Quality of Life Research

Response shift results of quantitative research using patient-reported outcome measures: a descriptive systematic review

• Open Access
• Review

Richard Sawatzky, Tolulope T. Sajobi, Lara Russell, Oluwagbohunmi A. Awosoga, Ayoola Ademola, Jan R. Böhnke, Oluwaseyi Lawal, Anita Brobbey, Lisa M. Lix, Amelie Anota, Véronique Sebille, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers, Mathilde G. E. Verdam

Preference-based measures of health-related quality of life in Indigenous people: a systematic review

• Open Access
• Review

Lilla M. Roy, Aidan Neill, Kristen Swampy, Juliette Auger, Sandra M. Campbell, Susan Chatwood, Fatima Al Sayah, Jeffrey A. Johnson

Psychometric evaluation of the WHOQOL-BREF and its shorter versions for general Thai population: confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis

Krittaphas Kangwanrattanakul, Christian U. Krägeloh

Alcohol consumption and health-related quality of life in regional, rural and metropolitan Australia: analysis of cross-sectional data from the Community Health and Rural/Regional Medicine (CHARM) study

• Open Access

Lisa Redwood, Karli Saarinen, Rowena Ivers, David Garne, Paul de Souza, Andrew Bonney, Joel Rhee, Judy Mullan, Susan J. Thomas

Lower quality of life in obese ICU survivors: a multicenter cohort study

Mirceli Goulart Barbosa, Daniel Sganzerla, Adriana Cristine Koch Buttelli, Cassiano Teixeira

A concept elicitation study to understand the relationship between sleep and pain in rheumatoid arthritis and axial spondyloarthritis

• Open Access

Kimberly Raymond, Wen-Hung Chen, Marguerite Bracher, April Foster, Andrew Lovley, Cory Saucier, Kristi Jackson, Eleanor J. McDermott

The effect of depressive symptoms on quality of life and its different facets in the oldest age population: evidence from the AgeQualiDe prospective cohort study

• Open Access

Paula Liegert, Alexander Pabst, Ines Conrad, Hendrik van den Bussche, Marion Eisele, André Hajek, Kathrin Heser, Luca Kleineidam, Siegfried Weyerer, Jochen Werle, Michael Pentzek, Dagmar Weeg, Edelgard Mösch, Birgitt Wiese, Anke Oey, Michael Wagner, Wolfgang Maier, Hans-Helmut König, Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, Martin Scherer, Melanie Luppa

Personal and perceived stigma in relation to diverse domains of quality of life among patients with major depressive disorder having residual symptoms: a hospital-based cross-sectional study in Thailand

Jarurin Pitanupong, Warut Aunjitsakul

Mapping the 12-item World Health Organization disability assessment schedule 2.0 (WHODAS 2.0) onto the assessment of quality of life (AQoL)-4D utilities

• Open Access

Bernice Hua Ma, Gang Chen, Samia Badji, Dennis Petrie

Caught between pity, explicit bias, and discrimination: a qualitative study on the impact of stigma on the quality of life of persons living with sickle cell disease in three African countries

• Open Access

Nchangwi Syntia Munung, Marsha Treadwell, Karen Kengne Kamga, Jemima Dennis-Antwi, Kofi Anie, Daima Bukini, Julie Makani, Ambroise Wonkam

The impact of a neuromuscular rehabilitation programme on the quality of life of patients with acute coronary syndrome and its relationship with sexual dysfunction: a randomised controlled trial

Noemí Valtueña-Gimeno, Francisco José Ferrer-Sargues, Oscar Fabregat-Andrés, Isabel Martínez-Hurtado, F. J. Martínez-Olmos, Marta Lluesma-Vidal, María Dolores Arguisuelas

"not one size fits all” The challenges of measuring paediatric health-related quality of life and the potential role of digital ecological momentary assessment: a qualitative study

• Open Access

Holly Fraser, Lauren Thompson, Esther Crawley, Matthew J. Ridd, Amberly Brigden

Quality of life of the Canadian population using the VR-12: population norms for health utility values, summary component scores and domain scores

• Open Access

Logan Trenaman, Daphne Guh, Nick Bansback, Richard Sawatzky, Huiying Sun, Lena Cuthbertson, David G. T. Whitehurst

Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) after different axillary treatments in women with breast cancer: a 1-year longitudinal cohort study

• Open Access

N. J. M. C. Vrancken Peeters, Z. L. R. Kaplan, M. E. Clarijs, M. A. M. Mureau, C. Verhoef, T. van Dalen, O. Husson, L. B. Koppert

Mood assessments of family caregivers of patients with severe brain injury in China

Yifan Yan, Meiqi Li, Tiantian Cai, Xueying Wang, Yan Dong, Xiaohua Hu, Steven Laureys, Olivia Gosseries, Charlotte Grégoire, Haibo Di

Mapping the EORTC QLQ-C30 and QLQ H&N35 to the EQ-5D-5L and SF-6D for papillary thyroid carcinoma

Deyu Huang, Dingfen Zeng, Yuan Tang, Longlin Jiang, Qing Yang

Home care and quality of life among community-dwelling dependent older adults in Israel: a multiple mediator model

Rabia Khalaila, Adi Vitman-Schorr

What does better look like in individuals with severe neurodevelopmental impairments? A qualitative descriptive study on SCN2A-related developmental and epileptic encephalopathy

• Open Access

Jenny Downs, Natasha N. Ludwig, Mary Wojnaroski, Jessica Keeley, Leah Schust Myers, Chere A. T. Chapman, JayEtta Hecker, Gabrielle Conecker, Anne T. Berg

Surgical prioritization based on decision model outcomes is not sensitive to differences between the health-related quality of life values estimates of physicians and citizens

• Open Access

Anouk M. I. A. van Alphen, Eline M. Krijkamp, Benjamin Y. Gravesteijn, Robert J. Baatenburg de Jong, Jan J. Busschbach

Health-related quality of life after hip fracture: effects of a 12-month home-based exercise intervention—secondary analyses of an RCT

Paula K. Soukkio, Sara A. Suikkanen, Harri Sintonen, Katriina T. Kukkonen-Harjula, Hannu Kautiainen, Sanna M. Kääriä, Markku T. Hupli, Eeva M. Aartolahti, Kaisu H. Pitkälä, Sarianna Sipilä

A leaky gut contributes to reduced sarcopenia-related quality of life (SarQoL) in geriatric older adults

Rizwan Qaisar, M. Shahid Iqbal, Asima Karim, Tahir Muhammad, Firdos Ahmad

Quality of life in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis and osteopenia: associations with bone microarchitecture and nutritional status

Marin Mornar, Anela Novak, Josko Bozic, Josip Vrdoljak, Marko Kumric, Tina Vilovic, Ivan Rakovic, Tina Ticinovic Kurir, Dinko Martinovic, Hrvoje Urlic, Marino Vilovic

Perceived health- related quality of life in persons with multiple sclerosis with and without a vascular comorbidity

Lindsay O. Neto, Jennifer A. Ruiz, Elizabeth S. Gromisch