Quality of Life Research

What is QOL in children and adolescents with physical disabilities? A thematic synthesis of pediatric QOL literature

• Review

Nikki Ow, Adriana Appau, Mohamad Matout, Nancy E. Mayo

Experience of women with breast cancer undergoing chemotherapy: a systematic review of qualitative research

• Review

Liping Liu, Yanni Wu, Weilian Cong, Mingyu Hu, Xiaoxia Li, Chunlan Zhou

Response-shift effects in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder: a secondary analysis of clinical trial data

• Open Access

Carolyn E. Schwartz, Roland B. Stark, Brian D. Stucky

Response-shift effects in neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder: estimating response-shift-adjusted scores using equating

• Open Access

Carolyn E. Schwartz, Roland B. Stark, Brian D. Stucky, Yuelin Li, Bruce D. Rapkin

Using structural equation modeling to investigate change and response shift in patient-reported outcomes: practical considerations and recommendations

• Open Access
• Commentary

M. G. E. Verdam, F. J. Oort, M. A. G. Sprangers

Health-related quality of life among Chinese primary care patients with different lower urinary tract symptoms: a latent class analysis

Edmond Pui Hang Choi, Jing Huang, Pui Hing Chau, Eric Yuk Fai Wan

Psychological risk factors that characterize the trajectories of quality of life after a physical trauma: a longitudinal study using latent class analysis

• Open Access

Eva Visser, Brenda Leontine Den Oudsten, Taco Gosens, Paul Lodder, Jolanda De Vries

Influences of health and environmental deprivation on family relationships among children with chronic disease

Elizabeth D. Cox, Mari Palta, Michael Lasarev, Alex T. Binder, Jenny R. Connolly, Kathryn E. Flynn

Evaluation of caregiver burden and coping strategies in parents of paediatric familial Mediterranean fever patients in relation to illness severity, therapy and health-related quality of life

Deniz Gezgin Yıldırım, Sevcan A. Bakkaloğlu, A. Şebnem Soysal Acar, Bülent Çelik, Necla Buyan

Patient-reported outcome measures in pediatric solid organ transplantation: Exploring stakeholder perspectives on clinical implementation through qualitative description

• Open Access

Samantha J. Anthony, Katarina Young, Sarah J. Pol, Enid K. Selkirk, Tom Blydt-Hansen, Suzanne Boucher, Aviva Goldberg, Lorraine Hamiwka, Lotte Haverman, Joanna Mitchell, Simon Urschel, Maria Santana, Jennifer Stinson, Katie Sutherland, Lori J. West

Gender differences in quality of life, physical activity, and risk of hypertension among sedentary occupation workers

Hanan E. Badr, Shashidhar Rao, Fahad Manee

Financial difficulties and patient-reported outcomes among patients with advanced heart failure

Chetna Malhotra, Filipinas Bundoc, Felicia Jia Ler Ang, Semra Ozdemir, Irene Teo, David Sim, Fazlur Rehman Jaufeerally, Than Aung, Eric Finkelstein

Quality of life under the COVID-19 quarantine

Lara N. Ferreira, Luís N. Pereira, Maria da Fé Brás, Kateryna Ilchuk

Quality of life of type 2 diabetes mellitus patients in Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate–Palestine: a part of the Palestinian diabetes complications and control study (PDCCS)

• Open Access

Anna Katharina Tietjen, Rula Ghandour, Nahed Mikki, Lars Jerdén, Jan W. Eriksson, Margareta Norberg, Abdullatif Husseini

Variables associated with poor health-related quality of life among patients with dyslipidemia in Jordan

Anan S. Jarab, Eman A. Alefishat, Walid Al-Qerem, Tareq L. Mukattash, Lina Abu-Zaytoun

Criteria for item selection for a preference-based measure for use in economic evaluation

• Open Access
• Commentary

Tessa Peasgood, Clara Mukuria, Jill Carlton, Janice Connell, John Brazier

Comparison of online and face-to-face valuation of the EQ-5D-5L using composite time trade-off

• Open Access

Ruixuan Jiang, James Shaw, Axel Mühlbacher, Todd A. Lee, Surrey Walton, Thomas Kohlmann, Richard Norman, A. Simon Pickard

Valuing health-related quality of life using a hybrid approach: Tunisian value set for the EQ-5D-3L

• Open Access

Jaafar Chemli, Chema Drira, Hajer Felfel, Bram Roudijk, Fatima Al Sayah, Mokhtar Kouki, Amna Kooli, Myriam Razgallah Khrouf

Utility estimations of health states of older Australian women with atrial fibrillation using SF-6D

Shazia S. Abbas, Tazeen Majeed, Natasha Weaver, Balakrishnan R. Nair, Peta M. Forder, Julie E. Byles

Properties of the EQ-5D-3L index distribution when longitudinal data from 27,328 spine surgery procedures are applied to nine national EQ-5D-3L value sets

Anders Joelson, Freyr Gauti Sigmundsson, Jan Karlsson

The measurement performance of the EQ-5D-5L versus EQ-5D-3L in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa

• Open Access

Alex Bató, Valentin Brodszky, L. Hunor Gergely, Krisztián Gáspár, Norbert Wikonkál, Ágnes Kinyó, Ákos Szabó, Zsuzsanna Beretzky, Andrea Szegedi, Éva Remenyik, Norbert Kiss, Miklós Sárdy, Fanni Rencz

Development of an EORTC questionnaire measuring instrumental activities of daily living (IADL) in patients with brain tumours: phase I–III

• Open Access

Quirien Oort, Linda Dirven, Sietske A. M. Sikkes, Neil Aaronson, Florien Boele, Christine Brannan, Jonas Egeter, Robin Grant, Martin Klein, Irene Lips, Yoshitaka Narita, Hitomi Sato, Monika Sztankay, Günther Stockhammer, Andrea Talacchi, Bernard M. J. Uitdehaag, Jaap C. Reijneveld, Martin J. B. Taphoorn

Using confirmatory factor analysis and Rasch analysis to examine the dimensionality of The Patient Assessment of Care for Chronic Illness Care (PACIC)

Sylvie Lambert, Jane McCusker, Eric Belzile, Mark Yaffe, Chidinma Ihejirika, Julie Richardson, Susan Bartlett

Development of screening questions for doctor–patient consultation assessing the quality of life and psychosocial burden of glioma patients: an explorative study

• Open Access

Hannah Voß, Peter Scholz-Kreisel, Christoph Richter, Florian Ringel, Susanne Singer, Mirjam Renovanz

Correction to: Deriving an overall appearance domain score by applying bifactor IRT analysis to the BODY‑Q appearance scales

• Open Access
• Correction

Daan Geerards, Lisa van den Berg, Andrea L. Pusic, Maarten M. Hoogbergen, Anne F. Klassen, René R. W. J. van der Hulst, Chris J. Sidey‑Gibbons