Quality of Life Research

Counseling interventions delivered in women with breast cancer to improve health-related quality of life: a systematic review

• Review

V. D’Egidio, C. Sestili, M. Mancino, I. Sciarra, R. Cocchiara, I. Backhaus, A. Mannocci, Alessandro De Luca, Federico Frusone, Massimo Monti, G. La Torre, Francesca Di Murro, Vanessa Palmeri, Lorenza Lia, Giulia Paradiso, Valerio Aceti, Annarita Libia

Does exercise training augment improvements in quality of life induced by energy restriction for obese populations? A systematic review

• Review

Daniel J. van den Hoek, Clint T. Miller, Steve F. Fraser, Steve E. Selig, John B. Dixon

Enrollment in early head start and oral health-related quality of life

Jacqueline M. Burgette, John S. Preisser, Morris Weinberger, Rebecca S. King, Jessica Y. Lee, R. Gary Rozier

Quality of life among adolescents living in residential youth care: do domain-specific self-esteem and psychopathology contribute?

Thomas Jozefiak, Nanna S. Kayed, Ingunn Ranøyen, Hanne K. Greger, Jan L. Wallander, Lars Wichstrøm

Relationships between environmental factors and participation in adults with traumatic brain injury, stroke, and spinal cord injury: a cross-sectional multi-center study

Alex W. K. Wong, Sheryl Ng, Jessica Dashner, M. Carolyn Baum, Joy Hammel, Susan Magasi, Jin-Shei Lai, Noelle E. Carlozzi, David S. Tulsky, Ana Miskovic, Arielle Goldsmith, Allen W. Heinemann

Tooth loss and general quality of life in dentate adults from Southern Brazil

Dandara Gabriela Haag, Karen Glazer Peres, David Simon Brennan

Race-specific associations between health-related quality of life and cellular aging among adults in the United States: evidence from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey

• Open Access

Rumana J. Khan, Samson Y. Gebreab, Pia R. Crespo, Ruihua Xu, Amadou Gaye, Sharon K. Davis

Associations between illness duration and health-related quality of life in specified mental and physical chronic health conditions: results from a population-based survey

Lucy Busija, Jeretine Tan, Kerrie M. Sanders

Lifetime traumatic events, health-related quality of life, and satisfaction with life in older adults

Catherine Lamoureux-Lamarche, Helen-Maria Vasiliadis

Comparison of quality of life among community-dwelling older adults with the frailty phenotype

Sergio Sánchez-García, Katia Gallegos-Carrillo, María Claudia Espinel-Bermudez, Svetlana V. Doubova, Rosalinda Sánchez-Arenas, Carmen García-Peña, Antoni Salvà, Silvia C. Briseño-Fabian

The impact of older person’s frailty on the care-related quality of life of their informal caregiver over time: results from the TOPICS-MDS project

• Open Access

Marloes Oldenkamp, Mariët Hagedoorn, Rafael Wittek, Ronald Stolk, Nynke Smidt

Predictors of health-related quality of life in maltreated children and adolescents

Sabine Weber, Andreas Jud, Markus A. Landolt, Lutz Goldbeck

Comparison of good days and sick days of school-age children with cancer reflected through their drawings

Lauri A. Linder, Heather Bratton, Anna Nguyen, Kori Parker, Susanna Phinney

Recovering from chronic myeloid leukemia: the patients’ perspective seen through the lens of narrative medicine

G. Graffigna, I. Cecchini, M. Breccia, E. Capochiani, R. Della Seta, S. Galimberti, A. Melosi, F. Simonetti, M. Pizzuti, S. F. Capalbo, F. Falzetti, P. Mazza, N. Di Renzo, L. Mastrullo, D. Rapezzi, E. Orlandi, T. Intermesoli, A. Iurlo, E. Pungolino, M. Pacilli

Acculturation matters in the relation between ambivalence over emotional expressions and well-being among Chinese American breast cancer survivors

William Tsai, Qian Lu

The prevalence and pattern of chemotherapy-induced peripheral neuropathy among women with breast cancer receiving care in a large community oncology practice

Natalie B. Simon, Michael A. Danso, Thomas A. Alberico, Ethan Basch, Antonia V. Bennett

Quality of life among survivors of early-stage cervical cancer in Taiwan: an exploration of treatment modality differences

Chia-Chun Li, Ting-Chang Chang, Yun-Fang Tsai, Lynn Chen

Relationship between subjective and actigraphy-measured sleep in 237 patients with metastatic colorectal cancer

Oxana Palesh, Karyn Haitz, Francis Lévi, Georg A. Bjarnason, Carl Deguzman, Igbal Alizeh, Ayhan Ulusakarya, Mary Melissa Packer, Pasquale F. Innominato

Factors associated with sexual quality of life among midlife women in Serbia

Tatjana Gazibara, Selmina Nurkovic, Nikolina Kovacevic, Ilma Kurtagic, Biljana Rancic, Sanja Radovanovic, Branislav Milosevic, Milan Terzic, Jelena Dotlic

Coping profiles and subjective well-being among people living with HIV: less intensive coping corresponds with better well-being

• Open Access

Marcin Rzeszutek, Ewa Gruszczyńska, Ewa Firląg-Burkacka

Distinguishing appraisal and personality influences on quality of life in chronic illness: introducing the quality-of-life Appraisal Profile version 2

Bruce D. Rapkin, Iliana Garcia, Wesley Michael, Jie Zhang, Carolyn E. Schwartz

A comprehensive questionnaire for the assessment of health-related quality of life in coeliac disease (CDQL)

Halfdan Skjerning, Jonathan Hourihane, Steffen Husby, Audrey DunnGalvin

Development of the life impact burn recovery evaluation (LIBRE) profile: assessing burn survivors’ social participation

Lewis E. Kazis, Molly Marino, Pengsheng Ni, Marina Soley Bori, Flor Amaya, Emily Dore, Colleen M. Ryan, Jeff C. Schneider, Vivian Shie, Amy Acton, Alan M. Jette

Item-level psychometrics of the ADL instrument of the Korean National Survey on persons with physical disabilities

Ickpyo Hong, Mi Jung Lee, Moon Young Kim, Hae Yean Park

Examining gender-related differential item functioning of the Veterans Rand 12-item Health Survey

• Brief Communication

Jae Yung Kwon, Richard Sawatzky