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  1. During the recent decade, a number of studies have begun to address Quality of Life (QoL) in children and adolescents with mental health problems in general population and clinical samples. Only about half of ...

    Authors: Thomas Jozefiak, Bo Larsson, Lars Wichstrøm, Jan Wallander and Fritz Mattejat
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:136
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  2. There is a growing interest to use health status or disease control questionnaires in routine clinical practice. However, the validity of most questionnaires is established using techniques developed for group...

    Authors: Janwillem WH Kocks, Huib AM Kerstjens, Sandra L Snijders, Barbara de Vos, Jacqueline J Biermann, Peter van Hengel, Jaap H Strijbos, Henk EP Bosveld and Thys van der Molen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:135
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  3. Obesity affects ethnic minority groups disproportionately, especially in the pediatric population. However, little is known about the impact of obesity on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children and...

    Authors: Afsane Riazi, Sania Shakoor, Isobel Dundas, Christine Eiser and Sheila A McKenzie
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:134
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  4. Glatiramer acetate (GA) and interferon-beta (INFb) are first-line disease modifying drugs for relapsing remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS). Treatment with INFb is associated with a significant increase in hea...

    Authors: Peter J Jongen, Dirk Lehnick, Evert Sanders, Pierette Seeldrayers, Sten Fredrikson, Magnus Andersson and Joachim Speck
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:133
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  5. There is lack of evidence about the unmet needs of people with dementia (PWD) living at home and the predictors of high levels of unmet needs. The main aim of this study was to identify the relationship betwee...

    Authors: Claudia Miranda-Castillo, Bob Woods, Kumari Galboda, Sabu Oomman, Charles Olojugba and Martin Orrell
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:132
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  6. To assess the measurement properties of the Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia Impact Index (BII) for use in men with Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS) secondary to Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH) treated with ...

    Authors: Mallik Angalakuditi, Rita F Seifert, Risa P Hayes, Michael P O'Leary and Lars Viktrup
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:131
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  7. In cost-utility analyses gain in health can be measured using health state utilities. Health state utilities can be elicited from members of the public or from patients. Utilities given by patients tend to be ...

    Authors: Yvette Peeters, Adelita V Ranchor, Thea PM Vliet Vlieland and Anne M Stiggelbout
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:130
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  8. Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a chronic neuromuscular disease. Advances in medical therapy have continuously increased the life expectancy of MG patients, without definitively curing the disease. To analyze life c...

    Authors: Sabine Twork, Susanne Wiesmeth, Jörg Klewer, Dieter Pöhlau and Joachim Kugler
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:129
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  9. Gastroesophageal reflux disease imposes a significant burden of illness in Western populations. However, data on the impact of reflux symptoms on daily life in Asian populations are scarce. The current study a...

    Authors: Rui Wang, Duowu Zou, Xiuqiang Ma, Yanfang Zhao, Xiaoyan Yan, Hong Yan, Jiqian Fang, Ping Yin, Xiaoping Kang, Qiang Li, John Dent, Joseph J Sung, Katarina Halling, Saga Johansson, Wenbin Liu and Jia He
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:128
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  10. To develop a self-administered short questionnaire to assess patient satisfaction with medical treatment for hand eczema (dermatitis) with good psychometric properties.

    Authors: Miguel A Ruiz, Felipe Heras, Agusti Alomar, Luis Conde-Salazar, Jesús de la Cuadra, Esther Serra, Francisco Regalado and Ralf Halbach
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:127
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  11. It is increasingly recognized that the impact of disease on quality of life should be taken into account when assessing health status. It is likely that tooth loss, in most cases being a consequence of oral di...

    Authors: Anneloes E Gerritsen, P Finbarr Allen, Dick J Witter, Ewald M Bronkhorst and Nico HJ Creugers
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:126
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  12. Evidence-based medicine, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG), support the inclusion of patients' preferences in health care decisions. In ...

    Authors: Franz Porzsolt, Johannes Clouth, Marc Deutschmann and Hans-J Hippler
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:125
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  13. To identify demographic and clinical factors associated with psychological and behavioral functioning (PBF) in people with type 2 diabetes living in France.

    Authors: Stephanie Boini, Marie-Line Erpelding, Anne Fagot-Campagna, Mounir Mesbah, Judith Chwalow, Alfred Penfornis, Vincent Coliche, Etienne Mollet, Keith Meadows and Serge Briançon
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:124
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  14. Frailty remains an elusive concept despite many efforts to define and measure it. The difficulty in translating the clinical profile of frail elderly people into a quantifiable assessment tool is due to the co...

    Authors: Shahrul Kamaruzzaman, George B Ploubidis, Astrid Fletcher and Shah Ebrahim
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:123
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  15. In Switzerland the extent to which patients with chronic illnesses receive care congruent with the Chronic Care Model (CCM) is unknown.

    Authors: Claudia Steurer-Stey, Anja Frei, Gabriela Schmid-Mohler, Sibylle Malcolm-Kohler, Marco Zoller and Thomas Rosemann
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:122
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  16. Low health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of children with sickle cell disease (SCD) may be associated with consequences of the disease, or with the low socio-economic status (SES) of this patient population....

    Authors: Channa T Hijmans, Karin Fijnvandraat, Jaap Oosterlaan, Harriët Heijboer, Marjolein Peters and Martha A Grootenhuis
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:121
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  17. Studies have demonstrated that perceived health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of patients receiving hemodialysis is significantly impaired. Since HRQOL outcome data are often used to compare groups to determ...

    Authors: Karen L Saban, Fred B Bryant, Domenic J Reda, Kevin T Stroupe and Denise M Hynes
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:120
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  19. One of the most immediate and important functional consequences of many oral disorders is a reduction in chewing ability. The ability to chew is not only an important dimension of oral health, but is increasin...

    Authors: Mika Inukai, Mike T John, Yoshimasa Igarashi and Kazuyoshi Baba
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:118
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  20. The PRIMUS is a Multiple Sclerosis (MS)-specific suite of outcome measures including assessments of QoL (PRIMUS QoL, scored 0-22) and activity limitations (PRIMUS Activities, scored 0-30). The U-FIS is a measu...

    Authors: James Twiss, Lynda C Doward, Stephen P McKenna and Benjamin Eckert
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:117
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  21. Systematic reviews of randomized trials that include measurements of health-related quality of life potentially provide critical information for patient and clinicians facing challenging health care decisions....

    Authors: Bradley C Johnston, Kristian Thorlund, Holger J Schünemann, Feng Xie, Mohammad Hassan Murad, Victor M Montori and Gordon H Guyatt
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:116
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  22. The late life disability instrument (LLDI) was developed to assess limitations in instrumental and management roles using a small and restricted sample. In this paper we examine the measurement properties of t...

    Authors: Fang-Chi Hsu, W Jack Rejeski, Edward H Ip, Jeff A Katula, Roger Fielding, Alan M Jette, Stephanie A Studenski, Steven N Blair and Michael E Miller
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:115
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  23. Traumatic dental injury (TDI) could have physical and psychosocial consequences for children. Thus, it is important to measure the impact of TDI on the quality of life of children (QoL). The aim of the present...

    Authors: Cristiane B Bendo, Saul M Paiva, Cíntia S Torres, Ana C Oliveira, Daniela Goursand, Isabela A Pordeus and Miriam P Vale
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:114
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  24. The course of barriers towards insulin therapy was analysed in three different groups of type 2 diabetic patients. This observational longitudinal study surveyed a three-month follow-up.

    Authors: Norbert Hermanns, Marina Mahr, Bernd Kulzer, Sören E Skovlund and Thomas Haak
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:113
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  25. Psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and scleroderma (SSc) are chronic rheumatic disorders with detrimental effects on health-related quality of life. Our objective was to assess health values (utilities) from the genera...

    Authors: Dinesh Khanna, Tracy Frech, Puja P Khanna, Robert M Kaplan, Mark H Eckman, Ron D Hays, Shaari S Ginsburg, Anthony C Leonard and Joel Tsevat
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:112
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  26. Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile (MYMOP) is a patient generated outcome instrument applicable in the evaluation of both allopathic and complementary medicine treatment. This study aims to adapt MYMOP i...

    Authors: Vincent CH Chung, Vivian CW Wong, Chun Hong Lau, Henny Hui, Tat Hing Lam, Lin Xiao Zhong, Samuel YS Wong and Sian M Griffiths
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:111
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  27. To assess the cross-sectional construct validity of the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) in lung transplantation.

    Authors: Maria-Jose Santana, David Feeny, Sunita Ghosh, Ronald G Nador, Justin Weinkauf, Kathleen Jackson, Marianne Schafenacker, Dalyce Zuk, Grace Hubert and Dale Lien
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:110
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  28. The aim was to evaluate data quality and psychometric properties of an instrument for measurement of health-related quality of life: DISABKIDS Chronic Generic Module (DCGM-37) used in school-aged children with...

    Authors: Margareta af Sandeberg, Eva M Johansson, Peter Hagell and Lena Wettergren
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:109
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  29. This study aims to (i) evaluate the association between anxiety and depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life (HRQoL); and (ii) identify the effect modifiers of this relationship in patients with ...

    Authors: Eva Balcells, Joaquim Gea, Jaume Ferrer, Ignasi Serra, Mauricio Orozco-Levi, Jordi de Batlle, Esther Rodriguez, Marta Benet, David Donaire-González, Josep M Antó and Judith Garcia-Aymerich
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:108
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  30. Respiratory symptoms are common in the general population, and their presence is related to Health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The objective was to describe the association of respiratory symptoms with HR...

    Authors: Marianne Voll-Aanerud, Tomas ML Eagan, Estel Plana, Ernst R Omenaas, Per S Bakke, Cecilie Svanes, Valerie Siroux, Isabelle Pin, Josep M Antó and Benedicte Leynaert
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:107
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  31. in Occidental languages, no widely accepted questionnaire is available which deals with health related quality of life from the specific point of view of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Some psychometric t...

    Authors: Giovanni Aschero, Flavio Fenoglio, Maria Giuseppina Vidili and Andrea Wussler
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:106
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  32. The study aimed at presenting normative data for both parallel forms of the "Rasch-based Depression Screening (DESC)", to examine its Rasch model conformity and convergent and divergent validity based on a rep...

    Authors: Thomas Forkmann, Maren Boecker, Markus Wirtz, Heide Glaesmer, Elmar Brähler, Christine Norra and Siegfried Gauggel
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:105
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  33. Many patients with advanced cancer depend upon health care providers for symptom assessment. The extent of agreement between patient and provider symptom assessments and the association of agreement with demog...

    Authors: Eivor A Laugsand, Mirjam AG Sprangers, Kristin Bjordal, Frank Skorpen, Stein Kaasa and Pål Klepstad
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:104
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  34. The validity of Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) recalled by ICU admitted patients have not been published. The aim of this study was to compare the baseline HRQOL measured before surgery and ICU admissi...

    Authors: Maurizia Capuzzo, Sara Bertacchini, Elena Davanzo, Giovanna Felisatti, Laura Paparella, Laura Tadini and Raffaele Alvisi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:103
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  35. Early treatment of COPD exacerbations has shown to be important. Despite a non-negligible negative impact on health related quality of life, a large proportion of these episodes is not reported (no change in t...

    Authors: Jaap CA Trappenburg, Irene Touwen, Gerdien H de Weert-van Oene, Jean Bourbeau, Evelyn M Monninkhof, Theo JM Verheij, Jan-Willem J Lammers and Augustinus JP Schrijvers
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:102
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  36. Concern regarding the health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of long-term survivors of thyroid cancer has risen due to the rapid increase in the incidence of thyroid cancer, which generally has an excellent pr...

    Authors: Ji In Lee, Soo Hyun Kim, Alice H Tan, Hee Kyung Kim, Hye Won Jang, Kyu Yeon Hur, Jae Hyeon Kim, Kwang-Won Kim, Jae Hoon Chung and Sun Wook Kim
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:101
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  37. Numerous studies document the influence of psychosocial variables on the course of coronary heart disease. This study examines the influence of personality traits (trait anger, cynicism) and aspects of the phy...

    Authors: Erik Farin and Milena Meder
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:100
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  38. It is vital to understand the associations between the medication event monitoring systems (MEMS) and self-reported questionnaires (SRQs) because both are often used to measure medication adherence and can pro...

    Authors: Lizheng Shi, Jinan Liu, Vivian Fonseca, Philip Walker, Anupama Kalsekar and Manjiri Pawaskar
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:99
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  39. Identifying the determinants of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with systolic heart failure (CHF) is rare in primary care; studies often lack a defined sample, a comprehensive set of variabl...

    Authors: Frank Peters-Klimm, Cornelia U Kunz, Gunter Laux, Joachim Szecsenyi and Thomas Müller-Tasch
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:98
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  40. Sternocostoclavicular hyperostosis (SCCH) is a rare, debilitating, chronic inflammatory disorder of the anterior chest wall due to a chronic sterile osteomyelitis of unknown origin. SCCH is largely underdiagno...

    Authors: Willem A van der Kloot, Neveen AT Hamdy, Laurian CS Hafkemeijer, Femke MC den Dulk, Sadhna A Chotkan, Arnold AP van Emmerik and Ad A Kaptein
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:97
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  41. Results of a national survey of asthmatic children that evaluated management goals established in 2004 by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP) indicated that asthma symptom control fell...

    Authors: Bonnie B Dean, Brian C Calimlim, Patricia Sacco, Daniel Aguilar, Robert Maykut and David Tinkelman
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:96
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  42. Depression often coexists with myocardial infarction (MI) and has been found to impede recovery through reduced functioning in key areas of life such as work. In an era of improved survival rates and extended ...

    Authors: Adrienne O'Neil, Kristy Sanderson and Brian Oldenburg
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:95
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  43. Quality of life (QoL) in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) has been found to differ across countries. However, comparability of measurement results between countries depends on the cross-cultural validity ...

    Authors: Szilvia Geyh, Bernd AG Fellinghauer, Inge Kirchberger and Marcel WM Post
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:94
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  44. Despite the availability of standard instruments for evaluating health-related quality life (HRQoL), the feasibility, reliability, and validity of such instruments among tuberculosis (TB) patients in different...

    Authors: Harriet M Babikako, Duncan Neuhauser, Achilles Katamba and Ezekiel Mupere
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:93
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  45. Impairments in upper-body function (UBF) are common following breast cancer. However, the relationship between arm morbidity and quality of life (QoL) remains unclear. This investigation uses longitudinal data...

    Authors: Sandra C Hayes, Sheree Rye, Diana Battistutta, Tracey DiSipio and Beth Newman
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:92
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  46. To apply a scaled, preference-based measure to the evaluation of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Parkinson's disease (PD); to evaluate the relationship between disease-specific rating scales and esti...

    Authors: Galit Kleiner-Fisman, Matthew B Stern and David N Fisman
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:91
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  47. Health-related quality of life (HRQL) is poor in obese subjects and is a relevant outcome in intervention studies. We aimed to determine factors associated with poor HRQL in obese patients seeking weight loss ...

    Authors: Edoardo Mannucci, Maria L Petroni, Nicola Villanova, Carlo M Rotella, Giovanni Apolone and Giulio Marchesini
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:90
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  48. The use of patient reported outcome scales in clinical trials conducted by the pharmaceutical industry has become more widespread in recent years. The use of such outcomes is particularly common for products d...

    Authors: Lynda C Doward, Ari Gnanasakthy and Mary G Baker
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:89
    Content type: Commentary Published on:

  50. To evaluate the association between patient-reported hypoglycemic symptoms with ratings of their health-related quality of life state and patient-reported adverse events in patients with type 2 diabetes mellit...

    Authors: Fernando Alvarez-Guisasola, Donald D Yin, Gonzalo Nocea, Ying Qiu and Panagiotis Mavros
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:86
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