Quality of Life Research

Health-related quality of life in patients with extremity bone sarcoma after surgical treatment: a systematic review

• Review

Liam Fernando-Canavan, Patrick Abraham, Nancy Devlin, An Tran-Duy

Health-related quality of life of people with heart failure in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Review

Henok Mulugeta, Peter M. Sinclair, Amanda Wilson

Quality of life among people living with mental illness and predictors in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Open Access
• Review

Wondale Getinet Alemu, Clemence Due, Eimear Muir-Cochrane, Lillian Mwanri, Telake Azale, Anna Ziersch

Scoring the EQ-HWB-S: can we do it without value sets? A non-parametric item response theory analysis

• Open Access

You-Shan Feng, Thomas Kohlmann, Tessa Peasgood, Lidia Engel, Brendan Mulhern, A. Simon Pickard

Anchor-based minimal important difference values are often sensitive to the distribution of the change score

• Open Access

Werner Vach, Franziska Saxer

Minimal clinically important difference in the World Health Organization Quality of Life Brief (WHOQOL-BREF) for adults with neurofibromatosis

Malvina O. Pietrzykowski, Ana-Maria Vranceanu, Eric A. Macklin, Ryan A. Mace

Power analyses for measurement model misspecification and response shift detection with structural equation modeling

• Open Access

M. G. E. Verdam

Patient acceptable symptom state and treatment failure threshold values for work productivity and activity Impairment and EQ-5D-5L in osteoarthritis

• Open Access

Ali Kiadaliri, Anna Cronström, Leif E. Dahlberg, L. Stefan Lohmander

An effort to improve the collection of patient-generated data: readability and understandability of patient-reported outcomes measures in a survivorship cohort

Camila Chiodi, Jonathan Epstein, Johanna Arvis, Elise Martin, Aude Barbier, Antonio Di Meglio, Emma Gillanders, Guillemette Jacob, Gwenn Menvielle, Sibille Everhard, Francis Guillemin, Ines Vaz Luis, Maria Alice Franzoi

Evaluation of the internet-based intervention “Selfapy” in participants with unipolar depression and the impact on quality of life: a randomized, parallel group study

• Open Access

Cora Schefft, Rico Krämer, Raoul Haaf, David Jedeck, Anna Schumacher, Stephan Köhler

Social support during re-entry period and long-term quality of life in breast cancer survivors: a 10-year longitudinal cohort study

Hyeonjin Cho, Danbee Kang, Dong Wook Shin, Nayeon Kim, Se Kyung Lee, Jeong Eon Lee, Seok Jin Nam, Juhee Cho

Trajectory of health-related quality of life in parents of children treated with epilepsy surgery versus medical therapy

Elysa Widjaja, Klajdi Puka, Mary Lou Smith

Healthcare consumer acceptability of routine use of the EQ-5D-5L in clinical care: a cross-sectional survey

• Open Access

David A. Snowdon, Taya A. Collyer, Lucy Marsh, Velandai Srikanth, Richard Beare, Stephanie Baber, Kim Naude, Nadine E. Andrew

Health-related quality of life and associated risk factors in patients with Multiple Osteochondromas: a cross-sectional study

• Open Access

Manila Boarini, Morena Tremosini, Alessia Di Cecco, Maria Gnoli, Evelise Brizola, Marina Mordenti, Elena Pedrini, Manuela Locatelli, Marcella Lanza, Diego Antonioli, Giovanni Gallone, Gino Rocca, Eric L. Staals, Giovanni Trisolino, Luca Sangiorgi

Multimorbidity patterns and health-related quality of life among community-dwelling older adults: evidence from a rural town in Suzhou, China

Heng Lu, Xing-Xuan Dong, Dan-Lin Li, Xin-Yi Nie, Pei Wang, Chen-Wei Pan

Reciprocal association between pain and quality of life after newly acquired spinal cord injury

Maren Westphal, Valerie Carrard, Céline Braunwalder, Caroline Debnar, Marcel Post, Christine Fekete, Mayra Galvis, Anke Scheel-Sailer

Cross-cultural validity and reliability of the comprehensive assessment of acceptance and commitment therapy processes (CompACT) in people with multiple sclerosis

Ambra Mara Giovannetti, Rosalba Rosato, Ingrid Galán, Anna Toscano, Elisenda Anglada, Rebeca Menendez, Jürgen Hoyer, Paolo Confalonieri, Andrea Giordano, Kenneth Ian Pakenham, Jana Pöttgen, Alessandra Solari

Patient experiences in ulcerative colitis: conceptual model and review of patient-reported outcome measures

• Open Access

Chong Kim, Fiona L. Brown, Caroline Burk, Milena Anatchkova, Nashmel Sargalo, Ankita Kaushik

Measuring patient activation: the utility of the Patient Activation Measure administered in an interview setting

• Open Access

Magdalena Holter, Alexander Avian, Martin Weger, Sanja Strini, Monja Michelitsch, Katja Brenk-Franz, Andreas Wedrich, Andrea Berghold

Sexual health in Belgian cervical cancer survivors: an exploratory qualitative study

Eline Naert, Hans Van Hulle, Emiel A. De Jaeghere, Marjolein R. P. Orije, Sarah Roels, Rawand Salihi, Koen J. Traen, Kristien Watty, Lise-Marie Kinnaer, Hans Verstraelen, Philippe Tummers, Katrien Vandecasteele, Hannelore G. Denys

Understanding Canadian stakeholders’ views on measuring and valuing health for children and adolescents: a qualitative study

• Open Access

Feng Xie, Shitong Xie, Eleanor Pullenayegum, Arto Ohinmaa

Measuring reconceptualization and reprioritization during France’s first COVID-19-related lockdown in women with and without a history of cancer: an adaptation of the SeiQol-DW and PGI

Charlotte Bauquier, Stéphéline Ginguené, Tanguy Leroy, Marjolaine Doumergue, Natacha Lebrun, Claire Della Vecchia, Renaud Mabire-Yon, Sarah Leveaux, Luis Sagaon-Teyssier, Marie Préau

Correction: Reference values of EORTC QLQ-C30, EORTC QLQ-BR23, and EQ-5D-5L for women with non-metastatic breast cancer at diagnosis and 2 years after

• Open Access
• Correction

Carme Miret, Miren Orive, Maria Sala, Susana García-Gutiérrez, Cristina Sarasqueta, Maria Jose Legarreta, Maximino Redondo, Amado Rivero, Xavier Castells, José M. Quintana, Olatz Garin, Montse Ferrer, Mercè Comas, Laia Domingo, Francesc Macià, Marta Roman, Anabel Romero, Teresa Barata, Isabel Diez de la Lastra, Mariola de la Vega, Marisa Bare, Núria Torà, Joana Ferrer, Francesc Castanyer, Carmen Carmona, Susana García, Maximina Martín, Nerea Gonzalez, Maria Amparo Valverde, Alberto Saez, Inma Barredo, Manuel de Toro, Josefa Ferreiro, Jeanette Pérez, Cristina Valcárcel, María del Carmen Padilla, Teresa Téllez, Irene Zarcos, Cristina Churruca, Amaia Perales, Javier Recio, Irune Ruiz, Jose María Urraca, MªJesús Michelena, Julio Moreno, Gaizka Mallabiabarrena, Patricia Cobos, Borja Otero, Javier Gorostiaga, Itsaso Troya

Correction to: Measuring context that matters: Validation of the modular Tele-QoL patient-reported outcome and experience measure

• Open Access
• Correction

Klara Greffin, Holger Muehlan, Neeltje van den Berg, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Oliver Ritter, Michael Oeff, Sven Speerfork, Georg Schomerus, Silke Schmidt