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Development and validation of behavioral intention measures of an E-vapor product: intention to try, use, dual use, and switch

The harm caused by tobacco use is primarily attributable to cigarette smoking. Switching completely to non-combustible products may reduce disease risks in adult cigarette smokers who are unable or unwilling t...

Authors: Stacey A. McCaffrey, Jessica Parker Zdinak, Stephanie Plunkett, Elizabeth Becker, Jennifer N. Lewis and Ryan A. Black

Determining the psychometric properties of a novel questionnaire to measure “preparedness for the future” (Prep FQ)

People are living longer than ever before. However, with living longer comes increased problems that negatively impact on quality of life and the quality of death. Tools are needed to help individuals assess w...

Authors: Daren K. Heyland, J. Paige Pope, Xuran Jiang and Andrew G. Day

Evaluating quality of life in families with Williams Syndrome patients

Williams Syndrome is a developmental disorder characterized by a variable intellectual disability. People with Williams Syndrome need the intervention of several clinical and educational specialists throughout...

Authors: Esther Moraleda Sepúlveda and Patricia López Resa

Translation and validation of the Japanese version of the measure of moral distress for healthcare professionals

Moral distress occurs when professionals cannot carry out what they believe to be ethically appropriate actions because of constraints or barriers. We aimed to assess the validity and reliability of the Japane...

Authors: Tomoko Fujii, Shinshu Katayama, Kikuko Miyazaki, Hiroshi Nashiki, Takehiro Niitsu, Tetsuhiro Takei, Akemi Utsunomiya, Peter Dodek, Ann Hamric and Takeo Nakayama

Validation of an 8-item Recovery Assessment Scale (RAS-8) for people with schizophrenia in China

The 24-item Recovery Assessment Scale (RAS) is the most widely-used and well-validated tool for measuring recovery for people with mental illness. The current study aims to assess the reliability and validity ...

Authors: Si-jia He, Yan-wen Fang, Zi-xin Huang and Yu Yu

Association of health literacy and medication adherence with health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with ischemic heart disease

Medication Adherence (MA) and Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) are two inter-connected concepts, co-influenced by Health Literacy (HL), with significant impact on patient management and care. Thus, we ai...

Authors: Muzna Suhail, Hamid Saeed, Zikria Saleem, Saman Younas, Furqan Khurshid Hashmi, Fawad Rasool, Muhammad Islam and Imran Imran

Cross-cultural adaptation of the Perceived Risk of HIV Scale in Brazilian Portuguese

Valid and reliable instruments are needed to measure the multiple dimensions of perceived risk. The Perceived Risk of HIV Scale is an 8-item measure that assesses how people think and feel about their risk of ...

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

The patient enablement instrument for back pain: reliability, content validity, construct validity and responsiveness

Currently, there are no outcome measures assessing the ability of people with non-specific low back pain to self-manage their illness. Inspired by the ‘Patient Enablement Instrument’, we developed the Patient ...

Authors: A. Molgaard Nielsen, J. Hartvigsen, A. Kongsted, B. Öberg, P. Enthoven, A. Abbott and H. H. Lauridsen

Intragenerational social mobility and self-rated oral health in the british cohort study

Most studies on social mobility and oral health have focused on movement between generations (intergenerational mobility) rather than movement within an individual’s own lifetime (intragenerational mobility). ...

Authors: Aina Najwa Mohd Khairuddin, Eduardo Bernabé and Elsa Karina Delgado-Angulo

Cross-cultural adaptation, reliability and validity of the Fremantle Knee Awareness Questionnaire in Italian subjects with painful knee osteoarthritis

Growing attention is being given to utilising physical function measures to better understand and manage knee osteoarthritis (OA). The Fremantle Knee Awareness Questionnaire (FreKAQ), a self-reported measure o...

Authors: Marco Monticone, Cristiano Sconza, Igor Portoghese, Tomohiko Nishigami, Benedict M. Wand, Gregorio Sorrentino, Giulia Lemorini, Stefano Respizzi, Andrea Giordano and Franco Franchignoni

An Excel program for calculating statistics presented in Marfak et al.’s article ‘Improved RIDIT statistic approach provides more intuitive and informative interpretation of EQ-5D Data’

The objective is to present and share an Excel program that we have developed to perform statistical analyses based on the Improved RIDIT approach of Marfak et al.’s article ‘Improved RIDIT statistic approach ...

Authors: Abdelghafour Marfak and Ibtissam Youlyouz-Marfak

Happiness, quality of working life, and job satisfaction among nurses working in emergency departments in Iran

Nurses have a vital role in the healthcare system. One of the basic steps to increase their happiness is to recognize factors such as job satisfaction and quality of working life. Therefore, the goal of the pr...

Authors: Somayeh Javanmardnejad, Razieh Bandari, Majideh Heravi-Karimooi, Nahid Rejeh, Hamid Sharif Nia and Ali Montazeri

Retraction Note to: Quality of life in endometrial cancer survivors: single institution experience in Slovakia

This article has been retracted. Please see the Retraction Notice for more detail: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12955-021-01750-8

Authors: Erik Lajtman

Correction to: Health-related quality of life in nonvalvular atrial fibrillation patients with controlled or uncontrolled anticoagulation status

An amendment to this paper has been published and can be accessed via the original article.

Authors: José Felipe Varona, José Miguel Seguí‑Ripoll, Cristina Lozano‑Duran, Luis Miguel Cuadrado‑Gómez, Juan Bautista Montagud‑Moncho, Antonio Ramos‑Guerrero, José Carlos Mirete‑Ferrer, Esther Donado and Javier García‑Alegría

The way forward to a renewed and improved Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Authors: Mark Oremus and Oliver Rivero-Arias

Health-related quality of life in Iranian adolescents: a psychometric evaluation of the self-report form of the PedsQL 4.0 and an investigation of gender and age differences

Research on the psychometric properties of the Persian self-report form of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Version 4.0 (PedsQL 4.0) in adolescents has several gaps (e.g., convergent validity) that limi...

Authors: Habib Hadianfard, Behnaz Kiani, Mahla Azizzadeh Herozi, Fatemeh Mohajelin and John T. Mitchell

Impact of subthreshold depression on health-related quality of life in patients with Parkinson’s disease based on cognitive status

In patients with Parkinson’s disease (PD), depression has a strong impact on quality of life (QoL). However, little is known about the influence of subthreshold depression (STD) on QoL in PD patients.

Authors: Aline Schönenberg, Hannah M. Zipprich, Ulrike Teschner, Julian Grosskreutz, Otto W. Witte and Tino Prell

Validation of the German version of the Family Reported Outcome Measure (FROM-16) to assess the impact of disease on the partner or family member

The Family Reported Outcome Measure (FROM-16) assesses the impact of a patient’s chronic illness on the quality of life (QoL) of the patient’s partner or family members. The aim of the study was to translate, ...

Authors: Susanne A. Elsner, Sam S. Salek, Andrew Y. Finlay, Anna Hagemeier, Catherine J. Bottomley, Alexander Katalinic and Annika Waldmann

Daily emotional inertia and long-term subjective well-being among people living with HIV

The aim of this study was to verify if subjective well-being (SWB) modifies the autoregressive effect of daily emotions and if this emotional inertia predicts long-term changes in SWB among people living with ...

Authors: Marcin Rzeszutek, Ewa Gruszczyńska and Ewa Firląg-Burkacka

The mediating effect of social support on the relationship between perceived stress and quality of life among shidu parents in China

“Loss-of-only-child family” refers to the family in which the only child died and the mother has passed her child-bearing age. The parents who are unable to reproduce or do not foster other children are known ...

Authors: Cong Wang, Shuang Lin, Yanni Ma and Yang Wang

Prevalence of mental health problems in frontline healthcare workers after the first outbreak of COVID-19 in China: a cross-sectional study

More than 210,000 medical workers have fought against the outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in Hubei in China since December 2019. However, the prevalence of mental health problems in frontline m...

Authors: Wen-Ping Guo, Qing Min, Wei-Wei Gu, Liang Yu, Xiao Xiao, Wei-Bing Yi, Hong-Liang Li, Bei Huang, Jun-Li Li, Ya-Jun Dai, Jian Xia, Jie Liu, Bei Li, Ben-Hong Zhou, Minglun Li, Hong-Xi Xu…

Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Mexican version of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS)

Instruments adapted for the Mexican population to assess oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) in preschoolers remain lacking. This study aimed to cross-culturally adapt and evaluate the psychometric pr...

Authors: Alba Lilia Brambila Montoya, Jessica Klöckner Knorst, Isaac Murisi Pedroza Uribe, Rubén Alberto Bayardo González, Thiago Machado Ardenghi and Carmen Celina Alonso Sánchez

Content validity of preference-based measures for economic evaluation in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Generic preference-based measures (GPBMs) are health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures commonly used to evaluate the cost-utility of interventions in healthcare. However, the degree to which the content...

Authors: Ava Mehdipour, Sachi O’Hoski, Marla K. Beauchamp, Joshua Wald and Ayse Kuspinar

Quality of life in primary sclerosing cholangitis: a systematic review

Primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) is a rare bile duct and liver disease which can considerably impact quality of life (QoL). As part of a project developing a measure of QoL for people with PSC, we conducte...

Authors: Elena Marcus, Paddy Stone, Anna-Maria Krooupa, Douglas Thorburn and Bella Vivat

Determining the reasons for unmet healthcare needs in South Korea: a secondary data analysis

“Unmet healthcare needs” refers to the situation in which patients or citizens cannot fulfill their medical needs, likely due to socioeconomic reasons. The purpose of this study was to analyze factors related ...

Authors: Boyoung Jung and In-Hyuk Ha

Quality of life among cancer inpatients 80 years and older: a systematic review

The aim of this systematic review was to summarize and assess the literature on quality of life (QoL) among cancer patients 80 years and older admitted to hospitals and what QoL instruments have been used.

Authors: Jorunn Drageset, Reidun Karin Sandvik, Leslie Sofia Pareja Eide, Gunhild Austrheim, Mary Fox and Elisabeth Grov Beisland

EQ-5D self-reported health in Barbados and Jamaica with EQ-5D-5L population norms for the English-speaking Caribbean

The EQ-5D instrument is increasingly used in clinical and resource allocation decision making in developed and developing countries. EQ-5D valuation and population norms studies have been undertaken for Trinid...

Authors: Henry Bailey, Mathieu F. Janssen, Althea La Foucade, Girjanauth Boodraj, Marjorie Wharton and Philip Castillo

The performance of the EQ-5D-3L in screening for anxiety and depressive symptoms in hospital and community settings

To examine the performance of the EQ-5D-3L in screening for anxiety and depressive symptoms in hospital and community settings compared to other patient-reported screening tools.

Authors: Hilary Short, Fatima Al Sayah, Arto Ohinmaa and Jeffrey A. Johnson

Validation of the Portuguese version of Amsterdam Preoperative Anxiety and Information Scale (APAIS)

Preoperative anxiety is common among the oncological surgical population. Due to its psychological and physiological detrimental effects, identifying and addressing it is of uttermost importance to improve ane...

Authors: Sandra Maurício, Isabel Rebêlo, Catarina Madeira, Filipa Resende and Susana Esteves

Health state utility values in major depressive disorder treated with pharmacological interventions: a systematic literature review

Major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with decreased patient well-being and symptoms that can cause substantial impairments in patient functioning and even lead to suicide. Worldwide, MDD currently cau...

Authors: James Brockbank, Taryn Krause, Emily Moss, Anne Milthers Pedersen, Michael Frank Mørup, Outi Ahdesmäki, Jake Vaughan and Thor-Henrik Brodtkorb

Validation of living with chronic illness scale in a type 2 diabetes mellitus population

Worldwide, type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is one of the most prevalent chronic diseases and one of those producing greatest impact on patients’ day-to-day quality of life. Our study aim is to validate the “Li...

Authors: Jorge Caro-Bautista, Carmen Rodríguez-Blázquez, David Perez-Manchon, Eva Timonet-Andreu, Gloria Carvajal-Carrascal, Alejandra Fuentes-Ramírez, Silvia Corchon, Marta Aranda-Gallardo and Leire Ambrosio

The path linking disease severity and cognitive function with quality of life in Parkinson’s disease: the mediating effect of activities of daily living and depression

Research on quality of life (QOL) with Parkinson’s disease (PD) has examined direct influencing factors, not mediators. The study aim was to explore whether PD severity and poor cognitive function may decrease...

Authors: Yao He, Yuling Tian, Hongjuan Han, Jing Cui, Xiaoyan Ge, Yao Qin, Yanhong Luo, Wenlin Bai and Hongmei Yu

Translation and validation of the Arabic version of the osteoarthritis quality of life questionnaire (OAQoL) in Saudi patients with osteoarthritis

Osteoarthritis (OA) is a debilitating multifactorial degenerative rheumatic disease affecting millions of people around the globe. The osteoarthritis quality of life scale (OAQoL), originally produced in the E...

Authors: Mansour AlAjmi and Sameer Al-Ghamdi

A poorer nutritional status impacts quality of life in a sample population of elderly cancer patients

Quality of Life (QoL) is impaired in cancer, and the elderly are particularly vulnerable to malnutrition. A diagnosis of cancer in elderly patients further exacerbates risks of negative health outcomes. Here w...

Authors: Tatiane Correia Rios, Lucivalda Pereira Magalhães de Oliveira, Maria Lúcia Varjão da Costa, Ramona Souza da Silva Baqueiro Boulhosa, Anna Karla Carneiro Roriz, Lilian Barbosa Ramos and Allain Amador Bueno

Psycho-sexual influence of sterilization on women’s quality of life: a path model

Tubal ligation, as a permanent contraception method, have a negative and positive impact on women’s life. This study aimed to test a conceptual model considering the interrelated role of menorrhagia, body imag...

Authors: Samaneh Youseflu and Shahideh Jahanian Sadatmahalleh

Detecting response shift in health-related quality of life measurement among patients with hypertension using structural equation modeling

Outcomes derived from longitudinal self-reported health-related quality of life measures can be confounded by response shift. This study was aimed to detect response shift among patients with hypertension atte...

Authors: Hao Chen, Lin Zhu, Rui Zhou, Panpan Liu, Xiaoyang Lu, Donald L. Patrick, Todd C. Edwards and Hongmei Wang

Identification of the Urogenital Distress Inventory-6 and the Incontinence Impact Questionnaire-7 cutoff scores in urinary incontinent women

Urogenital Distress Inventory-6 (UDI-6), Incontinence Impact Questionnaire-7 (IIQ-7) and The International Consultation on Incontinence (ICIQ-SF) Short Form are used to diagnose individuals with urinary incont...

Authors: Katarzyna Skorupska, Magdalena Emilia Grzybowska, Agnieszka Kubik-Komar, Tomasz Rechberger and Pawel Miotla

Cross-cultural adaptation, validity and reliability of the Chinese Version of Miller Behavioral Style Scale

Health education basing on patients’ information-seeking styles can improve the effectiveness of health education and patients’ health outcomes. The Miller Behavioral Style Scale (MBSS) is widely used to ident...

Authors: Qiqi Zhuo, Changsheng Cui, Hongmin Liang, Yangjuan Bai, Qiulan Hu, Ardani Latifah Hanum, Mingfang Yang, Yanjiao Wang, Wei Wei, Lan Ding and Fang Ma

Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the Trunk Impairment Scale in people with a stroke

The Trunk Impairment Scale (TIS) has been translated into Chinese, but the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the TIS (TIS-C) have not yet been established. We aimed to examine the reliability a...

Authors: Jie Zhao, Janita Pak Chun Chau, Yuli Zang, Kai Chow Choi, Rong He, Yali Zhao, Xiaoqi Xiang, Qin Li and David R. Thompson

Health-related quality of life among patients with bipolar disorder in rural southwestern Uganda: a hospital based cross sectional study

Bipolar disorder is a psychiatric disorder that alters mood and affects over 55 million people globally with an estimated lifetime prevalence of approximately 0.8–1.1%. In Africa, the lifetime prevalence of th...

Authors: Lucas Anyayo, Scholastic Ashaba, Mark Mohan Kaggwa, Samuel Maling and Etheldreda Nakimuli-Mpungu

Quality of life in young and middle age adult temporomandibular disorders patients and asymptomatic subjects: a systematic review and meta-analysis

To compare the difference in the quality of life between temporomandibular disorders (TMD) patients and non-TMD subjects diagnosed with the Research Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (RDC/TMD...

Authors: Lucas Bozzetti Pigozzi, Duziene Denardini Pereira, Marcos Pascoal Pattussi, Carmen Moret-Tatay, Tatiana Quarti Irigaray, João Batista Blessmann Weber, Patrícia Krieger Grossi and Márcio Lima Grossi

Exploratory factor analysis of PROMIS-29 V1.0, PROMIS Global Health and the RAND SF-36 from chiropractic responders attending care in a practice-based research network

The SF-36 questionnaire is perhaps the most widely used quality of life instrument in the world today, while the PROMIS instruments continue to gain popularity. Given their continued use in chiropractic resear...

Authors: Joel Alcantara, Andrew Whetten, Cameron Zabriskie and Sharad Jones

Psychometric properties of the EQ-5D-5L for aboriginal Australians: a multi-method study

In Australia, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instruments have been adopted in national population surveys to inform policy decisions that affect the health of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. Ho...

Authors: Pedro Henrique Ribeiro Santiago, Dandara Haag, Davi Manzini Macedo, Gail Garvey, Megan Smith, Karen Canfell, Joanne Hedges and Lisa Jamieson

Confirmatory factor analysis and measurement invariance of the English, Mandarin, and Malay versions of the SF-12v2 within a representative sample of the multi-ethnic Singapore population

The Short Form Health Survey (SF-12v2) is an increasingly popular measure of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in Singapore. In order to examine whether the SF-12v2 was appropriate for use in the populati...

Authors: Jue Hua Lau, Edimansyah Abdin, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Saleha Shafie, Rajeswari Sambasivam, Shazana Shahwan, Julian Thumboo, Siow Ann Chong and Mythily Subramaniam

Effect of Buyang Huanwu decoction for the rehabilitation of ischemic stroke patients: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Buyang Huanwu decoction (BHD) is a widely used traditional Chinese medicine for the rehabilitation of ischemic stroke patients in China, but its clinical efficacy and safety have not been adequately assessed. ...

Authors: Li Gao, Zhuoran Xiao, Chunhua Jia and Wei Wang

Anxiety and depression are risk factors for recurrent pregnancy loss: a nested case–control study

To evaluate the interaction of depression and anxiety with the development of recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL).

Authors: Yanxia Wang, Zhaoyan Meng, Jianyin Pei, Liu Qian, Baohong Mao, Yamei Li, Jing Li, Zhirong Dai, Jianing Cao, Chunhua Zhang, Lina Chen, Yuxia Jin and Bin Yi

Does patient engagement affect IBD patients’ health-related quality of life? Findings from a cross-sectional study among people with inflammatory bowel diseases

Patients diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are required to deal with the unpredictability of this clinical condition, which is associated with poorer health-related quality of life (HRQoL) compar...

Authors: Serena Barello, Elena Guida, Salvatore Leone, Enrica Previtali and Guendalina Graffigna

EQ-5D-5L reference values for the German general elderly population

Reference values are a helpful tool to facilitate comparisons of sampled values against a specified reference population. The aim is to describe the health profile and to provide visual analogue scale (EQ VAS)...

Authors: Ole Marten and Wolfgang Greiner

Psychometric validation of the French self and proxy versions of the PedsQL™ 4.0 generic health-related quality of life questionnaire for 8–12 year-old children

The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Version 4.0 (PedsQL^TM4.0) is a generic health-related quality of life (HRQoL) questionnaire, widely used in pediatric clinical trials but not yet validated in France. We pe...

Authors: Pascal Amedro, Helena Huguet, Valerie Macioce, Raphael Dorka, Annie Auer, Sophie Guillaumont, Pascal Auquier, Hamouda Abassi and Marie-Christine Picot

Associations of resilience with quality of life levels in adults experiencing homelessness and mental illness: a longitudinal study

Homelessness constitutes a traumatic period that adversely impacts health and quality of life outcomes. The potential mitigating effects of resilience on quality of life levels in people experiencing homelessn...

Authors: Cilia Mejia-Lancheros, Julia Woodhall-Melnik, Ri Wang, Stephen W. Hwang, Vicky Stergiopoulos and Anna Durbin