Quality of Life Research

Impact of smoking on asthma symptoms, healthcare resource use, and quality of life outcomes in adults with persistent asthma

Oren Shavit, Arlene Swern, Qian Dong, Kathleen Newcomb, Vasilisa Sazonov Kocevar, Stephanie D. Taylor

Long-term health-related quality of life in survivors of meningococcal septic shock in childhood and their parents

Corinne M. P. Buysse, Hein Raat, Jan A. Hazelzet, Lindy C. A. C. Vermunt, Elisabeth M. W. J. Utens, Wim C. J. Hop, Koen F. M. Joosten

The water exercise improves health-related quality of life of frail elderly people at day service facility

Daisuke Sato, Koichi Kaneda, Hitoshi Wakabayashi, Takeo Nomura

Chronical illness and maternity: life conditions, quality of life and coping in women with multiple sclerosis

Sabine Twork, Markus Wirtz, Sabine Schipper, Jörg Klewer, Antje Bergmann, Joachim Kugler

The association between body mass index and health-related quality of life: data from CaMos, a stratified population study

Wilma M. Hopman, Claudie Berger, Lawrence Joseph, Susan I. Barr, Yongjun Gao, Jerilynn C. Prior, Suzette Poliquin, Tanveer Towheed, Tassos Anastassiades

Quality of life of adults with workplace exacerbation of asthma

Elizabeth P. Lowery, Paul K. Henneberger, Richard Rosiello, Susan R. Sama, Peggy Preusse, Don K. Milton

A randomized validation study comparing embedded versus extracted FACT Head and Neck Symptom Index scores

• Original Paper

Susan Yount, Marcy List, Hongyan Du, Kathleen Yost, Rita Bode, Bruce Brockstein, Athanassios Argiris, Everett Vokes, Ezra E. W. Cohen, Bruce Campbell, Veronica Valenzuela, Jacquelyn George, Robyn Egan, Jessica Chen, David Meddis, David Cella

Response shift due to diagnosis and primary treatment of localized prostate cancer: a then-test and a vignette study

• Open Access

Ida J. Korfage, Harry J. de Koning, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot

Spontaneous reports of most distressing concerns in patients with inoperable lung cancer: at present, in retrospect and in comparison with EORTC-QLQ-C30+LC13

Eva Broberger, Carol Tishelman, Louise von Essen, Eva Doukkali, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers

Respondent satisfaction regarding SF-36 and EQ-5D, and patients’ perspectives concerning health outcome assessment within routine health care

Evalill Nilsson, Marika Wenemark, Preben Bendtsen, Margareta Kristenson

Cluster analysis: a useful technique to identify elderly cardiac patients at risk for poor quality of life

Yoshimi Fukuoka, Teri G. Lindgren, Sally H. Rankin, Bruce A. Cooper, Diane L. Carroll

Marker states and a health state prompt provide modest improvements in the reliability and validity of the standard gamble and rating scale in prostate cancer patients

• Original Paper

Karen E. Bremner, George Tomlinson, Murray D. Krahn