Quality of Life Research

Reporting and dealing with missing quality of life data in RCTs: has the picture changed in the last decade?

• Open Access
• Review

S. Fielding, A. Ogbuagu, S. Sivasubramaniam, G. MacLennan, C. R. Ramsay

A systematic review of measurement properties of the instruments measuring health-related quality of life in patients with irritable bowel syndrome

• Review

Jiyeon Lee, Eun-Hyun Lee, Seung Hei Moon

The impact of a belief in life after death on health-state preferences: True difference or artifact?

Michał Jakubczyk, Dominik Golicki, Maciej Niewada

EQ-5D-derived health utilities and minimally important differences for chronic health conditions: 2011 Commonwealth Fund Survey of Sicker Adults in Canada

Kate Tsiplova, Eleanor Pullenayegum, Tim Cooke, Feng Xie

Measurement of utility in asthma: evidence indicating that generic instruments may miss clinically important changes

Patrick W. Sullivan, Vahram H. Ghushchyan, Jonathan D. Campbell, Gary Globe, Bruce Bender, David J. Magid

The role of mindfulness in distress and quality of life for men with advanced prostate cancer

• Open Access

Suzanne K. Chambers, Elizabeth Foley, Samantha Clutton, Robert McDowall, Stefano Occhipinti, Martin Berry, Martin R. Stockler, Stephen J. Lepore, Mark Frydenberg, Robert A. Gardiner, Ian D. Davis, David P. Smith

Stigma as a key determinant of health-related quality of life in Parkinson’s disease

Hui-Ing Ma, Marie Saint-Hilaire, Cathi A. Thomas, Linda Tickle-Degnen

Objective drivers of subjective well-being in geriatric inpatients: mobility function and level of education are general predictors of self-evaluated health, feeling of loneliness, and severity of depression symptoms

• Open Access

Barbara Bień, Katarzyna Bień-Barkowska

Anthropometric measures change and quality of life in elderly people: a longitudinal population-based study in Southern Brazil

Ana Aparecida Tessari, Maruí Weber Corseuil Giehl, Ione Jayce Ceola Schneider, David Alejandro González-Chica

Longitudinal assessment of health related quality of life of HIV infected patients treated for tuberculosis and HIV in a high burden setting

Thuli Mthiyane, Alex Pym, Keertan Dheda, Roxana Rustomjee, T. Reddy, Shamila Manie

Association of circulating 25-hydroxyvitamin D with mental well-being in a population-based, nationally representative sample of German adolescents

Theresa Katharina Schäfer, Christoph Herrmann-Lingen, Thomas Meyer

Health-related quality of life of among elders in rural China: the effect of widowhood

• Open Access

Jianfang Zhou, Norman Hearst

Health-related quality of life in haemodialysis patients suffering from chronic itch: results from GEHIS (German Epidemiology Haemodialysis Itch Study)

Melanie Weiss, Thomas Mettang, Ulrich Tschulena, Elke Weisshaar

Quality-of-life assessment in dementia: the use of DEMQOL and DEMQOL-Proxy total scores

• Open Access

Kia-Chong Chua, Anna Brown, Ryan Little, David Matthews, Liam Morton, Vanessa Loftus, Caroline Watchurst, Rhian Tait, Renee Romeo, Sube Banerjee

Ten-year follow-up of health-related quality of life among ambulatory persons with multiple sclerosis at baseline

Aki Rintala, Arja Häkkinen, Jaana Paltamaa

Associations between daily physical activity, handgrip strength, muscle mass, physical performance and quality of life in prefrail and frail community-dwelling older adults

• Open Access

Sandra Haider, Eva Luger, Ali Kapan, Sylvia Titze, Christian Lackinger, Karin E. Schindler, Thomas E. Dorner

Asymmetric responsiveness of disability and health-related quality of life to improvement versus decline in Parkinson’s disease

Dronacharya Lamichhane, Ann L. Gruber-Baldini, Stephen G. Reich, Lisa M. Shulman

QOL and sociodemographic factors among first-time parents in Japan: a multilevel analysis

Naomi Yoshitake, Yi Sun, Masumi Sugawara, Satoko Matsumoto, Atsushi Sakai, Junko Takaoka, Noriko Goto

Three-year trajectories of global perceived quality of life for youth with chronic health conditions

• Open Access

Janette McDougall, David J. DeWit, Megan Nichols, Linda Miller, F. Virginia Wright

The validity of the Satisfaction with Life Scale in adolescents and a comparison with single-item life satisfaction measures: a preliminary study

Veljko Jovanović

Interpretation of verbal descriptors for response options commonly used in verbal rating scales in patient-reported outcome instruments

Alex Mutebi, Marion Slack, Terri L. Warholak, Stacie Hudgens, Stephen Joel Coons

Applying generalizability theory methods to assess continuity and change on the Adolescent Quality of Life-Mental Health Scale (AQOL-MHS)

Ligia M. Chavez, Pedro Garcia, Nyrma Ortiz, Patrick E. Shrout

Psychometric assessment of the IBS-D Daily Symptom Diary and Symptom Event Log

• Open Access

Kathleen Rosa, Leticia Delgado-Herrera, Bernie Zeiher, Benjamin Banderas, Rob Arbuckle, Glen Spears, Stacie Hudgens

Deriving population norms for the AQoL-6D and AQoL-8D multi-attribute utility instruments from web-based data

Aimee Maxwell, Mehmet Özmen, Angelo Iezzi, Jeff Richardson

The e-MSWS-12: improving the multiple sclerosis walking scale using item response theory

Matthew M. Engelhard, Karen M. Schmidt, Casey E. Engel, J. Nicholas Brenton, Stephen D. Patek, Myla D. Goldman