Quality of Life Research

Perceived benefits and limitations of using patient-reported outcome measures in clinical practice with individual patients: a systematic review of qualitative studies

• Review

Rachel Campbell, Angela Ju, Madeleine T. King, Claudia Rutherford

Feasibility of the EQ-5D in the elderly population: a systematic review of the literature

• Open Access
• Review

Ole Marten, Laura Brand, Wolfgang Greiner

How are we measuring health-related quality of life in patients with a Barrett Esophagus? A systematic review on patient-reported outcome measurements

• Open Access
• Review

Mirjam C. M. van der Ende-van Loon, A. Stoker, P. T. Nieuwkerk, W. L. Curvers, E. J. Schoon

Impact and predictors of quality of life in adults diagnosed with a genetic muscle disorder: a nationwide population-based study

Alice Theadom, Miriam Rodrigues, Annemarei Ranta, Gemma Poke, Donald Love, Kelly Jones, Braden Te Ao, Graeme Hammond-Tooke, Priya Parmar, Gina O’Grady, Richard Roxburgh, Alice Theadom, Kelly Jones, Braden Te Ao, Kerry Walker, Miriam Rodrigues, Richard Roxburgh, Gina O’Grady, Priya Parmar, Chris Higgins, Valery Feigin, Annemarei Ranta, Rita Krishnamurthi, Alain Vandal, Paul Brown, Donald Love, Jenny Stewart, Gemma Poke, Graeme Hammond-Tooke

Social support and health-related quality of life among the oldest old — longitudinal evidence from the multicenter prospective AgeCoDe-AgeQualiDe study

• Open Access

André Hajek, Christian Brettschneider, Tina Mallon, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, Anke Oey, Birgitt Wiese, Siegfried Weyerer, Jochen Werle, Michael Pentzek, Angela Fuchs, Ines Conrad, Melanie Luppa, Dagmar Weeg, Edelgard Mösch, Luca Kleineidam, Michael Wagner, Martin Scherer, Wolfgang Maier, Steffi G. Riedel-Heller, Hans-Helmut König

Association amongst social support inside or outside the family and depression symptoms: longitudinal study of urban–rural differences in China

Chaoyang Yan, Hui Liao, Ying Ma, Jing Wang

Predictors of EQ-5D-3L outcomes amongst injured Māori: 1-year post-injury findings from a New Zealand cohort study

• Open Access

Brett Maclennan, Emma Wyeth, Ari Samaranayaka, Sarah Derrett

A philosophical perspective on the development and application of patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs)

• Commentary

Keith Ashton Meadows

Patient-level barriers and facilitators to completion of patient-reported outcomes measures

Chao Long, Laura K. Beres, Albert W. Wu, Aviram M. Giladi

Clinicians’ perspectives on the integration of electronic patient-reported outcomes into dermatology clinics: a qualitative study

Vanina L. Taliercio, Ashley M. Snyder, Allison M. Biggs, Jacob Kean, Rachel Hess, Kristina Callis Duffin, Amy M. Cizik, Aaron M. Secrest

Knowledge translation resources to support the use of quality of life assessment tools for the care of older adults living at home and their family caregivers

• Open Access

Kara Schick-Makaroff, Richard Sawatzky, Lena Cuthbertson, Joakim Öhlén, Autumn Beemer, Dominique Duquette, Mehri Karimi-Dehkordi, Kelli I. Stajduhar, Nitya Suryaprakash, Landa Terblanche, Angela C. Wolff, S. Robin Cohen

Evaluation of a multidisciplinary care model to improve quality of life in rheumatoid arthritis: a randomised controlled trial

Manjari Lahiri, Peter P. M. Cheung, Preeti Dhanasekaran, Su-Ren Wong, Ai Yap, Daphne S. H. Tan, Siew-Hwa Chong, Chiew-Hwa Tan, Amelia Santosa, Phillip Phan

Happiness and depression in psoriasis: a cross-sectional study in Germany

• Open Access

Barbara Schuster, Corinna Peifer, Stefanie Ziehfreund, Linda Tizek, Tilo Biedermann, Alexander Zink, Maximilian C. Schielein

Mental health, quality of life and optimism during the covid-19 pandemic: a comparison between Brazil and Portugal

Luciano Magalhães Vitorino, Luís Manuel Mota Sousa, Clarissa Trzesniak, Olga Maria de Sousa Valentim, Gerson Hiroshi Yoshinari Júnior, Helena Maria Guerreiro José, Giancarlo Lucchetti

Greater mastery is associated with lower depression risk in a large international cohort of people with multiple sclerosis over 2.5 years

• Open Access

Sandra Neate, Afaf Humam, Nupur Nag, George A. Jelinek, Steve Simpson-Yap

Patient-reported outcomes associated with transition to secondary progressive multiple sclerosis

Brian C. Healy, Jonathan Zurawski, Tanuja Chitnis, Howard L. Weiner, Bonnie I. Glanz

Quality of life in first episode psychosis: a cluster analytic approach

Z. Liao, K. Allott, J. F. I. Anderson, E. Killackey, S. M. Cotton

Single item self-rated general health: SF-36 based observations from 16,910 spine surgery procedures

Anders Joelson, Fredrik Strömqvist, Freyr Gauti Sigmundsson, Jan Karlsson

Minimal important differences of EORTC QLQ-C30 for metastatic breast cancer patients: Results from a randomized clinical trial

• Open Access

Takuya Kawahara, Naruto Taira, Takeru Shiroiwa, Yasuhiro Hagiwara, Takashi Fukuda, Yukari Uemura, Hirofumi Mukai

Psychometric validation and interpretation of the Nocturia Impact Diary in a clinical trial setting

• Open Access

Stacie Hudgens, Amy Howerter, Ela Polek, Fredrik L. Andersson

Creation and validation of the pictorial ecological momentary well-being instrument (EMOWI) for adolescents

Marie Buzzi, Laetitia Minary, Yan Kestens, Nelly Agrinier, Laetitia Ricci, Jonathan Epstein

Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30)

• Open Access

Caterina Calderon, Pere J. Ferrando, Urbano Lorenzo-Seva, Estrella Ferreira, Eun Mi Lee, Marta Oporto-Alonso, Berta M. Obispo-Portero, Luka Mihic-Góngora, Adan Rodríguez-González, Paula Jiménez-Fonseca

Possible substantive improvements in the structure of the Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors (QLACS) scale? A study based on its Spanish version

Yolanda Andreu Vaillo, Andrea Conchado Peiró, Paula Martinez Lopez, María Teresa Martinez Martinez, Pilar Moreno, Leoncio Arribas Alpuente

Coronary revascularisation outcome questionnaire: validation study of the Serbian version

Nemanja Aleksic, Svetozar Putnik, Sara Schroter, Vedrana Pavlovic, Uros Bumbasirevic, Mina Zlatkovic, Ilija Bilbija, Milos Matkovic, Aleksa Jovanovic, Tatjana Pekmezovic, Gorica Maric

A comparison between measurement properties of four shoulder-related outcome measures in Nepalese patients with shoulder pain

• Open Access

Sudarshan KC, Saurab Sharma, Karen Ginn, Darren Reed

Correction to: Resilience to health challenges is related to different ways of thinking: mediators of physical and emotional quality of life in a heterogeneous rare-disease cohort

• Correction

Carolyn E. Schwartz, Wesley Michael, Bruce D. Rapkin