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  1. In recent decades, 95% of children with congenital heart disease (CHD) can survive to adolescence and adulthood. However, adolescents with CHD are prone to poorer health-related quality of life (HRQoL). It is ...

    Authors: Yong-Chen Huang, Yueh-Chih Chen, Bih-Shya Gau, Jou-Kou Wang, Shu-Hui Chang and Hsiao-Ling Yang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:39
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  2. Insulin therapy can be inconvenient, painful, burdensome, and restrict patients' daily activities and health related quality of life (HRQOL) due to improper injection techniques or the nature of administration.

    Authors: Zenebe Negash, Aklasiya Tadiwos, Eliyas Mulatu Urgessa, Gebremedhin Beedemariam Gebretekle, Ephrem Abebe and Atalay Mulu Fentie
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:38
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  3. Quality of life questionnaires are often used in the assessment of rehabilitation of hearing-impaired patients with a cochlear implant. However, a prospective study with a systematic retrospective evaluation o...

    Authors: Ioana Tereza Brill, Thomas Stark, Lillian Wigers and Stefan Michael Brill
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:37
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  4. Measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) enables identification of treatment-related side effects of a disease. Such aspects may negatively impact on patients’ lives and should be taken into consi...

    Authors: Mignote Hailu Gebrie, Hussen Mekonnen Asfaw, Workagegnehu Hailu Bilchut, Helena Lindgren and Lena Wettergren
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:36
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  5. The EQ-5D is a commonly used generic measure of health but evidence on its responsiveness to change in mental health is limited. This study aimed to explore the responsiveness of the five-level version of the ...

    Authors: Kenneth Sandin, Gemma Shields, Ragne G.H. Gjengedal, Kåre Osnes, Marianne T. Bjørndal, Silje E. Reme and Odin Hjemdal
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:35
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  6. The EQ VAS component of the EQ-5D questionnaire has been used to assess patients’ valuation of their own health besides its use for self-reporting of overall health status. The objective of the present study w...

    Authors: Fitsum Sebsibe Teni, Kristina Burström, Nancy Devlin, David Parkin and Ola Rolfson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:34
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  7. In this study, the prognostic value of AF-related quality of life (AFEQT) at baseline on Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events (MACE) and improvement of perceived symptoms (EHRA) was assessed. Furthermore, the r...

    Authors: Luc J.H.J. Theunissen, Jeroen A.A. van de Pol, Gijs J. van Steenbergen, Henricus-Paul Cremers, Dennis van Veghel, Pepijn H. van der Voort, Peter E. Polak, Sylvie F.A.M.S. de Jong, Jaap Seelig, Geert Smits, Hareld M.C. Kemps and Lukas R.C. Dekker
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:33
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  8. Obesity can be a significant challenge to health and quality of life (QoL). Bariatric surgery assists with weight loss and may help improve QoL. However, not all patients benefit from surgery. Personality trai...

    Authors: Sarah Summerville, Emma Kirwan, Angelina R. Sutin, Donal Fortune and Páraic S. O’Súilleabháin
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:32
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  9. Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) can be obtained outside hospitals and are of great significance for evaluation of patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). The aim of this study was to establish a prediction...

    Authors: Jing Tian, Jingjing Yan, Gangfei Han, Yutao Du, Xiaojuan Hu, Zixuan He, Qinghua Han and Yanbo Zhang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:31
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  10. The public health and economic implications of perinatal mental health problems are well documented. Maternity clinicians are ideally placed to effectively identify women at risk and facilitate early intervent...

    Authors: Lu Lin, Huimin Guo, Qian Fang, Colin R. Martin, Aiying Jin, Congyan Xie, Li Tian and Julie Jomeen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:30
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  11. Patient-centred measures to capture symptoms and concerns have rarely been reported in severe COVID. We adapted and tested the measurement properties of the proxy version of the Integrated Palliative care Outc...

    Authors: Mevhibe B. Hocaoglu, Fliss E. M. Murtagh, Catherine Walshe, Rachel L. Chambers, Matthew Maddocks, Katherine E. Sleeman, Adejoke O. Oluyase, Lesley Dunleavy, Andy Bradshaw, Sabrina Bajwah, Lorna K. Fraser, Nancy Preston and Irene J. Higginson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:29
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  12. After the acute phase, symptoms or sequelae related to post-COVID-19 syndrome may persist for months. In a population of patients, previously hospitalized and not, followed up to 12 months after the acute infe...

    Authors: Ilaria Mastrorosa, Giulia Del Duca, Carmela Pinnetti, Patrizia Lorenzini, Alessandra Vergori, Anna Clelia Brita, Marta Camici, Valentina Mazzotta, Francesco Baldini, Pierangelo Chinello, Paola Mencarini, Maria Letizia Giancola, Amina Abdeddaim, Enrico Girardi, Francesco Vaia and Andrea Antinori
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:28
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  13. Over the past few decades the benefits of assessing Quality of Life (QoL) and mental health in patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) have steadily increased with limited studies relating to the most us...

    Authors: Owiss Alzahrani, John P. Fletcher and Kerry Hitos
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:27
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  14. Oral conditions remain a substantial population health challenge worldwide. Poor oral health affects the quality of life as a result of pain or discomfort, tooth loss, impaired oral functioning, disfigurement,...

    Authors: Amare Teshome Tefera, Biruk Girma, Aynishet Adane, Abebe Muche, Tadesse Awoke Ayele, Kefyalew Ayalew Getahun, Zelallem Aniley, Semira Ali and Simegnew Handebo
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:26
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  15. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between the Short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) and EQ-5D-5L and compare their psychometric properties in 4 chronic conditions in ...

    Authors: Yanming Hong, Xinru Jiang, Tiantian Zhang, Nan Luo and Zhihao Yang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:25
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  16. Joint arthroplasty registries have incorporated patient-reported outcomes (PROs) to evaluate outcomes from a patients’ perspective to improve total hip arthroplasty (THA). To draw valid conclusions on PROs, a ...

    Authors: Yvette Pronk, Walter van der Weegen, Berend Willem Schreurs and Peter Pilot
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:24
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  18. Sub-health which is the state between health and disease is a major global public health challenge. As a reversible stage, sub-health can work as a effective tool for the early detection or prevention of chron...

    Authors: Yueyue Liu, Chuchuan Wan and Xiaoyu Xi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:22
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  19. Food insecurity is associated with worse general health rating, but little research exists investigating whether there is a dose response relationship across levels of food security and mental and physical hea...

    Authors: Sanjay Bhandari, Jennifer A. Campbell, Rebekah J. Walker, Abigail Thorgerson, Aprill Z. Dawson and Leonard E. Egede
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:21
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  20. Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) causes significant morbidity and mortality in older adults. Despite a number of RSV vaccine candidates in clinical trials, there are no existing disease-specific, self-reporte...

    Authors: Carla (DeMuro) Romano, Lyn Finelli, Sandy Lewis, Valerie Williams, Emily Martin, Matthew Phillips, Todd L. Saretsky and Josephine Norquist
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:20
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  22. In the field of neurorehabilitation, robot-assisted therapy (RAT) and virtual reality (VR) have so far shown promising evidence on multiple motor and functional outcomes. The related effectiveness on patients’...

    Authors: Francesco Zanatta, Naima Z. Farhane-Medina, Roberta Adorni, Patrizia Steca, Anna Giardini, Marco D’Addario and Antonia Pierobon
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:18
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  23. The EQ-5D-5L and 15D are generic preference-accompanied health status measures with similar dimensions. In this study, we aim to compare the measurement properties of the EQ-5D-5L and 15D descriptive systems a...

    Authors: Anna Nikl, Mathieu F. Janssen, Valentin Brodszky and Fanni Rencz
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:17
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  24. Authors: Amberly Brigden, Roxanne M Parslow, Daisy Gaunt, Simon M Collin, Andy Jones and Esther Crawley
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:16
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    The original article was published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2018 16:202

  25. Patients with advanced cancer suffer significant decline of their psychological state. A rapid and reliable evaluation of this state is essential to detect and treat it and improve quality of life. The aim was...

    Authors: Adán Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Raquel Hernández, Patricia Cruz-Castellanos, Ana Fernández-Montes, Oscar Castillo-Trujillo, María M. Muñoz, Juana M. Cano-Cano, María J. Corral, Emilio Esteban, Paula Jiménez-Fonseca and Caterina Calderon
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:15
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  26. Despite the advances in the treatment of HIV, people living with HIV (PLHIV) still experience impairment of health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The aim of the study was to explore factors associated with H...

    Authors: Vegard Skogen, Gudrun E. Rohde, Ranveig Langseth, Ole Rysstad, Tore Sørlie and Birgit Lie
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:14
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  27. This paper presents a novel methodology for translation and cross-cultural adaptation of health-related quality-of-life patient-reported outcome measures, incorporating the Delphi method. Specifically, we desc...

    Authors: Catherine J. P. Teig, Malcolm J. Bond, Margreth Grotle, Møyfrid Kjøllesdal, Susan Saga, Milada S. Cvancarova, Marie A. Ellström Engh and Angelita Martini
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:13
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  28. Quality of life (QoL) of people with dementia (PwD) is an important indicator of quality of care. Studying the impact of acute hospital settings on PwD’s QoL requires assessment instruments that consider envir...

    Authors: Daniel Lüdecke, Martin Nikolaus Dichter, Stefan Nickel and Christopher Kofahl
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:12
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  29. Prostate cancer (PCa) and obesity are two ever-increasing public health issues that can independently impair the quality of life (QOL) of affected patients. Our objective was to evaluate the impact of overweig...

    Authors: Léonard Depotte, Maryline Caroux, Joseph Gligorov, Florence Canouï-Poitrine, Yazid Belkacemi, Alexandre De La Taille, Christophe Tournigand and Emmanuelle Kempf
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:11
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  30. Childhood cancer negatively impacts a child's physical, mental, and behavioural health and significantly affects their health-related quality of life. The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 Generic Core S...

    Authors: Tenaw Gualu Melesse, Janita Pak Chun Chau, William Ho Cheung Li, Kai Chow Choi, Mulugeta Ayalew Yimer and Abdulkadir Mohamed Said Gidey
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:10
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  31. The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Cognitive Function (FACT-Cog) evaluates perceived cognitive functioning and their impact on quality of life. This study was designed to evaluate the factors associat...

    Authors: Mariam Hassan, Zainab Barakat, Youssef Fares and Linda Abou-Abbas
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:9
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  32. There is increasing interest in the validation of pediatric preference-based health-related quality of life measurement instruments. It is critical that children with various degrees of health-related quality ...

    Authors: Xiuqin Xiong, Kim Dalziel, Li Huang, Brendan Mulhern and Natalie Carvalho
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:8
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  33. The stroke-specific quality of life 2.0 (SSQOL 2.0) scale is a valid, reliable instrument which has been widely used as a patients reported outcome measure among stroke survivors. However, the SSQOL scale has ...

    Authors: Dechasa Imiru Wayessa, Mulugeta Bayisa Chala, Solomon Fasika Demissie, Abey Bekele Abebe, Balamurugan Janakiraman, Sisay Deme and Moges Gashaw
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:7
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  34. Subjectively assessing health related quality of life (HRQoL) in children and adolescents is increasingly important in the public health field. One valid and widely used generic HRQoL instrument is the KIDSCRE...

    Authors: Eva-Grethe Befus, Sølvi Helseth, Eirin Mølland, Thomas Westergren, Liv Fegran and Kristin Haraldstad
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:6
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  35. Comorbid mental health conditions are common in people with epilepsy and have a significant negative impact on important epilepsy outcomes, although the evidence is mostly from high-income countries. This syst...

    Authors: Ruth Tsigebrhan, Andualem Derese, Symon M. Kariuki, Abebaw Fekadu, Girmay Medhin, Charles R. Newton, Martin J. Prince and Charlotte Hanlon
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:5
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  37. In clinical studies, the EQ-5D-5L is often employed with disease-specific health-related quality of life instruments. The questions in the former are more general than the latter; however, it is known that res...

    Authors: Shoki Izumi, Yasuhiro Hagiwara, Yutaka Matsuyama, Takeru Shiroiwa, Naruto Taira, Takuya Kawahara, Keiko Konomura, Shinichi Noto, Takashi Fukuda and Kojiro Shimozuma
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:3
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  38. Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are recommended for assessing patient-centered outcomes in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The main aims were to assess the level of participation in an electronic P...

    Authors: Daniel Deutscher, Clara Weil, Gabriel Chodick, Sveta Tsukinovsky, Keith Bodger, Matti Waterman and Revital Kariv
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:2
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  39. Preference heterogeneity in health valuation has become a topic of greater discussion among health technology assessment agencies. To better understand heterogeneity within a national population, valuation stu...

    Authors: Suzana Karim, Benjamin Matthew Craig, Romina Arely Tejada and Federico Augustovski
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:1
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  40. Quality of Life (QoL) of bladder cancer patients has been largely neglected. This is partly due to the lack of well-validated QoL questionnaires. The aim of this study is to examine the structural validity, re...

    Authors: T. M. Ripping, E. Rammant, J. A. Witjes, N. K. Aaronson, M. van Hemelrijck, L. M. C. van Hoogstraten, L. A. Kiemeney and K. K. H. Aben
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:171
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  41. Fatigue is a common symptom in hospitalized and non-hospitalized patients recovering from COVID-19, but no fatigue measurement scales or questions have been validated in these populations. The objective of thi...

    Authors: Hiten Naik, Selena Shao, Karen C. Tran, Alyson W. Wong, James A. Russell, Esther Khor, Luis Nacul, R. Jane McKay, Christopher Carlsten, Christopher J. Ryerson and Adeera Levin
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:170
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  42. An increasing number of postmenopausal women are diagnosed with breast cancer at an older age (≥ 70 years). There is a lack of synthesised health utility data to support decision-making for managing breast can...

    Authors: Yubo Wang, Sean P. Gavan, Douglas Steinke, Kwok-Leung Cheung and Li-Chia Chen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:169
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  43. Esophageal cancer patients can experience co-occurring, related symptoms labeled symptom clusters. This study aimed to identify symptom clusters and explore which SCs independently affect the quality of life (...

    Authors: Yanli Wang, Zhongfei Xie, Yuxia Liu, Jianing Wang, Zhijun Liu and Sihan Li
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:168
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  44. The study aims to elicit a value set based on the EQ-VT for the EQ-5D-5L that can be used to support decision-making in Sweden.

    Authors: Sun Sun, Ling-Hsiang Chuang, Klas-Göran Sahlén, Lars Lindholm and Fredrik Norström
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:167
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  45. HRQoL is an indicator of individuals’ perception of their overall health, including social and environmental aspects. As a multidimensional concept, HRQoL can be influenced by a multitude of factors. Studies o...

    Authors: Flaka Siqeca, Olivia Yip, Maria José Mendieta, Matthias Schwenkglenks, Andreas Zeller, Sabina De Geest, Franziska Zúñiga, Samuel Stenz, Matthias Briel, Carlos Quinto, Eva Blozik, Mieke Deschodt, Katrina Obas and Suzanne Dhaini
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:166
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  46. The Iraqi state used chemical warfare agents (CWAs) like sulfur mustard (SM) in al-Anfal genocide in the present-day Kurdistan Region of Iraq. In addition to somatic injuries, exposure to CWAs causes biopsycho...

    Authors: Faraidoun Moradi, Fazil Moradi, Ying Li, Anna-Carin Olin and Bledar Daka
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:165
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  47. Almost all traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) quality of life measures are non-preference-based measures (non-PBMs), which do not provide utilities for cost-utility analysis in pharmacoeconomic evaluation. Whe...

    Authors: Li Wang, Yuqiong Lu, Zhanjing Dai, Penghua Shi, Jiayi Xu, Feng Chang and Yun Lu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:164
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  48. The amount of empirical research on whether people in fact include health-related changes in leisure time into health state valuations is limited and the results are inconclusive. In this exploratory study, we...

    Authors: Andrea Icks, Simon Stöbel, Barbara Thorand, Rolf Holle, Michael Laxy, Michaela Schunk, Anja Neumann, Jürgen Wasem, Veronika Gontscharuk and Nadja Chernyak
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:163
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  49. During the transitional phase from childhood to adulthood, adolescents encounter many changes and challenges. Stress is associated with reduced health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in adolescents and, thus, ...

    Authors: Erik Grasaas, Siv Skarstein, Hilde Timenes Mikkelsen, Milada Cvancarova Småstuen, Gudrun Rohde, Sølvi Helseth and Kristin Haraldstad
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:162
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  50. Fatigue is emerging as a major public health problem that is highly associated with poor health-related quality of life and disability. Among adults, fatigue has become increasingly common because of workload ...

    Authors: Rıdvan M. Adın, Ali Naim Ceren, Yeliz Salcı, Ayla Fil Balkan, Kadriye Armutlu and Çiğdem Ayhan Kuru
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2022 20:161
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