Quality of Life Research

Do individuals with and without depression value depression differently? And if so, why?

• Open Access

Katerina Papageorgiou, Karin M. Vermeulen, Maya J. Schroevers, Anne M. Stiggelbout, Erik Buskens, Paul F. M. Krabbe, Edwin van den Heuvel, Adelita V. Ranchor

Gender differences in psychological well-being: tests of factorial invariance

• Brief Communication

Ren-Hau Li, Chih-Mei Kao, Yi-Ying Wu

How well are we measuring postoperative “recovery” after abdominal surgery?

Lawrence Lee, Teodora Dumitra, Julio F. Fiore Jr., Nancy E. Mayo, Liane S. Feldman

Reliability and construct validity of PROMIS® measures for patients with heart failure who undergo heart transplant

Kathryn E. Flynn, Mary Amanda Dew, Li Lin, Maria Fawzy, Felicia L. Graham, Elizabeth A. Hahn, Ron D. Hays, Robert L. Kormos, Honghu Liu, Mary McNulty, Kevin P. Weinfurt

Factor structure and construct validity of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit for Carers (ASCOT-Carer)

• Open Access

Stacey E. Rand, Juliette N. Malley, Ann P. Netten, Julien E. Forder

Construction of a Quality of Life Questionnaire for slowly progressive neuromuscular disease

Antoine Dany, Coralie Barbe, Amandine Rapin, Christian Réveillère, Jean-Benoit Hardouin, Isabella Morrone, Aurore Wolak-Thierry, Moustapha Dramé, Arnaud Calmus, Sabrina Sacconi, Guillaume Bassez, Vincent Tiffreau, Isabelle Richard, Benjamin Gallais, Hélène Prigent, Redha Taiar, Damien Jolly, Jean-Luc Novella, François Constant Boyer

Evaluation of the stages of completion and scoring of the Patient Generated Index (PGI) in patients with rheumatic diseases

Andrew M. Garratt

A new perspective on proxy report: Investigating implicit processes of understanding through patient–proxy congruence

Carolyn E. Schwartz, Armon Ayandeh, Jonathan D. Rodgers, Paul Duberstein, Bianca Weinstock-Guttman, Ralph H. B. Benedict

Validation of the Community Integration Questionnaire in the adult burn injury population

• Brief Communication

Paul Gerrard, Lewis E. Kazis, Colleen M. Ryan, Vivian L. Shie, Radha Holavanahalli, Austin Lee, Alan Jette, James A. Fauerbach, Peter Esselman, David Herndon, Jeffrey C. Schneider

The development of summary components for the Disablement in the Physically Active scale in collegiate athletes

• Brief Communication

Megan N. Houston, Johanna M. Hoch, Bonnie L. Van Lunen, Matthew C. Hoch

Short-term quality of life in patients undergoing colonic surgery using enhanced recovery after surgery program versus conventional perioperative management

Hao Wang, Dexiang Zhu, Li Liang, Lechi Ye, Qi Lin, Yunshi Zhong, Ye Wei, Li Ren, Jianmin Xu, Xinyu Qin

Fatigue trajectories during the first 8 months after breast cancer diagnosis

Hanne Bødtcher, Pernille Envold Bidstrup, Ingelise Andersen, Jane Christensen, Birgitte Goldschmidt Mertz, Christoffer Johansen, Susanne Oksbjerg Dalton

Benefit finding predicts depressive and anxious symptoms in women with breast cancer

Yuping Wang, Xiongzhao Zhu, Jinyao Yi, Lili Tang, Jincai He, Gannong Chen, Lingyan Li, Yuling Yang

Six years beyond pediatric trauma: child and parental ratings of children’s health-related quality of life in relation to parental mental health

• Open Access

Kerstin Prignitz Sluys, Margaretha Lannge, Lennart Iselius, Lars E. Eriksson

Predicting factors of health-related quality of life in octogenarians: a 3-year follow-up longitudinal study

Assumpta Ferrer, Francesc Formiga, Oriol Cunillera, M. Jesús Megido, Xavier Corbella, Jesús Almeda

Complex coevolution of depression and health-related quality of life in old age

André Hajek, Christian Brettschneider, Annette Ernst, Carolin Lange, Birgitt Wiese, Jana Prokein, Siegfried Weyerer, Jochen Werle, Michael Pentzek, Angela Fuchs, Janine Stein, Horst Bickel, Edelgard Mösch, Kathrin Heser, Frank Jessen, Wolfgang Maier, Martin Scherer, Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, Hans-Helmut König

Medication adherence on quality of life among adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus: an exploratory analysis on the EDDMQoL study

Boon-How Chew

Long-term health-related quality of life for patients with Hirschsprung’s disease at 5 years after transanal endorectal pull-through operation

Marwa Khalil

Child and adolescent perceptions of oral health over the life course

Carl A. Maida, Marvin Marcus, Ron D. Hays, Ian D. Coulter, Francisco Ramos-Gomez, Steve Y. Lee, Patricia S. McClory, Laura V. Van, Yan Wang, Jie Shen, Li Cai, Vladimir W. Spolsky, James J. Crall, Honghu Liu

Subjective perceptions of cognitive deficits and their influences on quality of life among patients with schizophrenia

Alejandra Caqueo-Urízar, Laurent Boyer, Karine Baumstarck, Stephen E. Gilman

EQ-5D-3L as a health measure of Brazilian adult population

Renata de Miranda Menezes, Mônica Viegas Andrade, Kenya Valéria Micaela de Souza Noronha, Paul Kind

Örebro Questionnaire: short and long forms of the Brazilian-Portuguese version

Felipe Ribeiro Cabral Fagundes, Leonardo Oliveira Pena Costa, Fernanda Ferreira Fuhro, Ana Carolina Tacollini Manzoni, Naiane Teixeira Bastos de Oliveira, Cristina Maria Nunes Cabral

Turkish version of the Johns Hopkins Restless Legs Syndrome Quality of Life Questionnaire (RLS-QoL): validity and reliability study

• Brief Communication

Sibel Güler, F. Nesrin Turan

Psychometric properties and feasibility of the Swedish version of the Philadelphia Geriatric Center Morale Scale

Johan Niklasson, Mia Conradsson, Carl Hörnsten, Fredrica Nyqvist, Mojgan Padyab, Björn Nygren, Birgitta Olofsson, Hugo Lövheim, Yngve Gustafson

Health-related quality of life after stroke: reliability and validity of the Duke Health Profile for use in Vietnam

Pham L. Tran, C. Leigh Blizzard, Velandai Srikanth, Vo T. X. Hanh, Nguyen T. K. Lien, Nguyen H. Thang, Seana L. Gall