Quality of Life Research

Meaning-making and quality of life in heart failure interventions: a systematic review

Shane J. Sacco, Tricia M. Leahey, Crystal L. Park

A systematic review of randomised controlled trials evaluating the use of patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs)

• Review

S. Ishaque, J. Karnon, G. Chen, R. Nair, A. B. Salter

Is quality of life a suitable measure of patient decision aid effectiveness? Sub-analysis of a Cochrane systematic review

Claudia Rutherford, Madeleine T. King, Phyllis Butow, France Legare, Anne Lyddiatt, Intissar Souli, Orlando Rincones, Dawn Stacey

In proportion: approaches for displaying patient-reported outcome research study results as percentages responding to treatment

Elliott Tolbert, Michael Brundage, Elissa Bantug, Amanda L. Blackford, Katherine Smith, Claire Snyder

Implementing patient-reported outcome measures in clinical practice: a companion guide to the ISOQOL user’s guide

Eric K. H. Chan, Todd C. Edwards, Kirstie Haywood, Sean P. Mikles, Louise Newton

Interpretation and use of patient-reported outcome measures through a philosophical lens

• Commentary

Jae Yung Kwon, Sally Thorne, Richard Sawatzky

What matters most to sepsis survivors: a qualitative analysis to identify specific health-related quality of life domains

Christian König, Bastian Matt, Andreas Kortgen, Alison E. Turnbull, Christiane S. Hartog

Pre-injury health status of injured patients: a prospective comparison with the Dutch population

• Open Access

Max W. de Graaf, Inge H. F. Reininga, Klaus W. Wendt, Erik Heineman, Mostafa El Moumni

Determining clinically important differences in health-related quality of life in older patients with cancer undergoing chemotherapy or surgery

C. Quinten, C. Kenis, L. Decoster, P. R. Debruyne, I. De Groof, C. Focan, F. Cornelis, V. Verschaeve, C. Bachmann, D. Bron, S. Luce, G. Debugne, H. Van den Bulck, J. C. Goeminne, A. Baitar, K. Geboers, B. Petit, C. Langenaeken, R. Van Rijswijk, P. Specenier, G. Jerusalem, J. P. Praet, K. Vandenborre, M. Lycke, J. Flamaing, K. Milisen, J. P. Lobelle, H. Wildiers

Early quality-of-life and psychological predictors of disease-free time and survival in localized prostate cancer

• Open Access

Ulla-Sisko Lehto, Markku Ojanen, Anna Väkevä, Tadeusz Dyba, Arpo Aromaa, Pirkko Kellokumpu-Lehtinen

A randomised controlled trial comparing completeness of responses of three methods of collecting patient-reported outcome measures in men diagnosed with prostate cancer

• Brief Communication

Dewan Md. Emdadul Hoque, Arul Earnest, Rasa Ruseckaite, Paula Lorgelly, Fanny Sampurno, Melanie Evans, Sue M. Evans

Health-related quality of life among cancer survivors in rural China

Mingzhu Su, Xingxing Hua, Jialin Wang, Nengliang Yao, Deli Zhao, Weidong Liu, Yuewei Zou, Roger Anderson, Xiaojie Sun

Agreement of child and parent-proxy reported health-related quality of life in children with mental disorder

Irina I. Oltean, Mark A. Ferro

Quality of life and service satisfaction in outpatients with severe or non-severe mental illness diagnoses

• Open Access

Marian Ådnanes, Jorid Kalseth, Solveig Osborg Ose, Torleif Ruud, Jorun Rugkåsa, Stephen Puntis

Group singing improves depression and life quality in patients with stable COPD: a randomized community-based trial in China

• Open Access

Hua Liu, Mei Song, Zhong-Hui Zhai, Rui-Jie Shi, Xiao-Lan Zhou

Predicting change in quality of life from age 79 to 90 in the Lothian Birth Cohort 1921

• Open Access

Caroline E. Brett, Dominika Dykiert, John M. Starr, Ian J. Deary

Apathy and health-related quality of life in nursing home residents

Johanna M. H. Nijsten, Ruslan Leontjevas, Martin Smalbrugge, Raymond T. C. M. Koopmans, Debby L. Gerritsen

Does the ICECAP-O cover the physical, mental and social functioning of older people in the UK?

• Open Access

Mariska Q. N. Hackert, Job van Exel, Werner B. F. Brouwer

A pilot evaluation of the expanded prostate cancer index composite for clinical practice (EPIC-CP) tool in Ontario

M. D. Brundage, L. Barbera, F. McCallum, D. M. Howell

Psychometric properties of the Quality of Life Inventory-Disability (QI-Disability) measure

Jenny Downs, Peter Jacoby, Helen Leonard, Amy Epstein, Nada Murphy, Elise Davis, Dinah Reddihough, Andrew Whitehouse, Katrina Williams

Rasch validation of the Danish version of the shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI) in patients with rotator cuff-related disorders

• Brief Communication

Karl Bang Christensen, Kristian Thorborg, Per Hölmich, Mikkel Bek Clausen

A new scale for measuring quality of life in acquired brain injury

María Fernández, Laura E. Gómez, Víctor B. Arias, Virginia Aguayo, Antonio M. Amor, Nada Andelic, Miguel A. Verdugo

Validation of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS)-57 and -29 item short forms among kidney transplant recipients

Evan Tang, Oladapo Ekundayo, John Devin Peipert, Nathaniel Edwards, Aarushi Bansal, Candice Richardson, Susan J. Bartlett, Doris Howell, Madeline Li, David Cella, Marta Novak, Istvan Mucsi

Assessing the measurement invariance of the RCADS-25 questionnaire across gender and child–parent dyads in the presence of multilevel data

Zahra Bagheri, Mahsa Akbari, Peyman Jafari, Tania B. Huedo-medina

To bin or not to bin? A comparison of symptom frequency response formats in the assessment of health-related quality of life

Brooke E. Magnus, Mackenzie Kirkman, Twinkle Dutta, Manpreet Kaur, Nichole Mannchen