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  1. The Revised Short McGill Pain Questionnaire Version-2 (SF-MPQ-2) is a multidimensional outcome measure designed to capture, evaluate and discriminate pain from neuropathic and non-neuropathic sources. A recent...

    Authors: Samuel U. Jumbo, Joy C. MacDermid, Tara L. Packham, George S. Athwal and Kenneth J. Faber

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:365

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  2. Evaluation of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is considered an important aspect of clinical assessment and health research. Chronic Otitis Media (COM) is related to the quality of life deterioration sub...

    Authors: Ana M. Otoya-Tono, Lucía C. Pérez-Herrera, Daniel Peñaranda, Sergio Moreno-López, Ricardo Sánchez-Pedraza, Juan Manuel García, John S. Phillips and Augusto Peñaranda

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:362

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  3. Economic disruption in East Germany at the time of reunification (1990) resulted in a noticeable increase in unemployment. The present study provides data from a German cohort for over 20 years. The aim was to...

    Authors: Ernst Peter Richter, Elmar Brähler, Yve Stöbel-Richter, Markus Zenger and Hendrik Berth

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:361

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  4. We compare the reliability and validity of the Short Form 36 (version 1, SF-36) and the Short Form 12 (version 1, SF-12) in adolescence, the period of life when a child develops into an adult, i.e., the period...

    Authors: Yanwei Lin, Yulan Yu, Jiayong Zeng, Xudong Zhao and Chonghua Wan

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:360

    Content type: Research

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  5. Accurate diagnosis of carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is essential for directing appropriate treatment; and for making decisions about work injury claims. The Kamath and Stothard Questionnaire (KSQ) is a self-rep...

    Authors: Armaghan Dabbagh, Joy C. MacDermid, Tara L. Packham and Luciana G. Macedo

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:359

    Content type: Research

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  6. The transition onto dialysis is a stressful time that affects both patients and their partners. Research suggests that psychological and interpersonal characteristics within the couple are related to how well ...

    Authors: Currie Moore, Alison Wearden, Lesley-Anne Carter, Sandip Mitra and Suzanne M. Skevington

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:358

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  7. Regarding the importance of health literacy as a key factor in self-care, appropriate understanding of health information by patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is fundamental for better management o...

    Authors: Saber Gaffari-fam, Yosef Lotfi, Amin Daemi, Towhid Babazadeh, Ehsan Sarbazi, Ghader Dargahi-Abbasabad and Hamed Abri

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:357

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  8. Measurements of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among celiac disease patients using a validated questionnaire have been lacking in Slovenia. This study aims to measure HRQoL in celiac disease (CD) patie...

    Authors: Eva Turk, Dušanka Mičetić-Turk, Maja Šikić-Pogačar, Alojz Tapajner, Veljko Vlaisavljević and Valentina Prevolnik Rupel

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:356

    Content type: Research

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  9. Patient-reported outcome (PRO) instruments provide robust and effective means of evaluating patients’ treatment experience; however, none adequately cover experience using self-injection devices with enhanced ...

    Authors: Farrah Pompilus, Anna Ciesluk, Sara Strzok, Valerie Ciaravino, Kristina Harris, Boglarka Szegvari, Irina Mountian, Sophie Cleanthous and Juliette Meunier

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:355

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  10. To develop direct and indirect (response) mapping algorithms from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) and the Functional Assessm...

    Authors: Yasuhiro Hagiwara, Takeru Shiroiwa, Naruto Taira, Takuya Kawahara, Keiko Konomura, Shinichi Noto, Takashi Fukuda and Kojiro Shimozuma

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:354

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  11. The impact of different disease stages and treatment for human epidermal growth factor 2 positive (HER2-positive) breast cancer (BC) on work productivity and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is poorly un...

    Authors: Mark Verrill, Andrew M. Wardley, Jenny Retzler, Adam B. Smith, Catherine Bottomley, Sorcha Ní Dhochartaigh, Irwin Tran, Iain Leslie and Peter Schmid

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:353

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  12. To enhance and better understand health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in adolescents, it is important to study factors associated with HRQOL. The present study aimed to assess possible associations between s...

    Authors: Hilde Timenes Mikkelsen, Kristin Haraldstad, Sølvi Helseth, Siv Skarstein, Milada Cvancarova Småstuen and Gudrun Rohde

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:352

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  13. The present study evaluated how heart failure (HF) negatively impacts health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients and explored the major clinical determinants associate...

    Authors: Razvan Capota, Sebastian Militaru, Alin Alexandru Ionescu, Monica Rosca, Cristian Baicus, Bogdan Alexandru Popescu and Ruxandra Jurcut

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:351

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  14. Existing research has rarely examined an earthquake’s sustained impact and the trajectory of the earthquake survivors’ life satisfaction over time. This study aims to analyze longitudinal changes in life satis...

    Authors: Dianxi Wang and Danyang Li

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:350

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  15. The aim of this study is to investigate the reliability, validity, and responsiveness of JOACMEQ for CSM patients in mainland China.

    Authors: Feifei Zhou, Shuyang Li, Yilong Zhang, Yanbin Zhao, Kevin L. Ju, Fengshan Zhang, Shengfa Pan and Yu Sun

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:349

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  16. This study aimed at investigating the possible confounding effect of children’s gender on the parents’ dyads perception of their child HRQoL at both item and scale levels of PedsQLTM4.0 questionnaire.

    Authors: Marziyeh Doostfatemeh, Seyyed Mohammad Taghi Ayatollahi and Peyman Jafari

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:348

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  17. The use of warfarin in patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (NVAF) can be challenging. In this study, we evaluate the time in therapeutic range (TTR), health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and treat...

    Authors: Diana-Leh-Ching Ng, Natasya Marliana Bt Abdul Malik, Chee-Shee Chai, Greta-Miranda-Kim-Choo Goh, Seng-Beng Tan, Ping-Chong Bee, Gin-Gin Gan and Asri B. Said

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:347

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  18. We aimed to investigate the acceptability of imperfect health states in relation to age in Hungary and analyse its determinants. Results are contrasted to age-matched actual population health scores and to fin...

    Authors: Márta Péntek, Job van Exel, László Gulácsi, Valentin Brodszky, Zsombor Zrubka, Petra Baji, Fanni Rencz and Werner B. F. Brouwer

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:346

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  19. Single cardio-metabolic risk factors are each known modifiable risk factors for adverse health and quality of life outcomes. Yet, evidence on the clustered effect of these parameters and the metabolic syndrome...

    Authors: Paco Cerletti, Dirk Keidel, Medea Imboden, Christian Schindler and Nicole Probst-Hensch

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:345

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  20. A wide range of measuring instruments are available for diabetes self-management. According to several studies, a relatively new instrument, the diabetes self-management questionnaire (DSMQ), shows a consisten...

    Authors: Agnes Vincze, Antonia Losonczi and Adrienne Stauder

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:344

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  21. This study was focused on translation and cultural adaptation of the English Lequesne Algofunctional index (LAI) into Bengali for patients with primary knee osteoarthritis (OA) and testing reliability and vali...

    Authors: Tarek Mahmood, Minhaj Rahim Choudhury, Md Nazrul Islam, Syed Atiqul Haq, Md Abu Shahin, Syed Mohammad Monowar Ali, Shamim Ahmed, Md. Nahiduzzamane Shazzad, A. T. M. Tanveer Hasan, Mohammad Abul Kalam Azad and Johannes Jacobus Rasker

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:343

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  23. No studies have investigated the association between self-rated health (SRH) and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP) levels in South Koreans. We explored this association and analyzed differences betw...

    Authors: Se-Won Park, Seong-Sik Park, Eun-Jung Kim, Won-Suk Sung, In-Hyuk Ha and Boyoung Jung

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:341

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  24. The Older people Quality of Life-7 domains (OQoL-7) is a 28-item multidimensional questionnaire developed to measure community-dwelling older people’s QoL. The OQoL-7 assesses both importance of and satisfacti...

    Authors: Yves Henchoz, Christophe Büla, Idris Guessous, René Goy, Marc Dupuis and Brigitte Santos-Eggimann

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:340

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  25. To explore the association of academic performance and general health status with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in school-aged children and adolescents in China.

    Authors: Shengxiang Qi, Zhenzhen Qin, Na Wang, Lap Ah Tse, Huifen Qiao and Fei Xu

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:339

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  27. Health related quality of life (HRQOL) is a potent indicator of individual’s happiness and life satisfaction. The way in which the HRQOL is affected by the diet is a topic of constant interest and debate among...

    Authors: Mahdi Vajdi and Mahdieh Abbasalizad Farhangi

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:337

    Content type: Research

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  28. The Severe Asthma Questionnaire (SAQ) is a health related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaire validated for use in severe asthma. It is scored using the mean value of 16 items (SAQ score) in addition to a si...

    Authors: Joseph W. Lanario, Michael E. Hyland, Andrew Menzies-Gow, Adel H. Mansur, James W. Dodd, Stephen J. Fowler, Rupert C. Jones and Matthew Masoli

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:336

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  29. The Harris Hip Score is the most widely used outcome measure for the assessment of hip pathologies. An official Slovenian version has not been culturally adapted and validated. The aim of this study was to cre...

    Authors: Petra Josipović, Metka Moharič and Dea Salamon

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:335

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  30. Health-related quality of life (HRQL) in interstitial lung disease (ILD) patients is impaired. We aimed to identify baseline predictors for HRQL decline within a 12-month observation period.

    Authors: Phillen Nozibuyiso Maqhuzu, Boglarka L. Szentes, Michael Kreuter, Thomas Bahmer, Nicolas Kahn, Martin Claussen, Rolf Holle and Larissa Schwarzkopf

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:334

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  32. The study aims to present Slovenian EQ-5D-5L population norms for different age and gender subgroups that can be used as reference values in future studies concerning health status. The secondary aim is to com...

    Authors: Valentina Prevolnik Rupel and Marko Ogorevc

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:333

    Content type: Research

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  33. When curative treatments are no longer available for cancer patients, the aim of treatment is palliative. The emphasis of palliative care is on optimizing quality of life and provided support for patients near...

    Authors: Elham Akhlaghi, Rebecca H. Lehto, Mohsen Torabikhah, Hamid Sharif Nia, Ahmad Taheri, Ehsan Zaboli and Ameneh Yaghoobzadeh

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:332

    Content type: Review

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  34. Physicians and Standardised Residency Training physicians (SRTPs) have relatively high exposure to psychological violence. Its adverse effects are far greater than those of physical violence. However, no previ...

    Authors: Huiying Fang, Lifeng Wei, Jingfu Mao, Haonan Jia, Peng Li, Yuze Li, Yapeng Fu, Siqi Zhao, He Liu, Kexin Jiang, Mingli Jiao, Hong Qiao and Qunhong Wu

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:330

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  35. To determine the impact of non-cardiovascular comorbidities on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF).

    Authors: Josep Comín-Colet, Teresa Martín Lorenzo, Almudena González-Domínguez, Juan Oliva and Silvia Jiménez Merino

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:329

    Content type: Review

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  36. The Exercise Adherence Rating Scale (EARS) is a commonly used outcome tool, which helps to identify the adherence rate of exercises and reasons for adherence and non-adherence. There is no evidence of the avai...

    Authors: Shambhu P. Adhikari, Rubee Dev and Jayana N. Shrestha

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:328

    Content type: Research

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  37. Quality of life (QoL) is a multi-dimensional concept and its assessment is one of important themes of care for older people. Assessing QoL in older people needs specific scales. The aim of this study was to cu...

    Authors: Awat Feizi and Zahra Heidari

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:327

    Content type: Research

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  38. There has been considerable interest in using the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT), developed in England, to measure quality-of-life outcomes of long-term care (LTC-QoL) service provision in national...

    Authors: Birgit Trukeschitz, Judith Litschauer, Assma Hajji, Judith Kieninger, Adiam Schoch, Juliette Malley, Stacey Rand, Ismo Linnosmaa and Julien Forder

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:326

    Content type: Research

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  39. The study was performed to evaluate the association between socio-demographic factors on the one hand, and quality of life and illness acceptance on the other, in pregnant women with hyperglycemia.

    Authors: Grażyna Iwanowicz-Palus, Marta Zarajczyk and Agnieszka Bień

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:325

    Content type: Research

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  40. With the widespread clinical application of the five-level version of the EuroQol five-dimensional questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L), whether the questionnaire scores are responsive to changes in patients’ health and h...

    Authors: Xin Hu, Mingxia Jing, Mei Zhang, Ping Yang and Xiaolong Yan

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:324

    Content type: Research

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  41. Instrumental Activities of Daily Living (IADL) limitations are associated with reduced health-related quality of life for people with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). For these people, the assessment of IADL i...

    Authors: Marina Bruderer-Hofstetter, Mark A. Dubbelman, André Meichtry, Florian Koehn, Thomas Münzer, Roos J. Jutten, Philip Scheltens, Sietske A. M. Sikkes and Karin Niedermann

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:323

    Content type: Research

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  42. HIV-related stigma, or the degree to which people living with HIV endorse negative stereotypes associated with HIV, is associated with poor continuum of care outcomes. We translated the 12-item Short HIV Stigm...

    Authors: Paula M. Luz, Thiago S. Torres, Celline C. Almeida-Brasil, Luana M. S. Marins, Daniel R. B. Bezerra, Valdilea G. Veloso, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Daphna Harel and Brett D. Thombs

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:322

    Content type: Research

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  43. In a time of ageing populations, examination of the ability of multimorbid patients to achieve well-being has become increasingly important. Social production function theory is used to characterise people’s a...

    Authors: Anna Petra Nieboer and Jane Murray Cramm

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:321

    Content type: Research

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  44. Rehabilitation care for patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain (CMP) is not optimally organized. The Network Pain Rehabilitation Limburg 2.0 (NPRL2.0) provides integrated care with a biopsychosocial approa...

    Authors: Cynthia Lamper, Ivan P. J. Huijnen, Mariëlle E. J. B. Goossens, Bjorn Winkens, Dirk Ruwaard, Jeanine A. M. C. F. Verbunt and Mariëlle E. Kroese

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:320

    Content type: Study protocol

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  45. There is a lack of evidence with regards to the association between both maternal and child dental anxiety and the mother’s perception of her child’s oral health-related quality of life (COHRQoL). The aim of t...

    Authors: Rashidah Esa, Marhazlinda Jamaludin and Zamros Yuzadi Mohd Yusof

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:319

    Content type: Research

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  46. This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of negative impacts of oral health conditions on the quality of life of quilombola and non-quilombola rural adolescents and identify associated factors.

    Authors: Etna Kaliane Pereira da Silva and Danielle Souto de Medeiros

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:318

    Content type: Research

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  47. The EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L are two generic health-related quality of life measures, which may be used in clinical and health economic research. They measure impairment in 5 aspects of health: mobility, self-car...

    Authors: Arjun Bhadhuri, Paul Kind, Paola Salari, Katharina Tabea Jungo, Benoît Boland, Stephen Byrne, Stefanie Hossmann, Olivia Dalleur, Wilma Knol, Elisavet Moutzouri, Denis O’Mahony, Kevin D. Murphy, Linda Wisselink, Nicolas Rodondi and Matthias Schwenkglenks

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:317

    Content type: Research

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  48. The aim of this study was to adapt the instrument and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Swedish version of the Swallowing Quality of Care questionnaire (S-SWAL-CARE) in patients with oropharyngeal dy...

    Authors: Johanna Hedström, Mia Johansson, Caroline Olsson, Lisa Tuomi and Caterina Finizia

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:316

    Content type: Research

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  49. Data on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) can be used to track health disparities, assess the impact of chronic diseases, and predict mortality. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s “Healthy D...

    Authors: Sarah E. Dumas, Tenzin Yangchen Dongchung, Michael L. Sanderson, Katherine Bartley and Amber Levanon Seligson

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:315

    Content type: Research

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  50. Endometriosis is one of the most common causes of infertility. The causes of the disease and its definitive treatments are still unclear. Moreover, Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH) is a glycoprotein dimer that is ...

    Authors: Anisodowleh Nankali, Mohsen Kazeminia, Parnian Kord Jamshidi, Shamarina Shohaimi, Nader Salari, Masoud Mohammadi and Amin Hosseinian-Far

    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2020 18:314

    Content type: Research

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