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  1. The study attempted to explore the quality of life (QoL) of Chinese caregivers with mentally ill relatives. It also aimed to examine the differential roles of caregiving burdens, caregiver characteristics, and...

    Authors: Daniel Fu Keung Wong, Angus Yuk Kit Lam, Sau Kam Chan and Shuk Fan Chan
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:15
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  3. Adolescents and young adult (AYA) cancer survivors may have unique physical, psychological and social needs due to their cancer occurring at a critical phase of development. The aim of this study was to develo...

    Authors: Tara Clinton-McHarg, Mariko Carey, Rob Sanson-Fisher, Catherine D'Este and Anthony Shakeshaft
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:13
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  4. Quality of life (QOL) is an important measure in the management of Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS). Controversy exists in the findings of studies evaluating QOL in IBS subtypes, and little is known about this i...

    Authors: Raika Jamali, Arsia Jamali, Maryam Poorrahnama, Abdollah Omidi, Bardia Jamali, Neda Moslemi, Reza Ansari, Shahab Dolatshahi and Naser Ebrahimi Daryani
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:12
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  5. There are a significant number of Turkish speaking immigrants living in London. Their special health issues including women's health, mental health, and alcohol and smoking habits has been assessed. The aim of...

    Authors: Kenan Topal, Erhan Eser, Ismail Sanberk, Elizabeth Bayliss and Esra Saatci
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:11
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  6. Discrepancy between self-reports and parent-proxy reports of adolescent health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has been repeatedly acknowledged in the literature as the proxy problem. However, little is known ...

    Authors: Jane NT Sattoe, AnneLoes van Staa and Henriëtte A Moll
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:10
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  7. The 30-item Self-Management Ability Scale (SMAS) measures self-management abilities (SMA). Objectives of this study were to (1) validate the SMAS among older people shortly after hospitalisation and (2) shorte...

    Authors: Jane M Cramm, Mathilde MH Strating, Paul L de Vreede, Nardi Steverink and Anna P Nieboer
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:9
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  10. The objective this study was to investigate the influence of clinical conditions, socioeconomic status, home environment, subjective perceptions of parents and schoolchildren about general and oral health on s...

    Authors: Janice S Paula, Isabel CG Leite, Anderso B Almeida, Glaucia MB Ambrosano, Antônio C Pereira and Fábio L Mialhe
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:6
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  11. Individuals connected to supportive social networks have better general and oral health quality of life. The objective of this study was to assess whether there were differences in oral health related quality ...

    Authors: Gabriela A Lamarca, Maria do C Leal, Anna TT Leao, Aubrey Sheiham and Mario V Vettore
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:5
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  12. A validated instrument to assess the effects of chronic cough on health status in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is currently not available. The Leicester Cough Questionnaire (LCQ) ...

    Authors: Farida F Berkhof, Lisenka N Boom, Nynke E ten Hertog, Steven M Uil, Huib AM Kerstjens and Jan WK van den Berg
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:4
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  13. This study aimed to investigate the reliability and validity of the Iranian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™ 4.0) Generic Core Scales in children.

    Authors: Parisa Amiri, Ghazaleh Eslamian, Parvin Mirmiran, Niloofar Shiva, Mohammad Asghari Jafarabadi and Fereidoun Azizi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:3
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  14. Hierarchical scales are very useful in clinical practice due to their ability to discriminate precisely between individuals, and the original English version of the Myocardial Infarction Dimensional Assessment...

    Authors: Roger Watson, Wenru Wang, Chantal F Ski and David R Thompson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:2
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  15. Premenstrual disorders usually refer to premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD). This study was designed to evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a sample of Iranian...

    Authors: Mahin Delara, Fazlollah Ghofranipour, Parviz Azadfallah, Sedigheh Sadat Tavafian, Anoushirvan Kazemnejad and Ali Montazeri
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2012 10:1
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  17. In Turkey, formal pre-primary education for children 5- 6 years old provides the ideal setting for school-based oral health promotion programs and oral health care services. To develop effective oral health pr...

    Authors: Kadriye Peker, Ömer Uysal and Gülçin Bermek
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:118
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  18. The aim of the present study was to identify the physical fitness (PF) tests of a multi-component battery more related to the perception of problems in each dimension of the health-related quality of life (HRQ...

    Authors: Pedro R Olivares, Narcis Gusi, Josue Prieto and Miguel A Hernandez-Mocholi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:117
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  19. Capturing dimensions of physical activity relevant to patients may provide a unique perspective for clinical studies of chronically ill patients. However, the quality of the development of existing instruments...

    Authors: Anja Frei, Kate Williams, Anders Vetsch, Fabienne Dobbels, Laura Jacobs, Katja Rüdell and Milo A Puhan
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:116
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  20. Limited evidence exists on the determinants of quality of life (QoL) specific to adults with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Further, it appears no study has compared the determinants of QoL between T1D and type 2 diab...

    Authors: Ikuyo Imayama, Ronald C Plotnikoff, Kerry S Courneya and Jeffrey A Johnson
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:115
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  21. The Individualised Neuromuscular Quality of Life (INQoL) questionnaire is a published muscle disease specific measure of QoL that has been validated using both qualitative and quantitative methods in a United ...

    Authors: Reza Sadjadi, Kelly A Vincent, Alison J Carr, Jessica Walburn, Victoria L Brooks, Shree Pandya, John T Kissel, Carlayne E Jackson and Michael R Rose
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:114
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  22. To investigate the impact of pseudoxanthoma elasticum (PXE), a rare hereditary disease of concurrent vision impairment (VI) and cardiovascular complications (CVCs), on vision-related (VRQoL) and health-related...

    Authors: Robert P Finger, Eva Fenwick, Manjula Marella, Peter Charbel Issa, Hendrik PN Scholl, Frank G Holz and Ecosse L Lamoureux
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:113
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  23. The association between disease markers and health status (HS) overtime is unclear. The aim of this study was to verify the predictors of HS at baseline and after three years in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary D...

    Authors: Renata Ferrari, Suzana E Tanni, Laura MO Caram, Cristiane R Naves and Irma Godoy
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:112
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  24. To develop and validate a comprehensive patient-reported outcomes instrument focusing on the impact of dry eye on everyday life (IDEEL).

    Authors: Linda Abetz, Krithika Rajagopalan, Polyxane Mertzanis, Carolyn Begley, Rod Barnes and Robin Chalmers
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:111
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  25. Type 2 diabetes can seriously affect patients' health-related quality of life and their self-rated health. Most often, evaluation of diabetes interventions assess effects on glycemic control with little consid...

    Authors: Eva S Vadstrup, Anne Frølich, Hans Perrild, Eva Borg and Michael Røder
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:110
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  26. The current international interest in well-being indicators among governmental agencies means that many quality of life scales are potential components of such national indicator sets. Measuring well-being in ...

    Authors: Robert L Grant and Ann Bowling
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:109
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  27. To investigate the association between oral health literacy (OHL) and oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) and explore the racial differences therein among a low-income community-based group of female ...

    Authors: Kimon Divaris, Jessica Y Lee, A Diane Baker and William F Vann Jr
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:108
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  28. It has been shown that different symptoms or symptom combinations of neuropathic pain (NeP) may correspond to different mechanistic backgrounds and respond differently to treatment. The Neuropathic Pain Sympto...

    Authors: Daniel Ciampi de Andrade, Karine ASL Ferreira, Carine M Nishimura, Lyn T Yeng, Abrahão F Batista, Katia de Sá, Joaci Araujo, Patrick RNAG Stump, Helena H Kaziyama, Ricardo Galhardoni, Erich T Fonoff, Gerson Ballester, Telma Zakka, Didier Bouhassira and Manoel J Teixeira
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:107
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  29. To evaluate the validity of cancer-specific and generic preference-based instruments to discriminate across different measures of cancer severities.

    Authors: Paulos Teckle, Stuart Peacock, Helen McTaggart-Cowan, Kim van der Hoek, Stephen Chia, Barb Melosky and Karen Gelmon
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:106
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  30. It is important to monitor health related quality of life in order to determine the efficacy of interventions and physical functioning of patients with cystic fibrosis in their daily activities. There is no a ...

    Authors: Abebaw M Yohannes, Mary Dodd, Julie Morris and Kevin Webb
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:105
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  31. The aim of this study was to measure health related quality of life (HRQOL) in Iranian children with type 1 diabetes and to test the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Co...

    Authors: Peyman Jafari, Elham Forouzandeh, Zahra Bagheri, Zohreh Karamizadeh and Keivan Shalileh
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:104
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  32. The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) is widely used instrument to measure pediatric health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for children aged 2 to 18 years. The purpose of the current study was to i...

    Authors: Yi Ji, Siyuan Chen, Kai Li, Nong Xiao, Xue Yang, Shan Zheng and Xianmin Xiao
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:103
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  33. The aim of this study is to quantify the level of agreement between self-reporting and proxy-assessment of children's health-related quality of life using KINDL-R in a large population based study in Germany a...

    Authors: Ute Ellert, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, Michael Erhart and Bärbel-Maria Kurth
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:102
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  34. The objective of this research was to develop a disease-specific measure for fatigue in patients with motor neurone disease (MND) by generating data that would fit the Rasch measurement model. Fatigue was defi...

    Authors: Chris J Gibbons, Roger J Mills, Everard W Thornton, John Ealing, John D Mitchell, Pamela J Shaw, Kevin Talbot, A Tennant and Carolyn A Young
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:101
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  35. To investigate the role of three distinct symptoms of heart-focused anxiety (cardio-protective avoidance, heart-focused attention, and fear about heart sensations) in relation to general anxiety, depression and p...

    Authors: Anniken Hamang, Geir E Eide, Berit Rokne, Karin Nordin and Nina Øyen
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:100
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  36. The aim of this study was to systematically review the content validity and measurement properties of all physical function (PF) scales which are currently validated for use with patients with rheumatoid arthr...

    Authors: Martijn AH Oude Voshaar, Peter M ten Klooster, Erik Taal and Mart AFJ van de Laar
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:99
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  37. Deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) can affect importantly patients' quality of life (QOL). The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of the laparoscopic management of DIE on QOL after six months from ...

    Authors: Mohamed Mabrouk, Giulia Montanari, Manuela Guerrini, Gioia Villa, Serena Solfrini, Claudia Vicenzi, Giuseppe Mignemi, Letizia Zannoni, Clarissa Frasca, Nadine Di Donato, Chiara Facchini, Simona Del Forno, Elisa Geraci, Giulia Ferrini, Diego Raimondo, Stefania Alvisi…
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:98
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  38. To assess associations of obesity with health-related quality of life (HRQL) in postmenopausal women, and whether depressed mood and diabetes moderate these associations.

    Authors: Daniela A Heidelberg, Rolf Holle, Maria E Lacruz, Karl-Heinz Ladwig and Thomas von Lengerke
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:97
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  39. The use of patient reported outcome measures within cost-effectiveness analysis has become commonplace. However, specific measures are required that produce values, referred to as 'utilities', that are capable...

    Authors: Simon Dixon, Chris D Poole, Isaac Odeyemi, Peny Retsa, Colette Chambers and Craig J Currie
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:96
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  40. Modern drugs have made large contributions to better health and quality of life. Increasing proportions of negative side effects due to extensive pharmacological treatment are however observed especially among...

    Authors: Inger Nordin Olsson, Rebecka Runnamo and Peter Engfeldt
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:95
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  41. There is a possibility that genuine halitosis patients' anxiety do not recover after oral malodor treatment due to their social anxiety disorder. The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of...

    Authors: Takashi Zaitsu, Masayuki Ueno, Kayoko Shinada, Fredrick A Wright and Yoko Kawaguchi
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:94
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  42. Patients with newly diagnosed early stage prostate cancer (PCa) face a difficult choice of different treatment options with curative intention. They must consider both goals of optimising quantity and quality ...

    Authors: Peter Bach, Tanja Döring, Andreas Gesenberg, Cornelia Möhring and Mark Goepel
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:93
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  43. Instruments to measure mental health and well-being are largely developed and often used within Western populations and this compromises their validity in other cultures. A previous qualitative study in Singap...

    Authors: Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Mythily Subramaniam, Siow Ann Chong, Edimansyah Abdin, Maria Orlando Edelen, Louisa Picco, Yee Wei Lim, Mei Yen Phua, Boon Yiang Chua, Joseph YS Tee and Cathy Sherbourne
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:92
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  44. Treatment with oral anticoagulant may influence the quality of life perception as it promotes changes in the patient's life, not offering an evident symptomatic relief and presenting well defined risks, such a...

    Authors: Geisa de Queiroz Almeida, Lúcia de ACB Noblat, Luiz Carlos Santana Passos and Harrison Floriano do Nascimento
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:91
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  45. Existing literature on mood disorders suggests that the demographic distribution of bipolar disorder may differ from that of unipolar depression, and also that bipolar disorder may be especially disruptive to ...

    Authors: Nathan D Shippee, Nilay D Shah, Mark D Williams, James P Moriarty, Mark A Frye and Jeanette Y Ziegenfuss
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:90
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  46. The association between physical activity and quality of life in stroke survivors has not been analyzed within a framework related to the human development index. This study aimed to identify differences in ph...

    Authors: Felipe J Aidar, Ricardo J de Oliveira, António J Silva, Dihogo G de Matos, André L Carneiro, Nuno Garrido, Robert C Hickner and Victor M Reis
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:89
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  47. Bone metastases are a common painful and debilitating consequence of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CPRC). Bone pain may predict patients' prognosis and there is a need to further explore CRPC patients'...

    Authors: Adam Gater, Linda Abetz-Webb, Clare Battersby, Bhash Parasuraman, Stuart McIntosh, Faith Nathan and Elisabeth C Piault
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:88
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  48. Joint rehabilitation goals are an important component for effective teamwork in the rehabilitation field. The activities and participation domain of the ICF provides a common language for professionals when se...

    Authors: Michal Harty, Maryka Griesel and Aletia van der Merwe
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:87
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  49. Guidance documents for the development and validation of patient-reported outcomes (PROs) advise the use of conceptual frameworks, which outline the structure of the concept that a PRO aims to measure. It is u...

    Authors: Elena Gimeno-Santos, Anja Frei, Fabienne Dobbels, Katja Rüdell, Milo A Puhan and Judith Garcia-Aymerich
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:86
    Content type: Review Published on:

  50. Cancer Related Fatigue (CRF) and circadian rhythm have a great impact on the quality of life (HRQL) of patients with breast (BC) and colon cancer (CRC). Other patient related outcomes in oncology are measured ...

    Authors: Matthias Kröz, Marcus Reif, Arndt Büssing, Roland Zerm, Gene Feder, Angelina Bockelbrink, Hans Broder von Laue, Harald Matthes H, Stefan N Willich and Matthias Girke
    Citation: Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011 9:85
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