Quality of Life Research

COVID-19-related health utility values and changes in COVID-19 patients and the general population: a scoping review

• Review

Zhuxin Mao, Xiao Li, Mark Jit, Philippe Beutels

Baseline functioning scales of EORTC QLQ-C30 predict overall survival in patients with gastrointestinal cancer: a meta-analysis

• Review

Ye Zang, Yue Qiu, Yimeng Sun, Yu Fan

Quality of life, cognitive and behavioural impairment in people with motor neuron disease: a systematic review

• Open Access
• Review

Ratko Radakovic, Chelsea Radakovic, Sharon Abrahams, Zachary Simmons, Amy Carroll

Development and validation of the HDSIM™ assessment system: a measure of hemorrhoid disease symptom impact

Carolyn E. Schwartz, Katrina Borowiec

When better is the enemy of good: two cautionary tales of conceptual validity versus parsimony in clinical psychometric research

• Commentary

Carolyn E. Schwartz, Katrina Borowiec, Bruce D. Rapkin

Symptom profiles in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis and their association with quality of life: a longitudinal study

Gan He, Bibo Wu, Lingling Liu, Jing Chen, Xiaohua Hu, Yaping He, Jieling Chen

The Hemodialysis Distress Thermometer for Caregivers (HD-DT-C): development and testing of the psychometric properties of a new tool for screening psychological distress among family caregivers of adults on hemodialysis

• Open Access

Helena Sousa, Oscar Ribeiro, Daniela Figueiredo

Minimal clinically important differences in health-related quality of life after treatment with direct-acting antivirals for chronic hepatitis C: ANRS CO22 HEPATHER cohort (PROQOL-HCV)

Mourad Abbas, Carrieri Patrizia, Marcellin Fabienne, Bourliere Marc, Parlati Lucia, Carrat Fabrice, Duracinsky Martin, Protopopescu Camelia

Measuring health-related quality of life in children with suspected genetic conditions: validation of the PedsQL proxy-report versions

Hadley Stevens Smith, Michael Leo, Katrina Goddard, Kristin Muessig, Frank Angelo, Sara Knight, Simon Outram, Nicole R. Kelly, Christine Rini

Exploratory factor analysis and Rasch analysis to assess the structural validity of the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit Proxy version (ASCOT-Proxy) completed by care home staff

• Open Access

Stacey Rand, Ann-Marie Towers, Stephen Allan, Lucy Webster, Sinead Palmer, Rachael Carroll, Adam Gordon, Gizdem Akdur, Claire Goodman

Time, age, gender and cultural measurement invariance of the CASP-12, a measure of psychological quality of life in adulthood

Arielle Bonneville-Roussy, Florence Khoriaty, François Laberge

Estimation of health utility values for alopecia areata

• Open Access

Daniel Aggio, Caleb Dixon, Ernest H. Law, Rowena Randall, Thomas Price, Andrew Lloyd

Construct validity of the 12-item Short Form Health Survey (SF-12) version 2 and the impact of lifestyle modifications on the health-related quality of life among Indian adults with prediabetes: results from the D-CLIP trial

Euisun Pyo, Mary Beth Weber, Jayalakshmi Sivaram, Lisa R. Staimez, Viswanathan Mohan, Ranjit Mohan Anjana, Regine Haardörfer, Harish Ranjani

Cancer population norms using a new value set for the SF-6Dv2 based on the preferences of patients with breast or colorectal cancer in Quebec

Moustapha Touré, Sarah-Maria Sfairy, Suzanne K. Bédard, Nathalie McFadden, Robert Hanel, Frédéric Lemay, Jie He, Michel Pavic, Thomas G. Poder

The phenotype of recovery XI: associations of sleep quality and perceived stress with discounting and quality of life in substance use recovery

• Open Access

Yu-Hua Yeh, Michelle H. Zheng, Allison N. Tegge, Liqa N. Athamneh, Roberta Freitas-Lemos, Candice L. Dwyer, Warren K. Bickel

Relative importance of selected predictors of health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) among U.S. adults

Haomiao Jia, Erica I. Lubetkin

It’s time for change: inequities and determinants of health-related quality of life among gender and sexually diverse young people in Australia

• Open Access

Sasha Bailey, Nicola Newton, Yael Perry, Lucinda Grummitt, Jeremy Goldbach, Emma Barrett

Pathway analysis between dental caries and oral health-related quality of life in the transition from childhood to adolescence: a 10-year cohort study

Bruna Brondani, Jessica Klöckner Knorst, Thiago Machado Ardenghi, Fausto Medeiros Mendes

The quality of life impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdowns for people living with multiple sclerosis (MS): evidence from the Australian MS Longitudinal Study

• Open Access

Glen J. Henson, Ingrid van der Mei, Bruce V. Taylor, Paul Blacklow, Suzi B. Claflin, Andrew J. Palmer, Carol Hurst, Julie A. Campbell

Patient adherence and response time in electronic patient-reported outcomes: insights from three longitudinal clinical trials

Andrzej Nowojewski, Erik Bark, Vivian H. Shih, Richard Dearden

Association between sleep quality and quality of life in Singapore

Eng Hong Tay, Yen Sin Koh, Janhavi Ajit Vaingankar, Edimansyah Abdin, Rajeswari Sambasivam, Yunjue Zhang, Saleha Shafie, Mythily Subramaniam

Understanding caregiver burden from multiple perspectives: dyadic agreement between caregiver and care recipient

Maja Kuharic, Brendan Mulhern, Lisa K. Sharp, Robin S. Turpin, A. Simon Pickard