Quality of Life Research

Advances in nonparametric item response theory for scale construction in quality-of-life research

• Open Access
• Special Section: Non-parametric IRT

Klaas Sijtsma, L. Andries van der Ark

Combining EQ-5D-5L items into a level summary score: demonstrating feasibility using non-parametric item response theory using an international dataset

• Open Access
• Special Section: Non-parametric IRT

You-Shan Feng, Ruixuan Jiang, A. Simon Pickard, Thomas Kohlmann

A two-step, test-guided Mokken scale analysis, for nonclustered and clustered data

• Open Access
• Special Section: Non-parametric IRT

Letty Koopman, Bonne J. H. Zijlstra, L. Andries van der Ark

More flexible response functions for the PROMIS physical functioning item bank by application of a monotonic polynomial approach

• Special Section: Non-parametric IRT

Carl F. Falk, Felix Fischer

The Crit coefficient in Mokken scale analysis: a simulation study and an application in quality-of-life research

• Open Access
• Special Section: Non-parametric IRT

Daniela R. Crișan, Jorge N. Tendeiro, Rob R. Meijer

Evaluation of the link between the Guttman errors and response shift at the individual level

• Special Section: Non-parametric IRT

Yseulys Dubuy, Véronique Sébille, Marie Grall-Bronnec, Gaëlle Challet-Bouju, Myriam Blanchin, Jean-Benoit Hardouin

Non-parametric measurement for patient-reported outcomes

• Special Section: Non-parametric IRT

Jan R. Boehnke

Evidence on the relationship between PROMIS-29 and EQ-5D: a literature review

• Review

Tianxin Pan, Brendan Mulhern, Rosalie Viney, Richard Norman, An Tran-Duy, Janel Hanmer, Nancy Devlin

The influence of psychosocial factors on patient-reported outcome measures in rotator cuff tears pre- and post-surgery: a systematic review

• Review

Nicolò Panattoni, Umile Giuseppe Longo, Sergio De Salvatore, Nadia Saray Castro Castaneda, Laura Risi Ambrogioni, Michela Piredda, Maria Grazia De Marinis, Vincenzo Denaro

Quality of life and subjective sleep-related measures in bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder

• Open Access
• Review

Françoise Jermann, Nader Perroud, Sophie Favre, Jean-Michel Aubry, Hélène Richard-Lepouriel

Sexual orientation and quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS in China: evidence from an institutional-based cross-sectional study

Kaijie Liu, Feng Cheng, Hengjin Dong, Xuanjun Dong, Junfang Xu

How patients being treated for non-small cell lung cancer value treatment benefit despite side effects

• Open Access

Mona L. Martin, Julia Correll, Andrew Walding, Anna Rydén

The effect of treatment and coping on the quality of life in breast cancer patients: a moderated mediation model

Lorena Gutiérrez-Hermoso, Lilian Velasco-Furlong, Sofía Sánchez-Román, Elisabeth Berzal-Pérez, Natasha Alcocer-Castillejos, Paulina Quiroz-Friedman

Beyond viral suppression: Quality of life among stable ART clients in a differentiated service delivery intervention in Tanzania

• Open Access

Nwanneka Ebelechukwu Okere, Veronica Censi, Clementina Machibya, Kathleen Costigan, P. Katambi, Giulia Martelli, Josien de Klerk, Sabine Hermans, Gabriela B. Gomez, Anton Pozniak, Tobias Rinke de Wit, Denise Naniche

Health-related quality of life and associated factors in HIV-positive transplant candidates and recipients from a HIV-positive donor

Claire Juliet Martin, Elmi Muller, Demetre Labadarios, Frederick Johannes Veldman, Susanna Maria Kassier

Concern about addiction is associated with lower quality of life in patients with osteoarthritis: an exploratory, real-world data analysis

• Open Access

Louis P. Garrison, Patricia Schepman, Andrew G. Bushmakin, Rebecca L. Robinson, Leslie Tive, Jerry Hall, Mendwas Dzingina, James Jackson, Mia Berry, Joseph C. Cappelleri, Stuart Silverman

Assessing forgetfulness and polypharmacy and their impact on health-related quality of life among patients with hypertension and dyslipidemia in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kyriakos Souliotis, Theodoros V. Giannouchos, Chistina Golna, Evangelos Liberopoulos

Measurement invariance of the short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale and latent mean differences (SWEMWBS) in young people by current care status

• Open Access

Rebecca Anthony, Graham Moore, Nicholas Page, Gillian Hewitt, Simon Murphy, G. J. Melendez-Torres

Developing and testing a cognitive bolt-on for the EQ-5D-Y (Youth)

• Open Access

Kristina Ludwig, Bastian Surmann, Eva Räcker, Wolfgang Greiner

Association between 24-hour movement behaviors and health-related quality of life in children

Xiuqin Xiong, Kim Dalziel, Natalie Carvalho, Rongbin Xu, Li Huang

Patients’ and parents’ perspective on the implementation of Patient Reported Outcome Measures in pediatric clinical practice using the KLIK PROM portal

• Open Access

Maud M. van Muilekom, Lorynn Teela, Hedy A. van Oers, Johannes B. van Goudoever, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Lotte Haverman

Correction to: Patients’ and parents’ perspective on the implementation of Patient Reported Outcome Measures in pediatric clinical practice using the KLIK PROM portal

• Open Access
• Correction

Maud M. van Muilekom, Lorynn Teela, Hedy A. van Oers, Johannes B. van Goudoever, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Lotte Haverman

Development of a preference-based heart disease-specific health state classification system using MacNew heart disease-related quality of life instrument

Sanjeewa Kularatna, Donna Rowen, Clara Mukuria, Steven McPhail, Gang Chen, Brendan Mulhern, Jennifer A. Whitty, Joshua Byrnes, Paul Scuffham, John Atherton, Stefan Höfer, William Parsonage

Psychometric properties of the PROMIS-57 questionnaire, Norwegian version

• Open Access

Stein Arne Rimehaug, Aaron J. Kaat, Jan Egil Nordvik, Mari Klokkerud, Hilde Stendal Robinson

Development of a physical function outcome measure to harmonize comparisons between three Asian adult populations

Ickpyo Hong, Kimberly P. Hreha, Claudia L. Hilton, Mi Jung Lee

Cross-cultural adaptation of the SWAL-QOL and the Sydney Swallow Questionnaire (SSQ) into French-Canadian and preliminary assessment for their use in an oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) population

Claudia Côté, Julie Fortin, Bernard Brais, Sarah Youssof, Cynthia Gagnon

Comparison of patient- and clinician-reported outcome measures in lower back rehabilitation: introducing a new integrated performance measure (t2D)

• Open Access

Andrej Zdravkovic, Vincent Grote, Michael Pirchl, Martin Stockinger, Richard Crevenna, Michael J. Fischer