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  1. People with dementia living at home represent a growing group of social care services users in England. Many are unable to complete questionnaires due to cognitive impairment. The ASCOT-Proxy is an adapted ver...

    Authors: Barbora Silarova, Stacey Rand, Ann-Marie Towers and Karen Jones
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:54
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  2. Authors: Jocelyn Mesías-Gazmuri, Cinta Folch, Jorge Palacio-Vieira, Andreu Bruguera, Laia Egea-Cortés, Carlos G. Forero, Juan Hernández, José M. Miró, Jordi Navarro, Melchor Riera, Joaquim Peraire, Lucía Alonso-García, Yesika Díaz, Jordi Casabona and Juliana Reyes-Urueña
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:53
    Content type: Correction Published on:

    The original article was published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:42

  3. This study aims to investigate the association between domain-specific physical activity (PA), sedentary behavior, subjective health perception, and health-related quality of life (HR-QoL) in Korean adults age...

    Authors: Jihee Min, Jae Seung Chang and In Deok Kong
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:52
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  4. The Cohen-Mansfield Agitation Inventory-Short Form (CMAI-SF) is a 14-item scale for assessing agitation and aggression, derived from the original 29-item CMAI, and completed by a proxy. Because the CMAI-SF has...

    Authors: André Kratzer, Jennifer Scheel-Barteit, Janissa Altona, Karin Wolf-Ostermann, Elmar Graessel and Carolin Donath
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:51
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  5. To investigate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA) in Guangzhou, China, and examine its association with selected sociodemographic characteristics as well as knee ...

    Authors: Jinghui Chang, Yuxin Yuan, Manru Fu and Dong Wang
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:50
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  6. The Generic Adherence for Chronic Diseases Profile is a French generic scale (GACID-P) developed to measure adherence in several disease areas such as cardiology, rheumatology, diabetes, cancer and infectiology.

    Authors: Christine Rotonda, F. Guillemin, T Conroy, C. Alleyrat, B. Lefevre, M. Soudant and C. Tarquinio
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:49
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  7. Health-related quality of life is a concept that includes aspects about physical, emotional and social well-being. The aim of the study was to validate the PedsQL for parent report for toddlers in Spain and pr...

    Authors: Melissa Liher Martínez-Shaw, Francisco Javier del Río and Yolanda Sánchez-Sandoval
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:48
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  8. Dental caries and child oral impact on daily performance (C-OIDP) have been linked in several studies. However, the studies used caries indices, which limit the ability to examine how C-OIDP prevalence varies ...

    Authors: Severine N Anthony, Febronia K Kahabuka, Nancy Birungi, Anne N Åstrøm, Seter Siziya and Hawa S Mbawalla
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:47
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  9. Understanding how health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is related to lifestyle factors during adolescence is crucial to effective health promotion. The aim of this analysis was to identify associations betwe...

    Authors: Jenny Davison, Brendan Bunting and Barbara Stewart-Knox
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:46
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  10. To analyze and synthesize the reported psychometric properties of the Fertility Quality of Life (FertiQoL) instrument and describe its implications for use in practice and research in men and women with infer...

    Authors: Brittany M. Woods, Leigh Ann Bray, Sukhkamal Campbell, Aimee Holland, Sylvie Mrug and Sigrid Ladores
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:45
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  11. Having a job has been associated with better Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) in cancer survivors. However, the sociodemographic and disease-related profiles characterizing the survivors being employed a...

    Authors: Y. Andreu, C. Picazo, S. Murgui, A. Soto-Rubio, A. García-Conde and R. Romero
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:44
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  12. The Warwick Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (WEMWBS) is validated for measuring mental wellbeing in populations aged 11 + and has been translated into 30 + languages. The aims of this study were a) to transla...

    Authors: Oyinlola Oyebode, Manuel Torres-Sahli, Deus Kapinga, Elizabeth Bruno-McClung, Rebecca Willans, Neha Shah, Lydia Wilbard, Louise Banham and Sarah Stewart-Brown
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:43
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  13. People living with HIV (PLWH) face structural and psychosocial factors that affect health-related quality of life (HRQoL). We aimed to evaluate how syndemic conditions affected HRQoL in PLWH.

    Authors: Jocelyn Mesías-Gazmuri, Cinta Folch, Jorge Palacio-Vieira, Andreu Bruguera, Laia Egea-Cortés, Carlos G. Forero, Juan Hernández, José M. Miró, Jordi Navarro, Melchor Riera, Joaquim Peraire, Lucía Alonso-García, Yesika Díaz, Jordi Casabona and Juliana Reyes-Urueña
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:42
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    The Correction to this article has been published in Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:53

  14. To evaluate the Oxford Knee Score (OKS), EQ-5D-5L utility index and EQ-5D visual analogue scale (EQ-VAS) for health-related quality of life outcome measurement in patients undergoing elective total knee arthro...

    Authors: D-Yin Lin, Tim Soon Cheok, Billingsley Kaambwa, Anthony J. Samson, Craig Morrison, Teik Chan, Hidde M. Kroon and Ruurd L. Jaarsma
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:41
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  15. Patients with treatment-resistant depression (TRD) report significant deficits in physical and mental health, as well as severely impaired health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and functioning. Esketamine eff...

    Authors: Carol Jamieson, Vanina Popova, Ella Daly, Kimberly Cooper, Wayne C. Drevets, Heather M. Rozjabek and Jaskaran Singh
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2023 21:40
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  16. 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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  17. 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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  18. 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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  19. 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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  20. 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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  21. 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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  22. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  25. 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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  26. 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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  27. 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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  28. 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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  29. 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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  30. 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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  31. 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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  33. 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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  34. 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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  35. 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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  37. 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
    Content type: Review Published on:

  38. 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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  39. 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

  40. 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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  41. 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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  42. 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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  43. 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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  44. 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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  45. 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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  46. 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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  47. 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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  48. 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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  49. 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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  50. 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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