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  1. The aims of this study were to explore the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in a large sample of Australian chronically-ill patients (type 2 diabetes and/or hypertension/ischaemic heart disease), to inve...

    Authors: Upali W Jayasinghe, Mark F Harris, Jane Taggart, Bettina Christl and Deborah A Black
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:102
  2. Few studies have evaluated changes on parent–child agreement in HRQOL over time. The objectives of the study were to assess parent–child agreement on child’s HRQOL in a 3-year longitudinal study, and to identi...

    Authors: Luis Rajmil, Amanda Rodríguez López, Sílvia López-Aguilà and Jordi Alonso
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:101
  3. The objective of this study was to determine the validity and reliability of the Malay translated Sleep Apnea Quality of Life Index (SAQLI) in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA).

    Authors: Norkhafizah Saddki, Hazama Mohamad, Nor Idayu Mohd Yusof, Dasmawati Mohamad, Norehan Mokhtar and Wan Zaripah Wan Bakar
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:100
  4. Socioeconomic status (SES) is known to influence children’s health-related quality of life. Many SES indicators assess distinct dimensions of a family’s position rather than measuring the same underlying const...

    Authors: Amy Cassedy, Dennis Drotar, Richard Ittenbach, Shawna Hottinger, Jo Wray, Gil Wernovsky, Jane W Newburger, Lynn Mahony, Kathleen Mussatto, Mitchell I Cohen and Bradley S Marino
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:99
  5. Most of the studies on epilepsy in Kenya and indeed the sub-Saharan region of Africa mainly focus on prevalence, psychiatric profile, and factors associated with increased seizure burden. This being the first ...

    Authors: Daniel WC Kinyanjui, Dammas M Kathuku and John M Mburu
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:98
  6. Several studies in recent years have evaluated Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) of patients with primary hyperparathyroidism (PHPT). No disease specific questionnaires are available to assess the impact ...

    Authors: Susan M Webb, Manel Puig-Domingo, Carles Villabona, Manuel Muñoz-Torres, Jordi Farrerons and Xavier Badia
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:97
  7. There is a growing population of children and adolescents that have survived their cancer diagnosis. Therefore, it is of great importance to perform follow-up studies with relevant, valid and sensitive measure...

    Authors: Anna Jervaeus, Anders Kottorp and Lena Wettergren
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:96
  8. Patient-reported outcome (PRO) data are integral to patient care, policy decision making and healthcare delivery. PRO assessment in pressure ulcers is in its infancy, with few studies including PROs as study o...

    Authors: Claudia Gorecki, Julia M Brown, Stefan Cano, Donna L Lamping, Michelle Briggs, Susanne Coleman, Carol Dealey, Elizabeth McGinnis, Andrea E Nelson, Nikki Stubbs, Lyn Wilson and Jane Nixon
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:95
  9. Patients with incurable, progressive disease receiving palliative care in sub-Saharan Africa experience high levels of spiritual distress with a detrimental impact on their quality of life. Locally validated m...

    Authors: Lucy Selman, Peter Speck, Marjolein Gysels, Godfrey Agupio, Natalya Dinat, Julia Downing, Liz Gwyther, Thandi Mashao, Keletso Mmoledi, Tony Moll, Lydia Mpanga Sebuyira, Barbara Ikin, Irene J Higginson and Richard Harding
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:94
  10. The primary aim of this study was to measure HRQOL of primary care patients in one of the poorest areas of Italy, using SF-12, whereas the secondary aim was to identify subgroups of this population, according ...

    Authors: Benedetto Manuti, Paolo Rizza, Claudia Pileggi, Aida Bianco and Maria Pavia
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:93
  11. Since the end of the 20th century, quality of life has become a key outcome indicator in planning and evaluation of health services. From a sample of 297 users with severe mental disorders from Montreal (Canad...

    Authors: Marie-Josée Fleury, Guy Grenier, Jean-Marie Bamvita, Jacques Tremblay, Norbert Schmitz and Jean Caron
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:92
  12. Quality of life (Qol) is a widely selected outcome in intervention studies. The QUALIDEM is a dementia-specific Qol-instrument from The Netherlands. The aim of this study is to evaluate the scalability and intern...

    Authors: Martin Nikolaus Dichter, Olga Dortmann, Margareta Halek, Gabriele Meyer, Daniela Holle, Johanna Nordheim and Sabine Bartholomeyczik
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:91
  13. Hypoglycaemic events, particularly nocturnal, affect health-related quality of life (HRQoL) via acute symptoms, altered behaviour and fear of future events. We examined the respective disutility associated wit...

    Authors: Marc Evans, Kamlesh Khunti, Muhammad Mamdani, Claus B Galbo-Jørgensen, Jens Gundgaard, Mette Bøgelund and Stewart Harris
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:90
  14. Relative validity (RV), a ratio of ANOVA F-statistics, is often used to compare the validity of patient-reported outcome (PRO) measures. We used the bootstrap to establish the statistical significance of the R...

    Authors: Nina Deng, Jeroan J Allison, Hua Julia Fang, Arlene S Ash and John E Ware Jr
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:89
  15. This study aims to identify factors associated with health related quality of life (HRQOL) through a comprehensive analysis of sociodemographic and clinical variables among a representative sample size of rena...

    Authors: Stéphanie Gentile, Davy Beauger, Elodie Speyer, Elisabeth Jouve, Bertrand Dussol, Christian Jacquelinet and Serge Briançon
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:88
  16. The quality of life in children with short stature was rarely studied in China, so we explore these children’s quality of life and psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Pediatric Quality of Lif...

    Authors: Hua-hong Wu, Hui Li and Qian Gao
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:87
  17. There is a need for a validated self-assessment questionnaire for cognitive impairment in subjects reporting subjective tinnitus. The objective was to develop a patient-reported outcome measure.

    Authors: Ulli Simone Bankstahl and Roman Görtelmeyer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:86
  18. There is some evidence that quality of life measured by long disease-specific questionnaires may predict exacerbations in asthma and COPD, however brief quality of life tools, such as the Airways Questionnaire...

    Authors: Marina Blanco-Aparicio, Isabel Vázquez, Salvador Pita-Fernández, Sonia Pértega-Diaz and Héctor Verea-Hernando
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:85
  19. A new caregiver burden questionnaire for heart failure (CBQ-HF v1.0) was developed based on previously conducted qualitative interviews with HF caregivers and with input from HF clinical experts. Version 1.0 o...

    Authors: Louise Humphrey, Karoly Kulich, Celine Deschaseaux, Steven Blackburn, Laura Maguire and Anna Strömberg
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:84
  20. The purpose of this research was to fully explore the impact of endpoint type (primary vs. nonprimary) on decisions related to patient-reported outcome (PRO) labeling claims supported by PRO measures and to de...

    Authors: Ari Gnanasakthy, Sandra Lewis, Marci Clark, Margaret Mordin and Carla DeMuro
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:83
  21. Apremilast, a specific inhibitor of phosphodiesterase 4, modulates pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokine production.

    Authors: Vibeke Strand, David Fiorentino, ChiaChi Hu, Robert M Day, Randall M Stevens and Kim A Papp
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:82
  22. A variety of instruments are used to measure health related quality of life. Few data exist on the performance and agreement of different instruments in a depressed population. The aim of this study was to inv...

    Authors: Nicholas Turner, John Campbell, Tim J Peters, Nicola Wiles and Sandra Hollinghurst
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:81
  23. The paper analyses how resilience factors and mental health problems interrelate in a 3-year-longitudinal study with 16–19 year olds.

    Authors: Henrik Kröninger-Jungaberle and Dennis Grevenstein
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:80
  24. It has become important to measure long-term effects and quality of life in survivors of childhood cancer. The Minneapolis- Manchester Quality of Life (MMQL) instrument has been proven to better capture the qu...

    Authors: Eva-Lena Einberg, Ibadete Kadrija, David Brunt, Jens M Nygren and Petra Svedberg
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:79
  25. Chronic diseases may influence patients taking major life changing decisions (MLCDs) concerning for example education, career, relationships, having children and retirement. A validated measure is needed to ev...

    Authors: Zaheer U Bhatti, Sam S Salek, Charlotte E Bolton, Lindsay George, Julian P Halcox, Sharon M Jones, Ian R Ketchell, Richard H Moore, Ramsey Sabit, Vincent Piguet and Andrew Y Finlay
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:78
  26. The aim of this study was to examine the measurement properties of the Dutch SF-36 version 2 (SF-36v2) health survey in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

    Authors: Peter M ten Klooster, Harald E Vonkeman, Erik Taal, Liseth Siemons, Lidy Hendriks, Alphons J L de Jong, Ellen A J Dutmer, Piet L C M van Riel and Mart A F J van de Laar
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:77
  27. When evaluating the outcomes of treatment in paediatric endocrinology, the health-related quality of life (HrQoL) of the child is to be taken into consideration. Since few self–reported HrQoL instruments exist...

    Authors: Monika Bullinger, Julia Quitmann, Mick Power, Michael Herdman, Emmanuelle Mimoun, Kendra DeBusk, Eva Feigerlova, Carolina Lunde, Maria Dellenmark-Blom, Dolores Sanz, Anja Rohenkohl, Andreas Pleil, Hartmut Wollmann and John E Chaplin
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:76
  28. Children with chronic conditions often experience a long treatment which can be complex and negatively impacts the child's well-being. In planning treatment and interventions for children with chronic conditio...

    Authors: Christina Petersson, Rune J Simeonsson, Karin Enskar and Karina Huus
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:75
  29. The aim of a rapid response system (RRS) is to improve the timely recognition and treatment of ward patients with deteriorating vital signs The system is based on a set of clinical criteria that are used to as...

    Authors: Friede Simmes, Lisette Schoonhoven, Joke Mintjes, Bernard G Fikkers and Johannes G van der Hoeven
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:74
  30. Physical and mental function are strong indicators of disability and mortality. OEF/OIF Veterans returning from deployment have been found to have poorer function than soldiers who have not deployed; however t...

    Authors: Lisa M McAndrew, Elizabeth D’Andrea, Shou-En Lu, Bhavna Abbi, Grace W Yan, Charles Engel and Karen S Quigley
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:73
  31. Attention disturbances are frequently observed in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients. The aim of this study was to provide new evidence regarding the suitability of using self-reported QoL information in this im...

    Authors: Karine Baumstarck, Mohamed Boucekine, Irina Klemina, Françoise Reuter, Valérie Aghababian, Anderson Loundou, Jean Pelletier and Pascal Auquier
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:70
  32. Sulfur mustard (SM) is an alkylating agent that induces short and long term toxicity on various organs. The aim of this study was to assess the long-term psychological symptoms among samples of exposed to sulf...

    Authors: Rasoul Roshan, Parvin Rahnama, Zeinab Ghazanfari, Ali Montazeri, Mohammad Reza Soroush, Mohammad Mehdi Naghizadeh, Mahdiyeh Melyani, Azadeh Tavoli and Tooba Ghazanfari
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:69
  33. Disease-specific patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) have been developed as important research tools in the study of various diseases. For hypothyroidism there exist three validated disease-specific ques...

    Authors: Eva M Quinque, Arno Villringer, Juergen Kratzsch and Stefan Karger
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:68
  34. The IOFS (Impact On Family Scale) questionnaire is a useful instrument to assess the impact of chronic childhood conditions on general family quality of life. As this instrument was not validated in French, we...

    Authors: Raphaël Boudas, Jérémie Jégu, Bruno Grollemund, Elvire Quentel, Anne Danion-Grilliat and Michel Velten
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:67
  35. We introduce the Pemberton Happiness Index (PHI), a new integrative measure of well-being in seven languages, detailing the validation process and presenting psychometric data. The scale includes eleven items ...

    Authors: Gonzalo Hervás and Carmelo Vázquez
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:66
  36. The Regensburg Insomnia Scale (RIS) is a new self-rating scale to assess cognitive, emotional and behavioural aspects of psychophysiological insomnia (PI) with only ten items. A specific purpose of the new sca...

    Authors: Tatjana Crönlein, Berthold Langguth, Roland Popp, Helmut Lukesch, Christoph Pieh, Göran Hajak and Peter Geisler
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:65
  37. Patient-reported outcome measures have become a well-recognised part of outcome assessment in orthopaedic surgery. These questionnaires claim to measure joint-specific dimensions like pain, function in activit...

    Authors: Johannes M Giesinger, Markus S Kuster, Henrik Behrend and Karlmeinrad Giesinger
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:64
  38. Perceived incongruity between the individual and the job on work-life areas such as workload, control, reward, fairness, community and values have implications for the dimensions of burnout syndrome. The “Area...

    Authors: Santiago Gascón, Michael P Leiter, Naomi Stright, Miguel A Santed, Jesús Montero-Marín, Eva Andrés, Angela Asensio-Martínez and Javier García-Campayo
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:63
  39. Psychological flexibility has been suggested as a fundamental process in health. The Psychological Inflexibility in Pain Scale (PIPS) is one of the scales employed for assessing psychological inflexibility in ...

    Authors: Baltasar Rodero, Joao Paulo Pereira, Maria Cruz Pérez-Yus, Benigno Casanueva, Antonio Serrano-Blanco, Maria J Rodrigues da Cunha Ribeiro, Juan V Luciano and Javier Garcia-Campayo
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:62
  40. The Assessment of Quality of Life - 6D scale (AQoL-6D) is a self-report instrument designed to provide a sensitive multidimensional evaluation of health related quality of life. The current paper assesses the ...

    Authors: Joanne Allen, Kerry J Inder, Terry J Lewin, John R Attia and Brian J Kelly
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:61
  41. To determine the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for the health-utility measures EuroQol-5 dimensions (EQ-5D) and Quality of Well Being Self-Administered (QWB-SA) Scale in PTSD patients.

    Authors: Quang A Le, Jason N Doctor, Lori A Zoellner and Norah C Feeny
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:59
  42. A key goal for services treating older persons is improving Quality of Life (QoL). This study aimed to 1) determine the QoL and utility (i.e. satisfaction with own quality of life) for participants of a discha...

    Authors: Tracy A Comans, Nancye M Peel, Leonard C Gray and Paul A Scuffham
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:58
  43. This discussion is meant to examine the issues raised by Gadarowski in a recent Letter to the Editor.

    Authors: Isabella Piva, Angela Graziano, Giuseppe Lo Monte, Stefano Caracciolo and Roberto Marci
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:53
  44. Various healthcare and social services may impact not only health, but wellbeing as well. Such effects may be more fully captured by capability-wellbeing instruments than with Health-related Quality of Life (H...

    Authors: Peter Makai, Marc A Koopmanschap, Werner BF Brouwer and Anna AP Nieboer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:57
  45. The health-related quality of life (HRQL) of people living with HIV infection is an important consideration in HIV management. The PROQOL-HIV psychometric instrument was recently developed internationally as a...

    Authors: Susan Herrmann, Elizabeth McKinnon, Noel B Hyland, Christophe Lalanne, Simon Mallal, David Nolan, Olivier Chassany and Martin Duracinsky
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:56
  46. While arthritis is the most common cause of disability, non-Hispanic blacks and Hispanics experience worse arthritis impact despite having the same or lower prevalence of arthritis compared to non-Hispanic whi...

    Authors: Kimberly R Middleton, Michael M Ward, Steffany Haaz, Sinthujah Velummylum, Alice Fike, Ana T Acevedo, Gladys Tataw-Ayuketah, Laura Dietz, Barbara B Mittleman and Gwenyth R Wallen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:55

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