Quality of Life Research

Manual lymphatic drainage and quality of life in patients with lymphoedema and mixed oedema: a systematic review of randomised controlled trials

• Open Access
• Review

Martin Müller, Karsten Klingberg, Maria M. Wertli, Helena Carreira

Measurement properties of depression questionnaires in patients with diabetes: a systematic review

• Open Access
• Review

Susan E. M. van Dijk, Marcel C. Adriaanse, Lennart van der Zwaan, Judith E. Bosmans, Harm W. J. van Marwijk, Maurits W. van Tulder, Caroline B. Terwee

Health-related quality of life of survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia: a systematic review

• Review

J. Vetsch, C. E. Wakefield, E. G. Robertson, T. N. Trahair, M. K. Mateos, M. Grootenhuis, G. M. Marshall, R. J. Cohn, J. E. Fardell

Children on dialysis as well as renal transplanted children report severely impaired health-related quality of life

• Open Access

Anouck Splinter, Lidwien A. Tjaden, Lotte Haverman, Brigitte Adams, Laure Collard, Karlien Cransberg, Maria van Dyck, Koen J. Van Hoeck, Bernd Hoppe, Linda Koster-Kamphuis, Marc R. Lilien, Ann Raes, Christina Taylan, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Jaap W. Groothoff

How does age affect the relationship between weight and health utility during the middle years of childhood?

• Open Access

Katie Eminson, Alastair Canaway, Peymané Adab, Emma Lancashire, Miranda Pallan, Emma Frew

Differences in health-related quality of life by academic performance in children of the city of Cordoba-Argentina

Emilse Degoy, Silvina Berra

Human development index, children’s health-related quality of life and movement behaviors: a compositional data analysis

Dorothea Dumuid, Carol Maher, Lucy K. Lewis, Tyman E. Stanford, Josep Antoni Martín Fernández, Julie Ratcliffe, Peter T. Katzmarzyk, Tiago V. Barreira, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Mikael Fogelholm, Gang Hu, José Maia, Olga L. Sarmiento, Martyn Standage, Mark S. Tremblay, Catrine Tudor-Locke, Timothy Olds

Health-related quality of life of Portuguese children and adolescents according to their biological maturation and volume of physical activity

Catarina Garcia, Júlia Teles, Carlos Barrigas, Isabel Fragoso

The ‘new normal’: relativity of quality of life judgments in individuals with bipolar disorder—a qualitative study

Emma Morton, Erin Michalak, Rachelle Hole, Simone Buzwell, Greg Murray

Hysterectomy and perceived physical function in middle-aged Australian women: a 20-year population-based prospective cohort study

Louise F. Wilson, Nirmala Pandeya, Julie Byles, Gita D. Mishra

Patients with refractory ascites treated with alfapump® system have better health-related quality of life as compared to those treated with large volume paracentesis: the results of a multicenter randomized controlled study

Maria Stepanova, Fatema Nader, Christophe Bureau, Danielle Adebayo, Laure Elkrief, Dominique Valla, Markus Peck-Radosavljevic, Anne McCune, Victor Vargas, Macarena Simon-Talero, Juan Cordoba, Paolo Angeli, Silvia Rossi, Stewart MacDonald, Jeroen Capel, Rajiv Jalan, Zobair M. Younossi

Health-promoting behaviors benefit the mental health of cirrhotic outpatients

Hui-Chuan Huang, Kuan-Chia Lin, Chia-Shin Wu, Nae-Fang Miao, Ming-Yao Chen

Survivorship care plans have a negative impact on long-term quality of life and anxiety through more threatening illness perceptions in gynecological cancer patients: the ROGY care trial

• Open Access

Belle H. de Rooij, Nicole P. M. Ezendam, Kim A. H. Nicolaije, Paul Lodder, M. Caroline Vos, Johanna M. A. Pijnenborg, Dorry Boll, Roy F. P. M. Kruitwagen, Lonneke V. van de Poll-Franse

Life for patients with myelofibrosis: the physical, emotional and financial impact, collected using narrative medicine—Results from the Italian ‘Back to Life’ project

Francesca Palandri, Giulia Benevolo, Alessandra Iurlo, Elisabetta Abruzzese, Angelo M. Carella, Chiara Paoli, Giuseppe A. Palumbo, Massimiliano Bonifacio, Daniela Cilloni, Alessandro Andriani, Attilio Guarini, Diamante Turri, Elena Maria Elli, Antonietta Falcone, Barbara Anaclerico, Pellegrino Musto, Nicola Di Renzo, Mario Tiribelli, Renato Zambello, Caterina Spinosa, Alessandra Ricco, Letizia Raucci, Bruno Martino, Mario Annunziata, Silvia Pascale, Anna Marina Liberati, Giorgio La Nasa, Margherita Maffioli, Massimo Breccia, Novella Pugliese, Silvia Betti, Gianfranco Giglio, Antonietta Cappuccio, Luigi Reale

Effects of treatment, choice, and preference on health-related quality-of-life outcomes in patients with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Quang A. Le, Jason N. Doctor, Lori A. Zoellner, Norah C. Feeny

Patient-reported lung symptoms as an early signal of impending radiation pneumonitis in patients with non-small cell lung cancer treated with chemoradiation: an observational study

Jinbo Yue, Qiuling Shi, Ting Xu, Melenda Jeter, Ting-Yu Chen, Ritsuko Komaki, Daniel R. Gomez, Tinsu Pan, Charles S. Cleeland, Zhongxing Liao, Xin Shelley Wang

The impact of caregiver’s role preference on decisional conflicts and psychiatric distresses in decision making to help caregiver’s disclosure of terminal disease status

Shin Hye Yoo, Young Ho Yun, Kyoung-Nam Kim, Jung Lim Lee, Jeanno Park, Youn Seon Choi, Yeun Keun Lim, Samyong Kim, Hyun Sik Jeong, Jung Hun Kang, Ho-Suk Oh, Ji Chan Park, Si-Young Kim, Hong Suk Song, Keun Seok Lee, Dae Seog Heo, Young Seon Hong

Anxiety symptoms have a direct effect on oral health perception in young women

• Brief Communication

Francine S. Costa, Mariana G. Cademartori, Manuela F. Silva, Gustavo G. Nascimento, Ayah Q. Shqair, Ricardo T. Pinheiro, Flávio F. Demarco, Marília L. Goettems

Longitudinal and dynamic measurement invariance of the FACIT-Fatigue scale: an application of the measurement model of derivatives to ECOG-ACRIN study E2805

Ryne Estabrook, David Cella, Fengmin Zhao, Judith Manola, Robert S. DiPaola, Lynne I. Wagner, Naomi B. Haas

Short form development for oral health patient-reported outcome evaluation in children and adolescents

Honghu Liu, Ron Hays, Yan Wang, Marvin Marcus, Carl Maida, Jie Shen, Di Xiong, Steve Lee, Vladimir Spolsky, Ian Coulter, James Crall

Evaluation of the Fecal Incontinence Quality of Life Scale (FIQL) using item response theory reveals limitations and suggests revisions

Alexander C. Peterson, Jason M. Sutherland, Guiping Liu, R. Trafford Crump, Ahmer A. Karimuddin

Responsiveness of the anxiety/depression dimension of the 3- and 5-level versions of the EQ-5D in assessing mental health

Katelynn Crick, Fatima Al Sayah, Arto Ohinmaa, Jeffrey A. Johnson

Psychometric properties of the Chinese version of resilience scale specific to cancer: an item response theory analysis

Zeng Jie Ye, Mu Zi Liang, Hao Wei Zhang, Peng Fei Li, Xue Ren Ouyang, Yuan Liang Yu, Mei Ling Liu, Hong Zhong Qiu

Differential item functioning for items in Berger’s HIV Stigma Scale: an analysis of cohorts from the Indian, Swedish, and US contexts

• Open Access

Maria Reinius, Deepa Rao, Lisa E. Manhart, Maria Wiklander, Veronica Svedhem, John Pryor, Randall Mayer, Bambi Gaddist, Shuba Kumar, Rani Mohanraj, Lakshmanan Jeyaseelan, Lena Wettergren, Lars E. Eriksson

Psychometric properties of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), derived from a large German community sample

Andreas Hinz, Ines Conrad, Matthias L. Schroeter, Heide Glaesmer, Elmar Brähler, Markus Zenger, Rüya-Daniela Kocalevent, Philipp Y. Herzberg