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  1. Palliative Care (PC) is an approach that improves the Quality of Life (QoL). A number of QoL assessment tools have been developed and validated in PC. It is not clear how QoL should be measured in PC practice....

    Authors: Gianluca Catania, Massimo Costantini, Monica Beccaro, Annamaria Bagnasco and Loredana Sasso
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:7
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  2. Mindful-based interventions improve functioning and quality of life in fibromyalgia (FM) patients. The aim of the study is to perform a psychometric analysis of the Spanish version of the Mindful Attention Awa...

    Authors: Ausias Cebolla, Juan V Luciano, Marcelo Piva DeMarzo, Mayte Navarro-Gil and Javier Garcia Campayo
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:6
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  3. Primary focal hyperhidrosis is a health problem, which has negative effects on the patient's quality of life and significantly affects the patients’ daily activities, social and business life. The aim of this ...

    Authors: Mehmet Ak, Didem Dincer, Bikem Haciomeroglu, Suleyman Akarsu, Alper Cinar and Nergis Lapsekili
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:5
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  4. An instrument was developed in Canada to assess impairments related to oral functioning of individuals with four years of age or older with Down syndrome (DS). The present study attempted to carry out the cros...

    Authors: Karina Bonanato, Isabela A Pordeus, Thiago Compart, Ana Cristina Oliveira, Paul J Allison and Saul M Paiva
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:4
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  5. The EQ-5D is a generic questionnaire providing a preference-based index score applicable to cost-utility analysis. This is the first study to validate the EQ-5D in patients with somatoform disorders.

    Authors: Christian Brettschneider, Hans-Helmut König, Wolfgang Herzog, Claudia Kaufmann, Rainer Schaefert and Alexander Konnopka
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:3
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  6. The Psychological General Well Being Index (PGWBI) is a widely used scale across many conditions. Over time issues have been raised about the dimensional structure of the scale, and it has not yet been subject...

    Authors: Åsa Lundgren-Nilsson, Ingibjörg H Jonsdottir, Gunnar Ahlborg jr and Alan Tennant
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:2
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  7. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) was found to improve in participants of weight management interventions. However, information on moderately overweight youth as well as on maintaining HRQoL improvements ...

    Authors: Emily Finne, Thomas Reinehr, Anke Schaefer, Katrin Winkel and Petra Kolip
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:1
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  8. Mental well-being now features prominently in UK and international health policy. However, progress has been hampered by lack of valid measures that are responsive to change. The objective of this study was to...

    Authors: Hendramoorthy Maheswaran, Scott Weich, John Powell and Sarah Stewart-Brown
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:156
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  9. Natalizumab (Tysabri, Biogen Idec and Elan Pharmaceuticals) significantly reduces the relapse rate and disability progression, and improves health-related quality of life (HRQoL), in patients with relapsing-re...

    Authors: Judith J Stephenson, David M Kern, Sonalee S Agarwal, Ruth Zeidman, Krithika Rajagopalan, Siddhesh A Kamat and John Foley
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:155
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  10. In the US, approximately 53% of adults have at least one chronic condition. Comorbid physical and mental health conditions often have an incremental negative impact on health-related quality of life (HRQL). Prima...

    Authors: Martha Bayliss, Regina Rendas-Baum, Michelle K White, Mark Maruish, Jakob Bjorner and Sandra L Tunis
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:154
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  11. Urinary incontinence negatively influences the lives of 25-50% of elderly women, mostly due to feelings of shame and being limited in activities and social interactions. This study explores whether differences...

    Authors: Janka A Barentsen, Els Visser, Hedwig Hofstetter, Anna M Maris, Janny H Dekker and Geertruida H de Bock
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:153
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  12. This systematic review aims to summarise all the available evidence related to the association between pre-operative patient expectations (outcome expectations, process expectations and self efficacy expectati...

    Authors: Tsjitske M Haanstra, Tobias van den Berg, Raymond W Ostelo, Rudolf W Poolman, Ilse P Jansma, Pim Cuijpers and Henrica CW de Vet
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:152
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2013 11:72

  13. The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire Core 30 (EORTC QLQ-C30) is the instrument most frequently used to measure quality of life in cancer patients, wherea...

    Authors: Seon Ha Kim, Min-Woo Jo, Hwa-Jung Kim and Jin-Hee Ahn
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:151
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  14. The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) quality of life colorectal questionnaire module (QLQ-CR38) was developed in 1999, and an update, the QLQ CR29 was published recently. To d...

    Authors: Henriette Vind Thaysen, P Jess, Søren Laurberg and M Groenvold
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:150
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  15. Major depressive disorder is prevalent in the adolescent psychiatric clinical setting and often comorbid with other primary psychiatric diagnoses such as ADHD or social anxiety disorder. Systematic manual-base...

    Authors: Eva Henje Blom, Per Bech, Göran Högberg, Jan Olov Larsson and Eva Serlachius
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:149
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  16. Understanding patients’ views about medication is crucial to maximize adherence. Thalassemia is a congenital blood disorder requiring chronic blood transfusions and daily iron chelation therapy.

    Authors: Felicia L Trachtenberg, Lauren Mednick, Janet L Kwiatkowski, Ellis J Neufeld, Dru Haines, Zahra Pakbaz, Alexis A Thompson, Charles T Quinn, Robert Grady, Amy Sobota, Nancy Olivieri, Robert Horne and Robert Yamashita
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:148
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  17. To develop and validate an item bank to measure mobility in older people in primary care and to analyse differential item functioning (DIF) and differential bundle functioning (DBF) by sex.

    Authors: Julio Cabrero-García, Juan Diego Ramos-Pichardo, Carmen Luz Muñoz-Mendoza, María José Cabañero-Martínez, Lorena González-Llopis and Abilio Reig-Ferrer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:147
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  18. Being born with low birth weight may have an impact on different aspects of mental health, psychosocial functioning and well-being; however results from studies in young adulthood have so far yielded mixed fin...

    Authors: Line K Lund, Torstein Vik, Stian Lydersen, Gro CC Løhaugen, Jon Skranes, Ann-Mari Brubakk and Marit S Indredavik
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:146
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  19. Quality of life (QoL) assessment has become an important aspect of the clinical management of gastric cancer (GC), which poses a greater health threat in Chinese populations around the world. Functional Assess...

    Authors: Hui Jun Zhou, Jimmy BY So, Wei Peng Yong, Nan Luo, Feng Zhu, Nasheen Naidoo, Shu Chuen Li and Khay Guan Yeoh
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:145
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  20. To be clinically useful, an instrument assessing health-related quality of life (HRQOL) should be easy to understand and quick to answer. Few instruments have been designed to be short, simple, and easily unde...

    Authors: Carlos Eduardo Paiva, Fernanda Capella Rugno and Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro Paiva
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:144
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  21. Under the culture of filial piety and due to the Confucianism spirit in China, family caregivers usually undertake the responsibilities of caring for the older adults. They usually suffer from a heavy burden w...

    Authors: Xiaoshi Yang, Yiming Hao, Shernelle Marlah George and Lie Wang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:143
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  22. Advisory bodies, such as the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK, advocate using preference based instruments to measure the quality of life (QoL) component of the quality-ad...

    Authors: Carys Jones, Rhiannon Tudor Edwards and Barry Hounsome
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:142
    Content type: Review Published on:

  23. There is a high prevalence of depression in patients with heart failure (HF) that is associated with worsening prognosis. The value of using a reliable and valid instrument to measure depression in this popula...

    Authors: Chantal F Ski, David R Thompson, David L Hare, Andrew G Stewart and Roger Watson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:141
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  24. Infertility represents a major challenge to the emotional balance and sexual life of couples, with long-lasting and gender-specific effects. The objective of this study is to explore personality features of in...

    Authors: Roberto Marci, Angela Graziano, Isabella Piva, Giuseppe Lo Monte, Ilaria Soave, Emilio Giugliano, Silvia Mazzoni, Roberta Capucci, Maria Carbonara, Stefano Caracciolo and Alfredo Patella
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:140
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  25. Chronic allograft nephropathy (CAN) occurs in a large share of transplant recipients and it is the leading cause of graft loss despite the introduction of new and effective immunosuppressants. The reduction in...

    Authors: Luca Neri, Phil McEwan, Karin Sennfält and Kesh Baboolal
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:139
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  27. Pain catastrophization has recently been recognized as a barrier to the healthy development of physical functioning among chronic pain patients. Levels of pain catastrophization in chronic pain patients are co...

    Authors: Linzette D Morris, Karen A Grimmer-Somers, Quinette A Louw and Michael J Sullivan
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:137
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  28. Considering the complications that colostomies may cause, patient self-assessments of their social, emotional, physical, sexual and functional conditions may help their surgeons to evaluate the impact of their...

    Authors: Bahar Mahjoubi, Rezvan Mirzaei, Rasoul Azizi, Mehdi Jafarinia and Leila Zahedi-Shoolami
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:136
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  29. The Orofacial Esthetic Scale (OES) is an eight-item instrument to assess how patients perceive their dental and facial esthetics. In this cross-sectional study we investigated dimensionality, reliability, and ...

    Authors: Mike T John, Pernilla Larsson, Krister Nilner, Dipankar Bandyopadhyay and Thomas List
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:135
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  30. A systematic literature review was conducted to (a) identify the most frequently used health-related quality of life (HRQOL) models and (b) critique those models.

    Authors: Tamilyn Bakas, Susan M McLennon, Janet S Carpenter, Janice M Buelow, Julie L Otte, Kathleen M Hanna, Marsha L Ellett, Kimberly A Hadler and Janet L Welch
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:134
    Content type: Review Published on:

  31. Cancer is among the three leading causes of death in low income countries and the highest increase with regard to incidence figures for cancer diseases are found in these countries. This is the first report of...

    Authors: Golden M Masika, Lena Wettergren, Thecla W Kohi and Louise von Essen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:133
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  33. The respective abilities of the GOHAI and OHIP-14 to discriminate between aged patients with different levels of oral diseases have rarely been studied in developing countries. The aim of this study was to com...

    Authors: Nada El Osta, Stephanie Tubert-Jeannin, Martine Hennequin, Nada Bou Abboud Naaman, Lana El Osta and Negib Geahchan
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:131
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  34. The adequate information about the functional capacity of elderly populations is a key for the comprehensive assessment of their health status and autonomy. The Lawton IADL (instrumental activities of daily li...

    Authors: Itziar Vergara, Amaia Bilbao, Miren Orive, Susana Garcia-Gutierrez, Gemma Navarro and José María Quintana
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:130
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  35. Among long-term care (LTC) residents, we explored the association between anemia status and hemoglobin (Hb) level with Activities of Daily Living (ADL) functioning and health-related quality of life (HRQOL).

    Authors: Robert A Bailey, Gregory Reardon, Michael R Wasserman, R Scott McKenzie and R Steve Hord
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:129
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  36. Tinnitus research in an international context requires standardized and validated questionnaires in different languages. The aim of the present set of analyses was the reassessment of basic psychometric proper...

    Authors: Florian Zeman, Michael Koller, Martin Schecklmann, Berthold Langguth and Michael Landgrebe
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:128
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  37. The purpose of the study was to determine whether the Persian version of the KIDSCREEN-27 has the optimal number of response category to measure health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children and adolescen...

    Authors: Peyman Jafari, Zahra Bagheri and Mozhgan Safe
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:127
    Content type: Short report Published on:

  38. To examine the psychometric properties of the Injection Pen Assessment Questionnaire (IPAQ) including the following: 1) item and scale characteristics (e.g., frequencies, item distributions, and factor structu...

    Authors: Andreas M Pleil, Miriam Kimel, Julie McCormack, Natasa Rajicic and Judith Hey-Hadavi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:126
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  40. The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy (FACT) is one of the most commonly used self-report instruments for evaluation of health-related quality of life in oncology patients. However, cultural consideratio...

    Authors: Yan Ding, Yan Hu and Ingalill R Hallberg
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:124
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  41. Men diagnosed with localized prostate cancer (LPC) can choose from multiple treatment regimens and are faced with a decision in which medical factors and personal preferences are important. The Personal Patien...

    Authors: Jaclyn LF Bosco, Barbara Halpenny and Donna L Berry
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:123
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  42. While data for preterm children health-related quality of life are available, there are little data on the perception of health-related quality of life evaluation by physicians who manage preterm children, or ...

    Authors: Marie-Ange Einaudi, Marie-Claude Simeoni, Catherine Gire, Pierre Le Coz, Sophie Condopoulos and Pascal Auquier
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:122
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  44. The Anti-Clot Treatment Scale (ACTS) is a 15-item patient-reported instrument of satisfaction with anticoagulant treatment. It includes a 12-item ACTS Burdens scale and a 3-item ACTS Benefits scale. Its role i...

    Authors: Stefan J Cano, Donna L Lamping, Luke Bamber and Sarah Smith
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:120
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  45. Although it is known both patients’ and partners’ reactions to a prostate cancer diagnosis include fear, uncertainty, anxiety and depression, with patients’ and partners’ reactions mutually determining how the...

    Authors: Sylvie D Lambert, Afaf Girgis, Jane Turner, Patrick McElduff, Karen Kayser and Paula Vallentine
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:119
    Content type: Study protocol Published on:

  46. Index measures for health-related quality of life (HRQoL) quantify the desirability (utility) of a certain health state. The commonly used generic index measure, e.g. EuroQol: EQ-5D, may underestimate relevant...

    Authors: Carla J M Schölzel-Dorenbos, Alexander M M Arons, Joost J G Wammes, Marcel G M Olde Rikkert and Paul F M Krabbe
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:118
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  47. The prevalence of gout is increasing, and most research on the associated burden has focused on serum urate (sUA) levels. The present study quantifies the impact of the presence of tophi and frequency of acute...

    Authors: Puja P Khanna, George Nuki, Thomas Bardin, Anne-Kathrin Tausche, Anna Forsythe, Amir Goren, Jeffrey Vietri and Dinesh Khanna
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:117
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  48. Common symptoms for children with Anderson-Fabry Disease (FD) such as acroparaesthesia and gastrointestinal manifestations can only be objectively assessed in patients using a valid instrument. To date, no suc...

    Authors: Uma Ramaswami, Donald E Stull, Rossella Parini, Guillem Pintos-Morell, Catharina Whybra, Gisela Kalkum, Marianne Rohrbach, Mireia Raluy-Callado, Michael Beck, Wen-Hung Chen and Ingela Wiklund
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:116
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  49. Hemodialysis patients face numerous physical and psychological stresses that result in reduced health. The aim of this study is to determine the impact of an empowerment program on self-efficacy, quality of li...

    Authors: Marzieh Moattari, Marzieh Ebrahimi, Nasrin Sharifi and Jamshid Rouzbeh
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:115
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  50. To psychometrically validate the Spanish version of the self-administered 2-item GAD-2 scale for screening probable patients with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD).

    Authors: Javier García-Campayo, Enric Zamorano, Miguel A Ruiz, María Pérez-Páramo, Vanessa López-Gómez and Javier Rejas
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:114
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