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  1. Evidence on the relation between leisure-time physical activity (LTPA) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in older adults is based primarily on clinical trials of physical exercise programs in institut...

    Authors: Teresa Balboa-Castillo, Luz M León-Muñoz, Auxiliadora Graciani, Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo and Pilar Guallar-Castillón
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:47
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  2. This retrospective study evaluated the impact of disease progression and of specific sites of metastasis on patient reported outcomes (PROs) that assess symptom burden and health related quality of life (HRQoL...

    Authors: Mark S Walker, Murad Hasan, Yeun Mi Yim, Elaine Yu, Edward J Stepanski and Lee S Schwartzberg
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:46
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  3. Maintaining dignity, the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect, is considered as a goal of palliative care. The aim of this study was to analyse the construct of personal dignity and to assess the conte...

    Authors: Gwenda Albers, H Roeline W Pasman, Mette L Rurup, Henrica CW de Vet and Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:45
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  4. Dizziness is a common and often disabling symptom, but diagnosis often remains unclear; especially in older persons where dizziness tends to be multicausal. Research on dizziness-related impairment might provi...

    Authors: Jacquelien Dros, Otto R Maarsingh, Leo Beem, Henriëtte E van der Horst, Gerben ter Riet, François G Schellevis and Henk CPM van Weert
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:44
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  5. The principals of therapeutic recreation underpin a camping program for children and adolescents living with chronic disease. This study aimed to evaluate the campers' health-related quality of life (HRQoL) be...

    Authors: Andrea Békési, Szabolcs Török, Gyöngyi Kökönyei, Ildikó Bokrétás, Annamária Szentes and Gábor Telepóczki
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:43
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  6. Oral health has been of interest in many low and middle income countries due to its impact on general health and quality of life. But there are very few population-based reports of adult Oral Health Related Qu...

    Authors: Vasoontara Yiengprugsawan, Tewarit Somkotra, Sam-ang Seubsman and Adrian C Sleigh
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:42
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  7. Pain is strongly related to poor quality of life. We performed a cross-sectional study in a universitary hospital to investigate quality of life in women suffering from chronic pelvic pain (CPP) due to endomet...

    Authors: Carlos A Souza, Luciano M Oliveira, Camila Scheffel, Vanessa K Genro, Virginia Rosa, Marcia F Chaves and João S Cunha Filho
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:41
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  8. The Child Perception Questionnaire (CPQ11-14) is a self-report instrument developed to measure oral-health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in 11-14-year-olds. Earlier reports confirm that the 16-item short-form ...

    Authors: Lyndie A Foster Page, W Murray Thomson, A Rizan Mohamed and Jefferson Traebert
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:40
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  9. Fibromyalgia (FM) is a complex syndrome that affects many aspects of the patients life and it is very difficult to evaluate in clinical practice. A recent study has developed the Combined Index of Severity of ...

    Authors: Miguel A Vallejo, Javier Rivera, Joaquim Esteve-Vives and Javier Rejas
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:39
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  10. The Dead Sea region, the lowest in the world at 410 meters below sea level, is considered a potent climatotherapy center for the treatment of different chronic diseases.

    Authors: Avital Avriel, Lior Fuchs, Ygal Plakht, Assi Cicurel, Armando Apfelbaum, Robert Satran, Michael Friger, Dimitry Dartava and Shaul Sukenik
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:38
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  11. With the ongoing demographic shift, the quality of life and health promotion among older individuals are becoming increasingly important. Recent research suggests that Sense of Coherence positively affects qua...

    Authors: Jenneken Naaldenberg, Hilde Tobi, Franciska van den Esker and Lenneke Vaandrager
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:37
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  12. We evaluated the psychometric characteristics of the Short Form 36 (SF-36) Health Survey and the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT)-Fatigue subscale in patients with ankylosing spondyliti...

    Authors: Dennis A Revicki, Anne M Rentz, Michelle P Luo and Robert L Wong
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:36
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  13. The purpose of this study was to identify predictors of 3-month mortality in critically ill older persons under medical care and to assess the clinical impact of an ICU stay on physical and cognitive dependenc...

    Authors: Cédric Daubin, Stéphanie Chevalier, Amélie Séguin, Cathy Gaillard, Xavier Valette, Fabrice Prévost, Nicolas Terzi, Michel Ramakers, Jean-Jacques Parienti, Damien du Cheyron and Pierre Charbonneau
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:35
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  14. Although impaired health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has been reported in patients with sarcoidosis, there is currently no sarcoidosis-specific questionnaire in Japan. The 29-item Sarcoidosis Health Questi...

    Authors: Kiminobu Tanizawa, Tomohiro Handa, Sonoko Nagai, Toru Oga, Takeshi Kubo, Yutaka Ito, Kizuku Watanabe, Kensaku Aihara, Kazuo Chin, Michiaki Mishima and Takateru Izumi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:34
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  15. There is limited information about the medium to long-term health-related quality of life (QOL) in thyroid cancer patients after initial therapy and the existing studies suffer from limitations. The aim of the...

    Authors: David Taïeb, Karine Baumstarck-Barrau, Frédéric Sebag, Cécile Fortanier, Catherine De Micco, Anderson Loundou, Pascal Auquier, Fausto F Palazzo, Jean-françois Henry and Olivier Mundler
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:33
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  16. Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in children and adolescents with signs and symptoms of temporomandibular disorder (TMD) has not yet been measured. This study aimed to evaluate the validity and rel...

    Authors: Taís S Barbosa, Marina S Leme, Paula M Castelo and Maria Beatriz D Gavião
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:32
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  17. Many studies have found discrepancies in valuations for health states between the general population (healthy people) and people who actually experience illness (patients). Such differences may be explained by...

    Authors: Paul FM Krabbe, Noor Tromp, Theo JM Ruers and Piet LCM van Riel
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:31
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  18. Patient-reported outcomes are measured in many epidemiologic studies using self- or interviewer-administered questionnaires. While in some studies differences between these administration formats were observed...

    Authors: Milo A Puhan, Alka Ahuja, Mark L Van Natta, Lori E Ackatz and Curtis Meinert
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:30
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  19. Since the majority of stroke survivors return home following their stroke, families play a pivotal role in their care. Few studies have addressed both positive and negative aspects of this role or the broader ...

    Authors: Christine J McPherson, Keith G Wilson, Livia Chyurlia and Charles Leclerc
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:29
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  20. Psychosocial functioning is poor in patients with pectus excavatum (PE). However, a comprehensive understanding of this issue does not exist. The aim of this study was to assess the severity of psychosocial pr...

    Authors: Yi Ji, Wenying Liu, Siyuan Chen, Bing Xu, Yunman Tang, Xuejun Wang, Gang Yang and Liming Cao
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:28
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  21. Patient-reported outcome measurement (PROM) plays an increasingly important role in palliative care. A variety of measures exists and is used in clinical care, audit and research. However, little is known abou...

    Authors: Claudia Bausewein, Steffen T Simon, Hamid Benalia, Julia Downing, Faith N Mwangi-Powell, Barbara A Daveson, Richard Harding and Irene J Higginson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:27
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  23. With the increase of pediatric cancer survival rates, late effects and quality of life (QoL) have received more attention. Disturbed sleep in pediatric cancer is a common clinical observation, but research on ...

    Authors: Raphaële RL van Litsenburg, Jaap Huisman, Peter M Hoogerbrugge, R Maarten Egeler, Gertjan JL Kaspers and Reinoud JBJ Gemke
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:25
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  24. The population of survivors following allogeneic HSCT continues to increase, and yet their experiences of recovery and long-term survivorship have not been fully characterized. This paper presents a study prot...

    Authors: Margaret F Bevans, Sandra A Mitchell, A John Barrett, Michael Bishop, Richard Childs, Daniel Fowler, Michael Krumlauf, Patricia Prince, Nonniekaye Shelburne and Leslie Wehrlen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:24
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  25. Measuring change is fundamental to evaluations, health services research and quality management. To date, the Gold-Standard is the prospective assessment of pre- to postoperative change. However, this is not a...

    Authors: Eva M Bitzer, Marco Petrucci, Christoph Lorenz, Rugzan Hussein, Hans Dörning, Alf Trojan and Stefan Nickel
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:23
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  26. The PedsQL 3.0 Cancer Module is a widely used instrument to measure pediatric cancer specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for children aged 2 to 18 years. We developed the Japanese version of the Pe...

    Authors: Naoko Tsuji, Naoko Kakee, Yasushi Ishida, Keiko Asami, Ken Tabuchi, Hisaya Nakadate, Tsuyako Iwai, Miho Maeda, Jun Okamura, Takuro Kazama, Yoko Terao, Wataru Ohyama, Yuki Yuza, Takashi Kaneko, Atsushi Manabe, Kyoko Kobayashi…
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:22
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  27. Quality of life (QOL) is a core outcome of palliative care, yet in African settings there is a lack of evidence on patients' levels of QOL. We aimed to describe QOL among patients with incurable, progressive d...

    Authors: Lucy E Selman, Irene J Higginson, Godfrey Agupio, Natalya Dinat, Julia Downing, Liz Gwyther, Thandi Mashao, Keletso Mmoledi, Tony Moll, Lydia Mpanga Sebuyira, Barbara Ikin and Richard Harding
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:21
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  28. To describe the health related quality of life in a population sample of postmenopausal women over the age of 50 and resident in the city of Valencia (Spain), according to the presence/absence of osteoporosis ...

    Authors: José Sanfélix-Genovés, Isabel Hurtado, Gabriel Sanfélix-Gimeno, Begoña Reig-Molla and Salvador Peiró
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:20
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  29. Within an ongoing project of the EORTC Quality of Life Group, we are developing computerized adaptive test (CAT) measures for the QLQ-C30 scales. These new CAT measures are conceptualised to reflect the same c...

    Authors: Johannes M Giesinger, Morten Aa Petersen, Mogens Groenvold, Neil K Aaronson, Juan I Arraras, Thierry Conroy, Eva M Gamper, Georg Kemmler, Madeleine T King, Anne S Oberguggenberger, Galina Velikova, Teresa Young and Bernhard Holzner
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:19
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  30. Despite the wide use of the Excited Component of the Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS-EC) in a clinical setting to assess agitated patients, a validation study to evaluate its psychometric propertie...

    Authors: Alonso Montoya, Amparo Valladares, Luis Lizán, Luis San, Rodrigo Escobar and Silvia Paz
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:18
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  31. The objective of this study is to use the pain numeric rating scale (NRS) to evaluate associations between change in pain severity and changes in sleep, function, and mood assessed via patient-reported outcome...

    Authors: Robert van Seventer, Michael Serpell, Flemming W Bach, Bart Morlion, Gergana Zlateva, Andrew G Bushmakin, Joseph C Cappelleri and Meryem Nimour
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:17
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  32. A pediatric chronic health condition not only influences a child's life, but also has impacts on parent health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and family functioning. To provide care and social support to thes...

    Authors: Ruoqing Chen, Yuantao Hao, Lifen Feng, Yingfen Zhang and Zhuoyan Huang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:16
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  33. As Thai people living with HIV/AIDS gain increasing access to antiretroviral (ARV) therapy, it is important to evaluate the impact this has not only on clinical outcomes, but also on patients' functional statu...

    Authors: Suwat Chariyalertsak, Tanyaporn Wansom, Surinda Kawichai, Cholthicha Ruangyuttikarna, Verne F Kemerer and Albert W Wu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:15
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  34. No control tools for nasal congestion (NC) are currently available in Spanish. This study aimed to adapt and validate the Congestion Quantifier Seven Item Test (CQ7) for Spain.

    Authors: Antonio Valero, Joaquim Mullol, Michael Herdman and Maria-José Rosales
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:14
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  37. During the past decade, quality of life (QoL) has become an accepted measure of disease impact, therapeutic outcome, and evaluation of interventions. So far, very little is known about the effects of community...

    Authors: Saskia PJ Verkleij, Marcel C Adriaanse, WM Monique Verschuren, Eric C Ruland, Gerrie CW Wendel-Vos and Albertine J Schuit
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:11
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  38. Over the past two decades, there has been an increasing focus on quality of life outcomes in urological diseases. Patient-reported outcomes research has relied on structured assessments that constrain interpre...

    Authors: Bradley Andrew Morganstern, Bernard Bochner, Guido Dalbagni, Ahmad Shabsigh and Bruce Rapkin
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:10
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  39. Accurate measurement of quality of life in older ICU survivors is difficult but critical for understanding the long-term impact of our treatments. Activities of daily living (ADLs) are important components of ...

    Authors: Michael T Vest, Terrence E Murphy, Katy LB Araujo and Margaret A Pisani
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:9
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  40. The evaluation of interventions and policies designed to promote resilience, and research to understand the determinants and associations, require reliable and valid measures to ensure data quality. This paper...

    Authors: Gill Windle, Kate M Bennett and Jane Noyes
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:8
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  41. To determine the impact of the quality of pre-dialysis nephrological care on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) at dialysis onset, which has not been well evaluated.

    Authors: Stephanie Boini, Luc Frimat, Michele Kessler, Serge Briançon and Nathalie Thilly
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:7
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  43. This study was conducted to establish the minimal detectable change (MDC) and clinically important differences (CIDs) of the physical category of the Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale in patients with stroke.

    Authors: Keh-chung Lin, Tiffany Fu, Ching-yi Wu and Ching-ju Hsieh
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:5
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  44. Given that the assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an essential outcome measure to optimize chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patient management, there is a need for a short and ...

    Authors: Witold Mazur, Henna Kupiainen, Janne Pitkäniemi, Maritta Kilpeläinen, Harri Sintonen, Ari Lindqvist, Vuokko L Kinnula and Tarja Laitinen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:4
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  45. Breast cancer is one of the oncological diseases in which health-related quality of life (HRQL) has been most studied. This is mainly due to its high incidence and survival. This paper seeks to: review publish...

    Authors: María Concepción Delgado-Sanz, María José García-Mendizábal, Marina Pollán, Maria João Forjaz, Gonzalo López-Abente, Nuria Aragonés and Beatriz Pérez-Gómez
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:3
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  46. Subcutaneous self-injection of medication has benefits for the patient and healthcare system, but there are barriers such as dexterity problems and injection anxiety that can prevent self-injection being used ...

    Authors: Dorothy Keininger and Geoffroy Coteur
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:2
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  47. Little is known about the life satisfaction of the person with stroke combined with their caregiver, i.e. the dyad, despite the fact that life satisfaction is an important rehabilitation outcome. The aim of th...

    Authors: Aileen L Bergström, Gunilla Eriksson, Lena von Koch and Kerstin Tham
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:1
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  48. Information on oral health-related quality of life, in addition to clinical measures, is essential for healthcare policy makers to promote oral health resources and address oral health needs.

    Authors: Nazik M Nurelhuda, Mutaz F Ahmed, Tordis A Trovik and Anne N Åstrøm
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:152
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  49. Childhood chronic disease may affect patients' and their family's functioning. Particularly parents, who play an important role in cooperation between patient and health care professionals, report impaired hea...

    Authors: Małgorzata Farnik, Grzegorz Brożek, Władysław Pierzchała, Jan E Zejda, Michał Skrzypek and Łukasz Walczak
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:151
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  50. This paper examines health-related quality of life (HRQOL) experiences and barriers facing young people who have received a liver transplant (LT). Semi-structured qualitative interviews were conducted with chi...

    Authors: David B Nicholas, Anthony R Otley, Rachel Taylor, Anil Dhawan, Susan Gilmour and Vicky Lee Ng
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:150
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