Quality of Life Research

Measuring the impact of informal elderly caregiving: a systematic review of tools

• Review

Isabel Mosquera, Itziar Vergara, Isabel Larrañaga, Mónica Machón, María del Río, Carlos Calderón

Time and chronic illness: a narrative review

• Review

Tanisha Jowsey

Patient-reported outcomes: pathways to better health, better services, and better societies

• Commentary

N. Black, L. Burke, C. B. Forrest, U. H. Ravens Sieberer, S. Ahmed, J. M. Valderas, S. J. Bartlett, J. Alonso

Whose quality of life is it anyway? Discrepancies between youth and parent health-related quality of life ratings in type 1 and type 2 diabetes

Joyce P. Yi-Frazier, Marisa E. Hilliard, Nora F. Fino, Michelle J. Naughton, Angela D. Liese, Christine W. Hockett, Korey K. Hood, Catherine Pihoker, Michael Seid, Wei Lang, Jean M. Lawrence

Evaluation of mode equivalence of the MSKCC Bowel Function Instrument, LASA Quality of Life, and Subjective Significance Questionnaire items administered by Web, interactive voice response system (IVRS), and paper

Antonia V. Bennett, Kathleen Keenoy, Marwan Shouery, Ethan Basch, Larissa K. Temple

Language bias and self-rated health status among the Latino population: evidence of the influence of translation in a wording experiment

• Brief Communication

Gabriel R. Sanchez, Edward D. Vargas

Does reporting behaviour bias the measurement of social inequalities in self-rated health in Indonesia? An anchoring vignette analysis

• Open Access

Wulung Hanandita, Gindo Tampubolon

Application of the eight-item modified medical outcomes study social support survey in Japan: a national representative cross-sectional study

Taisuke Togari, Yukari Yokoyama

Gender differences in the effect of social support on health-related quality of life: results of a population-based prospective cohort study in old age in Germany

André Hajek, Christian Brettschneider, Carolin Lange, Tina Posselt, Birgitt Wiese, Susanne Steinmann, Siegfried Weyerer, Jochen Werle, Michael Pentzek, Angela Fuchs, Janine Stein, Tobias Luck, Horst Bickel, Edelgard Mösch, Steffen Wolfsgruber, Kathrin Heser, Wolfgang Maier, Martin Scherer, Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, Hans-Helmut König

Cumulative and bidirectional association of physical activity and sedentary behaviour with health-related quality of life in adolescents

Abdou Y. Omorou, Johanne Langlois, Edith Lecomte, Serge Briançon, Anne Vuillemin

Patient-relevant needs and treatment goals in nail psoriasis

C. Blome, A. Costanzo, E. Dauden, C. Ferrandiz, G. Girolomoni, R. Gniadecki, L. Iversen, A. Menter, K. Michaelis-Wittern, A. Morita, H. Nakagawa, K. Reich, M. Augustin

Changes in life-space mobility and quality of life among community-dwelling older people: a 2-year follow-up study

Merja Rantakokko, Erja Portegijs, Anne Viljanen, Susanne Iwarsson, Markku Kauppinen, Taina Rantanen

Treatment satisfaction in type 2 diabetes patients taking empagliflozin compared with patients taking glimepiride

• Open Access

Costel Chirila, Qingyao Zheng, Eric Davenport, Dagmar Kaschinski, Egon Pfarr, Thomas Hach, Roberto Palencia

The effects of the Make a Wish intervention on psychiatric symptoms and health-related quality of life of children with cancer: a randomised controlled trial

Anat Shoshani, Keren Mifano, Johanna Czamanski-Cohen

The burden of neck pain: its meaning for persons with neck pain and healthcare providers, explored by concept mapping

• Open Access

Carlijn H. van Randeraad-van der Zee, Anna J. H. M. Beurskens, Raymond A. H. M. Swinkels, Jan J. M. Pool, Roy W. Batterham, Richard H. Osborne, Henrica C. W. de Vet

Living with invisible illness: social support experiences of individuals with systemic lupus erythematosus

Kirby A. M. Brennan, Ann-Marie Creaven

Health-related quality of life in two randomized controlled trials of phentermine/topiramate for obesity: What mediates improvement?

Ronette L. Kolotkin, Kishore M. Gadde, Craig A. Peterson, Ross D. Crosby

Interaction between the Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire and the Pocock’s clinical score in predicting heart failure outcomes

• Open Access

Kiswendsida Sawadogo, Jérôme Ambroise, Steven Vercauteren, Marc Castadot, Michel Vanhalewyn, Jacques Col, Annie Robert

Neurocognitive complaints and functional status among patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia

Karen B. Schmaling, Karran L. Betterton

Religion as problem, religion as solution: religious buffers of the links between religious/spiritual struggles and well-being/mental health

Hisham Abu-Raiya, Kenneth I. Pargament, Neal Krause

Effects of motivational enhancement therapy plus cognitive behaviour therapy on depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life in adults with type II diabetes mellitus: a randomised controlled trial

Chiung-Yu Huang, Hui-Ling Lai, Chun-I Chen, Yung-Chuan Lu, Su-Chen Li, Long-Whou Wang, Yi Su

The course of health status and (health-related) quality of life following fracture of the lower extremity: a 6-month follow-up study

• Open Access

M. A. C. Van Son, J. De Vries, J. A. Roukema, T. Gosens, M. H. J. Verhofstad, B. L. Den Oudsten

Developing a measure of medication-related quality of life for people with polypharmacy

Hsu-Min Tseng, Chia-Hui Lee, Yin-Jen Chen, Hsiang-Hao Hsu, Li-Yueh Huang, Jing-Long Huang

Validation of the Recovery Assessment Scale for Chinese in recovery of mental illness in Hong Kong

Winnie W. S. Mak, Randolph C. H. Chan, Sania S. W. Yau

Normative values of EQ-5D-5L: in a Spanish representative population sample from Spanish Health Survey, 2011

• Brief Communication

M. A. Garcia-Gordillo, J. C. Adsuar, P. R. Olivares