Quality of Life Research

Patient-reported outcomes in melanoma survivors at 1, 3 and 5 years post-diagnosis: a population-based cross-sectional study

Karolina Lisy, Julia Lai-Kwon, Andrew Ward, Shahneen Sandhu, Nadine A. Kasparian, Julie Winstanley, Frances Boyle, David Gyorki, Karen Lacey, Jim Bishop, Michael Jefford

Psychotropic polypharmacy and its association with health-related quality of life among cancer survivors in the USA: a population-level analysis

Ami Vyas, Ghadah Alghaith, Meghan Hufstader-Gabriel

Body composition and changes in health-related quality of life in older age: a 10-year follow-up of the Helsinki Birth Cohort Study

• Open Access

Tuija M. Mikkola, Hannu Kautiainen, Mikaela B. von Bonsdorff, Minna K. Salonen, Niko Wasenius, Eero Kajantie, Johan G. Eriksson

Health-related quality of life and related factors among chronically homeless adults living in different permanent supportive housing models: a cross-sectional study

Antoinette L. Spector, Katherine G. Quinn, Timothy L. McAuliffe, Wayne DiFranceisco, Arturo Bendixen, Julia Dickson-Gomez

The impact of metabolic syndrome on mental health-related quality of life and depressive symptoms

Victoria M. Limon, Miryoung Lee, Brandon Gonzalez, Audrey C. Choh, Stefan A. Czerwinski

Quality of life in patients with severe mental illness: a cross-sectional survey in an integrated outpatient health care model

• Open Access

Anne Berghöfer, Luise Martin, Sabrina Hense, Stefan Weinmann, Stephanie Roll

The association between physical activity, sleep, and quality of life in patients in bio-chemical remission from Cushing’s syndrome

Susette A. Moyers, Jitske Tiemensma

Relationship between chronic diseases and sleep duration among older adults in Ghana

Jonathan Aseye Nutakor, Baozhen Dai, Alexander Kwame Gavu, Osei-Asibey Antwi

Long-term health-related quality of life after surgery in patients with chronic thromboembolic pulmonary hypertension

Oksana Kamenskaya, Asya Klinkova, Aleksander Chernyavskiy, Vladimir V. Lomivorotov, Alexander Edemskiy, Vladimir Shmyrev

Quality of life and its determinants among community re-integrated soldiers with permanent disabilities following traumatic limb injuries

Samitha Samanmalee Gowinnage, Carukshi Arambepola

Role of depressive symptoms in the health-related quality of life of Venezuelan patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Results from a tertiary care center

Martín A. Rodríguez, Nardy N. Rivero-Carrera, Joanny C. Rey-Puente, Natali Serra-Bonett, Soham Al Snih

Using vignettes to assess the contribution of goal adjustment in the adaptation to chronic musculoskeletal pain

• Original Research

Alicia E. López-Martínez, Carmen Ramírez-Maestre, Elena R. Serrano-Ibáñez, Gema T. Ruiz-Párraga, Madelon L. Peters, Rosa Esteve

Challenges and lessons learned from using anchoring vignettes to explore quality of life response behavior

• Open Access

Janine Topp, Christoph Heesen, Matthias Augustin, Valerie Andrees, Christine Blome

Can a combination of mental health services and ADL therapies improve quality of life in families of children with autism spectrum disorder?

Vanessa Clarisse Fong, Emily Gardiner, Grace Iarocci

Self and parent-proxy rated health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in youth with obesity: are parents good surrogates?

Delicia Shu Qin Ooi, Kah Yin Loke, Cindy Wei Li Ho, Yvonne Yijuan Lim, Veronica Tay, Vijaya Karuppiah, Andrew Anjian Sng, Lester Yousheng Lai, Yung Seng Lee, Konstadina Griva

Correction to: Mixed methods analysis of Health-Related Quality of Life in ambulant individuals affected with RYR1-related myopathies pre-post-N-acetylcysteine therapy

• Correction

Carlos Capella-Peris, Mary M. Cosgrove, Irene C. Chrismer, Magalie Emile-Backer, M. Sonia Razaqyar, Jeffrey S. Elliott, Anna Kuo, Paul G. Wakim, Katherine G. Meilleur

Health-related quality of life in Egyptian children with nephrotic syndrome

Riham Eid, Aya Ahmed Fathy, Nashwa Hamdy

Health-related quality of life of Portuguese children and adolescents according to diet quality and food intake

Ana Lúcia Silva, Júlia Teles, Isabel Fragoso

Quality of life and mental health in adolescent users of oral contraceptives. Results from the nationwide, representative German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS)

• Open Access

Sabina Klara Lewandowski, Gunnar Duttge, Thomas Meyer

Proxy reliability of the 12-item world health organization disability assessment schedule II among adult patients with mental disorders

Wei Zhou, Qian Liu, Yu Yu, Shuiyuan Xiao, Lizhang Chen, Kaveh Khoshnood, Shimin Zheng

Minimal important change in physical function in trauma patients: a study using the short musculoskeletal function assessment

• Open Access

M. W. de Graaf, I. H. F. Reininga, E. Heineman, M. El Moumni

Psychometric properties of the FACT-G quality of life scale for family caregivers of cancer patients

• Open Access

Lixin Song, Xianming Tan, Jason Bredle, Antonia V. Bennett, Laurel Northouse

Development and content validation of a questionnaire measuring patient empowerment in cancer follow-up

Nanna Bjerg Eskildsen, Lone Ross, Caroline Bulsara, Susanne Malchau Dietz, Thora Grothe Thomsen, Mogens Groenvold, Susanne S. Pedersen, Clara Rübner Jørgensen, Anna Thit Johnsen

Do response styles affect the predictive validity of self-rated health among Chinese older men and women?

Qiong Wu, Peikang Zhang

Development of a patient-reported experience questionnaire for patients with sarcoma: the Sarcoma Assessment Measure (SAM)

Ana Martins, Lindsey Bennister, Lorna A. Fern, Craig Gerrand, Maria Onasanya, Lesley Storey, Mary Wells, Jeremy S. Whelan, Rachael Windsor, Julie Woodford, Rachel M. Taylor

Assessing meaning & purpose in life: development and validation of an item bank and short forms for the NIH PROMIS®

John M. Salsman, Benjamin D. Schalet, Crystal L. Park, Login George, Michael F. Steger, Elizabeth A. Hahn, Mallory A. Snyder, David Cella