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  1. Infertility and its treatment have negative impacts on a couple’s marital relationship, sexual life, psychological state and interpersonal relationships, causing personal distress. Health-related quality of li...

    Authors: Zhao Shi, Zhuxin Mao, Hongwei Nie, Ling Geng, Gang Chen and Shunping Li
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:54
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  2. Epilepsy is one of the most common chronic neurological diseases that adversely impact the quality of life of patients and their families. The “Quality of Life of Childhood Epilepsy Questionnaire” (hereinafter...

    Authors: Ping Tang, Qunfeng Lu, Yinghui Wu, Lin Wang, Wenjuan Tang, Yan Jiang, Liling Yang, Jianlin Ji, Xiaomin Sun, Jingmin Sun and Jie Yang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:52
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  3. Asthma impacts children’s physical, emotional, and psychosocial Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL). The EQ-5D-Y is a generic econometric instrument developed to measure HRQL in children.

    Authors: Karina Mayoral, Olatz Garin, Catalina Lizano-Barrantes, Angels Pont, Araceli M. Caballero-Rabasco, Manuel Praena-Crespo, Laura Valdesoiro-Navarrete, María Teresa Guerra, José Antonio Castillo, Inés de Mir, Eva Tato, Jordi Alonso, Vicky Serra-Sutton, Yolanda Pardo and Montse Ferrer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:51
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  4. Recent studies have reported gender differences in adolescents’ health-related quality of life (HRQOL), with females scoring significantly lower than males. Researchers have identified the female puberty proce...

    Authors: Hyunjeong Shin, Songi Jeon and Inhae Cho
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:50
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  5. Individuals born small for gestational age (SGA) have an increased risk of several adverse health outcomes, but their health-related quality of life (HRQoL) across young adulthood has yet to be studied. The ma...

    Authors: Cathrin Vano Mehl, Ingrid Marie Husby Hollund, Johanne Marie Iversen, Stian Lydersen, Paul Jarle Mork, Eero Kajantie and Kari Anne I. Evensen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:49
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  6. End-of-life care decision-making has become important to support dignity and quality of life for patients who are facing death in Korea, along with the enactment of the Life-Sustaining Treatment Act in 2018. H...

    Authors: Shinmi Kim, Insook Lee, Sun-Woo Hong and Su-Jin Koh
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:48
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  7. Everyday functioning is a clinically relevant concept in dementia, yet little is known about the clinical meaningfulness of scores on functional outcome measures. We aimed to establish clinically meaningful sc...

    Authors: Mark A. Dubbelman, Caroline B. Terwee, Merike Verrijp, Leonie N. C. Visser, Philip Scheltens and Sietske A. M. Sikkes
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:47
    Content type: Brief Report Published on:

  8. Advanced medical technologies can prolong life of stroke survivors. Dynamic change of health outcomes provides essential information to manage stroke. Mathematical models, to extrapolate health status over a l...

    Authors: Nipaporn Butsing, Mathuros Tipayamongkholgul, Jung-Der Wang and Disya Ratanakorn
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:46
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:72

  9. Oral health-related problems are highly prevalent and, like many other diseases, affect Quality of Life. Although most primary schools in Fiji have supervised school brushing programs and have regular screenin...

    Authors: Anumala Ram, Masoud Mohammadnezhad, Tamara Mangum and Brian Mangum
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:45
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  10. Nurses are known to have negative health outcomes related to their work. While it is acknowledged that nursing work is associated with things like back injuries and burnout, there is limited evidence as to wha...

    Authors: Leah Adeline Phillips, Nyla de Los Santos, Henry Ntanda and Jennifer Jackson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:44
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  11. The proportion of the world population aged over 65 years is increasing in the world population. Quality of life is an important factor in the biopsychosocial management of older patients. The Older People’s Q...

    Authors: Sophie Carrard, Claudia Mooser, Roger Hilfiker and Anne-Gabrielle Mittaz Hager
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:43
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  12. Stigma is one of the most significant constraints on people living with depression. There is a lack of validated scales in Portugal to measure depression stigma; therefore, the Depression Stigma Scale (DSS) is...

    Authors: Virgínia Conceição, Inês Rothes, Milton Severo, Kathleen Griffiths, Ulrich Hegerl and Ricardo Gusmão
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:42
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  14. Loneliness and social isolation are increasingly recognised as global public health threats, meaning that reliable and valid measures are needed to monitor these conditions at a population level. We aimed to d...

    Authors: Karine E. Manera, Ben J. Smith, Katherine B. Owen, Philayrath Phongsavan and Michelle H. Lim
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:40
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:109

  15. Hypertension is a highly prevalent condition, with optimal treatment to BP targets conferring significant gains in terms of cardiovascular outcomes. Understanding why some patients do not achieve BP targets wo...

    Authors: Andrew N. Jordan, Christine Anning, Lindsay Wilkes, Claire Ball, Nicola Pamphilon, Christopher E. Clark, Nicholas G. Bellenger, Angela C. Shore, Andrew S. P. Sharp and Jose M. Valderas
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:39
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  16. Extensive studies have confirmed social support as a critical protective factor of people’s health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and subjective well-being (SWB). However, health promoting behaviors as a pote...

    Authors: Phoenix K. H. Mo, Eliza L. Y. Wong, Nelson C. Y. Yeung, Samuel Y. S. Wong, Roger Y. Chung, Alan C. Y. Tong, Chris C. Y. Ko, Jia Li and Eng-kiong Yeoh
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:38
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  17. Earthquakes are global natural disasters and can cause loss of property, livelihood and affect human health. A 5.4 magnitude earthquake, the Pohang earthquake, occurred in South Korea in 2017. In this study, b...

    Authors: Eun-Mi Kim, Gwang Suk Kim, Heejung Kim, Chang Gi Park, Ogcheol Lee and Betty Pfefferbaum
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:37
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  18. To describe the reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) patients and their caregiver burden and to present its relationship with disease progression.

    Authors: Valeska Andreozzi, Pedro Labisa, Melina Mota, Susana Monteiro, Rita Alves, João Almeida, Björn Vandewalle, Jorge Felix, Katharina Buesch, Hugo Canhão and Igor Beitia Ortiz de Zarate
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:36
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  20. Aerobic exercise is an important part of obesity treatment and may improve health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The objective of this study was to compare the effect of two different exercise programs on he...

    Authors: Jarle Berge, Jøran Hjelmesæth, Ronette L. Kolotkin, Øyvind Støren, Solfrid Bratland-Sanda, Jens Kristoffer Hertel, Espen Gjevestad, Milada Cvancarova Småstuen, Jan Helgerud and Tomm Bernklev
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:34
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  21. The Pediatric Quality of Life™ 3.0 Neuromuscular Module is an instrument to assess health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among children with neuromuscular diseases (NMDs) aged 2–18 years. This study aimed to ...

    Authors: Guswan Wiwaha, Dian M. Sari, Vitriana Biben, Deni K. Sunjaya and Dany Hilmanto
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:33
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  22. Authors: Mohammadreza Davoudi, Parnian Rezaei, Fereshteh Rajaeiramsheh, Seyed Majid Ahmadi and Amir Abbas Taheri
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:32
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2021 19:49

  23. The combined effect of sleep quality and night sleep duration on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) remains unclear, especially in resource-limited countries and areas. This study aimed to explore the inde...

    Authors: Wei Liao, Xiaotian Liu, Ning Kang, Lulu Wang, Zhihan Zhai, Jing Yang, Xueyan Wu, Yongxia Mei, Shengxiang Sang, Chongjian Wang and Yuqian Li
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:31
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  24. The Swedish version of the patient-reported Clinical Outcomes in Routine Evaluation Outcome Measures (CORE-OM) has demonstrated high reliability and acceptable convergent validity in explanatory factor analyse...

    Authors: Louise Danielsson, Magnus L. Elfström, Javier Galan Henche and Jeanette Melin
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:30
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  25. The aim of this study was to evaluate the care-related quality of life in caregivers of breast cancer patients, to assess its association with breast cancer patients’ health-related quality of life (HRQoL), an...

    Authors: Marloes E. Clarijs, Arvind Oemrawsingh, Mirelle E. E. Bröker, Cornelis Verhoef, Hester Lingsma and Linetta B. Koppert
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:29
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:114

  26. The aim of this study is a head-to-head comparison of the instrument performance and responsiveness of the EQ-5D-Y-3L and the expanded English version of the EQ-5D-Y-5L in children/adolescents receiving acute ...

    Authors: Janine Verstraete, Zara Marthinus, Stewart Dix-Peek and Des Scott
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:28
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  27. Self-efficacy is a significant predictor of return to work and affects the confidence of survivors to return to work after illness. The Return-to-work self-efficacy (RTW-SE) questionnaire is a self-report ques...

    Authors: Feng Liu, Zhenxiang Zhang, Beilei Lin, Zhiguang Ping and Yongxia Mei
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:27
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  28. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is an important element of patient care and clinical research. The aim of this study was to describe HRQoL changes and identify associated factors during a 6-month follow...

    Authors: Melexima Simirea, Cédric Baumann, Michael Bisch, Hélène Rousseau, Paolo Di Patrizio, Sarah Viennet and Stéphanie Bourion-Bédès
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:26
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  29. There is a significant global burden of herpes simplex virus (HSV) related genital ulcer disease yet little is known about its impact on quality of life. This systematic review aimed to identify studies that q...

    Authors: Angela Devine, Xiuqin Xiong, Sami Lynne Gottlieb, Maeve Britto de Mello, Christopher K. Fairley and Jason J. Ong
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:25
    Content type: Review Published on:

  30. Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has a direct association with increased morbidity and mortality among end stage renal disease patients. Valid and reliable instruments to measure the HRQOL of patients wi...

    Authors: Mignote Hailu Gebrie, Hussen Mekonnen Asfaw, Workagegnehu Hailu Bilchut, Helena Lindgren and Lena Wettergren
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:24
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  31. Patients with liver cirrhosis suffer from significantly reduced health-related quality of life and are often dependent on support from caregivers. In this context, caregivers often suffer from impaired quality...

    Authors: Michael Nagel, Vanessa Weidner, Sina Schulz, Jens U. Marquardt, Peter R. Galle, Jörn M. Schattenberg, Marc Nguyen-Tat, Marcus-Alexander Wörns and Christian Labenz
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:23
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  32. Late-life experiences such as protracted and indisposing medical disorders can negatively impact older adults’ psychological and mental health, making them vulnerable to depression. Majority of the assessment ...

    Authors: Ukamaka Gloria Mgbeojedo, Christopher Olusanjo Akosile, Juliet Chidera Ezugwu, Emmanuel Chiebuka Okoye, Jeneviv Nene John, Kenneth Umezulike Ani and Obinna Chinedu Okezue
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:22
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  33. The Coronary Revascularisation Outcome Questionnaire (CROQ) measures health-related quality of life and outcome of invasive revascularization procedures such as percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coro...

    Authors: Ingvild Nordnes Myrbakk, Oddgeir Friborg, Anne Høye, Terje Steigen and Svein Bergvik
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:21
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  34. Response Shift (RS) refers to the idea that an individual may undergo changes in its health-related quality of life (HRQOL). If internal standard, values, or reconceptualization of HRQOL change over time, then...

    Authors: Estelina Ortega-Gómez, Purificación Vicente-Galindo, Helena Martín-Rodero and Purificación Galindo-Villardón
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:20
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  35. Few studies have investigated the association between social capital and quality of life (QoL) among stroke patients. To address this research gap, we aimed to explore the association between social capital an...

    Authors: Kai Ji, Zhongliang Bai, Yan Zhao, Lingzhi Sang, Danni Wang and Ren Chen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:19
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  36. This study develops an adolescent value set for a child-centred dental caries-specific measure of oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) based upon CARIES-QC (Caries Impacts and Experiences Questionnaire...

    Authors: H. J. Rogers, J. Sagabiel, Z. Marshman, H. D. Rodd and D. Rowen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:18
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  37. The Work Role Functioning Questionnaire 2.0 (WRFQ 2.0) is an instrument that measures the difficulties perceived by workers in meeting work demands, given their physical or emotional health, but it has not yet...

    Authors: Josane Soares Pinto Melo, Almir Vieira Dibai-Filho, Adriana Sousa Rêgo, Daniel Santos Rocha, Isabel Aparecida Porcatti de Walsh, Rudys Rodolfo de Jesus Tavarez, Maria Claudia Gonçalves, Karen Larissa Brito Damasceno, Cid André Fidelis de Paula Gomes and Daniela Bassi-Dibai
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:17
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  38. Despite the importance of assessing COVID-19 patients' educational needs, there is currently no standard tool for a comprehensive assessment of these needs. The present study was aimed at developing a question...

    Authors: Reza Hajialibeigloo, Yaser Moradi, Hossein Habibzadeh, Rahim Baghaei, Vahid Alinejad and Mohammad Namazi Nia
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:16
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  39. Quality of life (QoL) is one of the treatment outcome measures in patients with breast cancer. In this study, we measured the QoL of women with breast cancer at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (U...

    Authors: Jamilah Yusoff, Aniza Ismail, Mohd Rizal Abd Manaf, Fuad Ismail, Norlia Abdullah, Rohaizak Muhammad, Shahrun Niza Abdullah Suhaimi and Reena Rahayu Mat Zin
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:15
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  40. To develop an EQ-5D-3L social value set based on Chinese rural population’s preferences using the time trade-off (TTO) method, and to compare the differences in preferences on health states between China urban...

    Authors: Gordon G. Liu, Haijing Guan, Xuejing Jin, Han Zhang, Samantha A. Vortherms and Hongyan Wu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:14
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  42. Selection of appropriate trial endpoints and outcome measures is particularly important in rare disease and rapidly progressing disease such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) where the challenges to condu...

    Authors: Susan L. Hartmaier, Thomas Rhodes, Suzanne F. Cook, Courtney Schlusser, Chao Chen, Steve Han, Neta Zach, Venkatesha Murthy and Shreya Davé
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:12
    Content type: Review Published on:

  43. Mothers and other primary caregivers play a crucial role in looking after perinatally HIV infected, and HIV exposed uninfected adolescents in sub-Saharan Africa. Day- to-day caregiving in the context of limite...

    Authors: Patrick N. Mwangala, Derrick Ssewanyana, Paul Mwangi, Esther Chongwo, Carophine Nasambu, Vincent A. Kagonya, Gaia Scerif, Charles R. Newton and Amina Abubakar
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:11
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  44. Evidence of how social factors affect the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of Ebola virus disease (EVD) survivors is limited. Our study explores the association between socio-demographic, health-related ...

    Authors: Peter Bai James, Jon Wardle, Razak M. Gyasi, Amie Steel, Jon Adams, John Alimamy Kabba, Abdulai Jawo Bah, Michael Lahai and Eugene B. Conteh
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:10
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  45. Little is known about depression and anxiety among paediatric intracranial germ cell tumour (iGCT) survivors. We aimed to evaluate the risk factors associated with depression, anxiety and health-related qualit...

    Authors: Wenyi Lv, Bo Li, Jin Feng, Li Chen, Xiaoguang Qiu and Shuai Liu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:9
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  46. Patients with noncardiac chest pain (NCCP) report more severe symptoms and lowered health-related quality of life when they present with comorbid panic disorder (PD). Although generalized anxiety disorder (GAD...

    Authors: Stéphanie Hamel, Isabelle Denis, Stéphane Turcotte, Richard Fleet, Patrick Archambault, Clermont E. Dionne and Guillaume Foldes-Busque
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:7
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  47. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) is an aggressive medical procedure which significantly impacts the shared emotional well-being of patients and family caregivers (FC). Prior work has highlighted ...

    Authors: Timothy S. Sannes, Krista W. Ranby, Miryam Yusufov, Benjamin W. Brewer, Jamie M. Jacobs, Stephanie Callan, Gillian R. Ulrich, Nicole A. Pensak, Crystal Natvig and Mark L. Laudenslager
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:6
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  48. To identify and assess the psychometric properties of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in people living with HIV (PLWH).

    Authors: Huan Wen, Zhongfang Yang, Zheng Zhu, Shuyu Han, Lin Zhang and Yan Hu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:5
    Content type: Review Published on:

  49. Clinician time and resources may be underutilised if the treatment they offer does not match patient expectations and attitudes. We developed a questionnaire (AxEL-Q) to guide clinicians toward elements of fir...

    Authors: Edel T. O’Hagan, Ian W. Skinner, Matthew D. Jones, Emma L. Karran, Adrian C. Traeger, Aidan G. Cashin, Benedict M. Wand, Siobhan M. Schabrun, Sean O’Neill, Ian A. Harris and James H. McAuley
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:4
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  50. Fatigue is a frequent complaint amongst children and adolescents with obesity, and it interferes with adherence to dietary and exercise regimes that could reduce obesity. The present study evaluated the effect...

    Authors: Matthew F. Smout, Gian Mauro Manzoni, Sofia Tamini, Nicoletta Marazzi, Alessandra De Col, Giada Pietrabissa, Gianluca Castelnuovo, Enrico Molinari and Alessandro Sartorio
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:3
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