, Maria Inês Beltrati Cornacchioni Rehder, Marcelo de Castro Meneghim, Glaucia Maria Bovi Ambrosano, Fábio Luiz Mialhe and Antonio Carlos Pereira
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:28
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  46. We aimed to validate the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) among English speaking adults representing two of the minority ethnic groups living in the UK, self-identified as Chinese or Pakistan...

    Authors: Frances Taggart, Tim Friede, Scott Weich, Aileen Clarke, Mark Johnson and Sarah Stewart-Brown
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:27
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  47. Pediatric health-related quality of life (HRQL) measures explore multiple domains of HRQL. To ease administration, burden, and implementation, we created a 7-item unidimensional global HRQL scale for children....

    Authors: Angie Mae Rodday, Norma Terrin and Susan K Parsons
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:26
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  48. The objectives for this study were to assess Oral Health Related Quality of Life (OHRQoL) in young people aged 15–25 who sought orthodontic treatment, and to measure the association between orthodontic treatme...

    Authors: Yaghma Masood, Mohd Masood, Nurul Nadiah Binti Zainul, Nurhuda Binti Abdul Alim Araby, Saba Fouad Hussain and Tim Newton
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:25
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  49. Achieving optimal outcomes in type 2 diabetes (T2DM) involves several demanding self-care behaviours, e.g. managing diet, activity, medications, monitoring glucose levels, footcare. The Self-Care Inventory-Rev...

    Authors: Leena Khagram, Colin R Martin, Melanie J Davies and Jane Speight
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:24
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  50. To investigate health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients affected by early systemic sclerosis (eSSc) and to compare it with that of patients with undifferentiated connective tissue disease (UCTD).

    Authors: Michele Iudici, Giovanna Cuomo, Serena Vettori, Manuela Avellino and Gabriele Valentini
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:23
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