Quality of Life Research

The Dartmouth COOP Charts: A simple, reliable, valid and responsive quality of life tool for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

T. Eaton, P. Young, W. Fergusson, J. E. Garrett, J. Kolbe

Using structural equation modeling to detect response shifts and true change

Frans J. Oort

An application of structural equation modeling to detect response shifts and true change in quality of life data from cancer patients undergoing invasive surgery

Frans J. Oort, Mechteld R. M. Visser, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers

Change in quality of life of people with stroke over time: True change or response shift?

Sara Ahmed, Nancy E. Mayo, Marc Corbiere, Sharon Wood-Dauphinee, James Hanley, Robin Cohen

Methods to detect response shift in quality of life data: A convergent validity study

Mechteld R. M. Visser, Frans J. Oort, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers

Methodological issues in determining the dimensionality of composite health measures using principal component analysis: Case illustration and suggestions for practice

Joël Coste, Stéphane Bouée, Emmanuel Ecosse, Alain Leplège, Jacques Pouchot

The health status of the Dutch population as assessed by the EQ-6D

N. Hoeymans, H. van Lindert, G. P. Westert

Use of the SF-8 to assess health-related quality of life for a chronically ill, low-income population participating in the Central Louisiana Medication Access Program (CMAP)

John J. Lefante Jr., Gary N. Harmon, Keith M. Ashby, David Barnard, Larry S. Webber

A review of quality of life instruments used in dementia

Teake P. Ettema, Rose-Marie Dröes, Jacomine de Lange, Gideon J. Mellenbergh, Miel W. Ribbe

An instrument to assess mental patients’ capacity to appraise and report subjective quality of life

Josephine G.W.S. Wong, Erik P.T. Cheung, Eric Y.H. Chen, Raymond C.K. Chan, C.W. Law, Molly S.M. Lo, K.F. Leung, Cindy L.K. Lam

Treatment for depression and its relationship to improvement in quality of life and psychological well-being in multiple sclerosis patients

Stacey Hart, Irina Fonareva, Natalia Merluzzi, David C. Mohr

Eating disorders and emotional and physical well-being: Associations between student self-reports of eating disorders and quality of life as measured by the SF-36

Helen A. Doll, Sophie E. Petersen, Sarah L. Stewart-Brown

Psychometric validation of the child health questionnaire (CHQ) in a sample of children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder

Anne M. Rentz, Louis S. Matza, Kristina Secnik, Andrine Swensen, Dennis A. Revicki

Assessment of health state utilities for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children using parent proxy report

Louis S. Matza, Kristina Secnik, Anne M. Rentz, Sally Mannix, F. Randy Sallee, Donald Gilbert, Dennis A. Revicki

Health-related quality of life in women and men one year after acute myocardial infarction

Eva Brink, Gunne Grankvist, Björn W. Karlson, Lillemor R.-M. Hallberg

Physical and mental component summaries score of the SF-36 in coronary patients

María Soto, Inmaculada Failde, Soledad Márquez, Encarnación Benítez, Ignacio Ramos, Antonio Barba, Fernando López

Quality of life before and after heart valve surgery is influenced by gender and type of valve

Marie-Christine Taillefer, Gilles Dupuis, Jean-François Hardy, Sylvie LeMay

The SEIQoL-DW is a valid method for measuring individual quality of life in stroke survivors attending a secondary prevention clinic

Sandra A. LeVasseur, Sally Green, Paul Talman

The impact of asthma and aspirin sensitivity on quality of life of patients with nasal polyposis

Isam Alobid, Pedro Benítez, Manuel Bernal-Sprekelsen, José María Guilemany, Cesar Picado, Joaquim Mullol

Health-related and overall quality of life of patients with chronic hip and knee complaints in general practice

Johanna M. van der Waal, Caroline B. Terwee, Daniëlle A. W. M. van der Windt, Lex M. Bouter, Joost Dekker

The relationship between productivity and health-related quality of life: An empirical exploration in persons with low back pain

Leida M. Lamers, Willem-Jan Meerding, Johan L. Severens, Werner B.F. Brouwer

Influence of age and gender on quality-of-life outcomes after cholecystectomy

J. M. Quintana, I. Arostegui, V. Oribe, I. López de Tejada, B. Barrios, I. Garay

The value of the marginalia as an adjunct to structured questionnaires: Experiences of men after prostate cancer surgery

Lorrie L. Powel, Jack A. Clark

A comparison of visual analogue and numerical rating scale formats for the Lung Cancer Symptom Scale (LCSS): Does format affect patient ratings of symptoms and quality of life?

P.J. Hollen, R.J. Gralla, M.G. Kris, S. McCoy, G.W. Donaldson, C.M. Moinpour

The responsiveness of the Overactive Bladder Questionnaire (OAB-q)

Karin S. Coyne, Louis S. Matza, Christine L. Thompson

Missing forms and dropout in the TME quality of life substudy

H. Putter, C. A. M. Marijnen, E. Klein Kranenbarg, C. J. H. van de Velde, A. M. Stiggelbout

Medical technologies, nonhuman aids, human assistance, and environmental factors in the assessment of health states

Yukiko Asada

The Short Form Health Survey (SF-36): Translation and validation study of the Iranian version

• Brief communication

Ali Montazeri, Azita Goshtasebi, Mariam Vahdaninia, Barbara Gandek

Reliability and validity of the Norwegian translation of the Seattle Angina Questionnaire following myocardial infarction

• Brief communication

Kjell I. Pettersen, Aasmund Reikvam, Knut Stavem

Cross-linguistic equivalence of WHOQOL-100: A study from North India

• Brief communication

Shekhar Saxena, Kathryn Quinn, Pratap Sharan, B. Naresh, Hao Yuantao, Mick Power

Korean version of the Caregiver Quality of Life Index – Cancer (CQOLC-K)

• Brief communication

Young Sun Rhee, Dong Ok Shin, Kwang Mi Lee, Han Jin Yu, Joung Wha Kim, Soon Ok Kim, Ran Lee, Yeon Ok Lee, Nam Shin Kim, Young Ho Yun

Quality of life and subthreshold affective symptoms

• Brief communication

Arianna Goracci, Mirko Martinucci, Umberto Scalcione, Andrea Fagiolini, Paolo Castrogiovanni