Quality of Life Research

Does an informative video before inguinal hernia surgical repair influence postoperative quality of life? Results of a prospective randomized study

• Original Paper

Juergen Zieren, Charalambos Menenakos, Joachim M. Mueller

Quality-of-life outcome after hallux valgus surgery

Carlos Saro, Irene Jensen, Urban Lindgren, Li Felländer-Tsai

Effectiveness of a psycho-educational intervention for reducing burden in latin american families of patients with schizophrenia

• Original Paper

José Gutiérrez-Maldonado, Alejandra Caqueo-Urízar

The usefulness of the EQ-5D in differentiating among persons with major depressive episode and anxiety

• Brief Communication

Alison L. Supina, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Scott B. Patten, Jeanne V. A. Williams, Colleen J. Maxwell

Relation between level or change of hemoglobin and generic and disease-specific quality of life measures in hemodialysis

• Original Paper

Laura C. Plantinga, Nancy E. Fink, Bernard G. Jaar, I-Chan Huang, Albert W. Wu, Klemens B. Meyer, Neil R. Powe

The OVIS study: health related quality of life measured by the EORTC QLQ-C30 and -BR23 in German female patients with breast cancer from Schleswig-Holstein

• Original Paper

A. Waldmann, R. Pritzkuleit, H. Raspe, A. Katalinic

The relationship between gender, social support, and health-related quality of life in a community-based study in Washington County, Maryland

• Original Paper

Lisa Gallicchio, Sandra C. Hoffman, Kathy J. Helzlsouer

Low level of quality of life in patients with mental and behavioral disorders wanting complementary and alternative (kampo) therapy

• Original Paper

Kazuo Yamada

Quality of life in couples living with Huntington’s disease: the role of patients’ and partners’ illness perceptions

• Open Access
• Original Paper

A. A. Kaptein, M. Scharloo, D. I. Helder, L. Snoei, G. M. J. van Kempen, J. Weinman, J. C. van Houwelingen, R. A. C. Roos

Mode effects in the center for epidemiologic studies depression (CES-D) scale: personal digital assistant vs. paper and pencil administration

• Original Paper

Richard J. Swartz, Carl de Moor, Karon F. Cook, Rachel T. Fouladi, Karen Basen-Engquist, Cathy Eng, Cindy L. Carmack Taylor

The mathematical relationship among different forms of responsiveness coefficients

• Original Paper

G. R. Norman, Kathleen W. Wyrwich, Donald L. Patrick

Measuring social difficulties in routine patient-centred assessment: a Rasch analysis of the social difficulties inventory

• Original Paper

Adam B. Smith, Penny Wright, Peter Selby, Galina Velikova

Content comparison of health-related quality of life measures used in stroke based on the international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF): a systematic review

• Original Paper

S. Geyh, A. Cieza, B. Kollerits, G. Grimby, G. Stucki

Small-cell lung cancer patients are just ‘a little bit’ tired: response shift and self-presentation in the measurement of fatigue

• Open Access
• Original Paper

Marjan J. Westerman, Anne-Mei The, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers, Harry J. M. Groen, Gerrit van der Wal, Tony Hak

Parent-proxy and child self-reported health-related quality of life: using qualitative methods to explain the discordance

• Original Paper

Elise Davis, Caroline Nicolas, Elizabeth Waters, Kay Cook, Lisa Gibbs, Angela Gosch, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer

Translation, cultural adaptation, cross-validation of the Turkish diabetes quality-of-life (DQOL) measure

• Original Paper

Aysegul Yildirim, Fevzi Akinci, Hulya Gozu, Haluk Sargin, Ekrem Orbay, Mehmet Sargin

Field testing of a European quality of life instrument for children and adolescents with chronic conditions: the 37-item DISABKIDS Chronic Generic Module

• Original Paper

Marie-Claude Simeoni, Silke Schmidt, Holger Muehlan, David Debensason, Monika Bullinger

Evaluating the discriminatory power of EQ-5D, HUI2 and HUI3 in a US general population survey using Shannon’s indices

• Open Access
• Original Paper

Mathieu F. (Bas) Janssen, Erwin Birnie, Gouke J. Bonsel

Issues in conducting cross-cultural research: implementation of an agreed international protocol designed by the WHOQOL Group for the conduct of focus groups eliciting the quality of life of older adults

• Erratum

Graeme Hawthorne, Natasha Davidson, Kathryn Quinn, Farah McCrate, Ines Winkler, Ramona Lucas, Reinhold Kilian, Anita Molzahn

Quality of life, health status and clinical outcomes in Type 2 diabetes patients

• Erratum

Murali Sundaram, Jan Kavookjian, Julie Hicks Patrick, Lesley-Ann Miller, S. Suresh Madhavan, Virginia (Ginger) Scott

Health-related quality of life of firefighters and police officers 8.5 years after the air disaster in Amsterdam

• Open Access
• Erratum

Pauline Slottje, Jos W. R. Twisk, Nynke Smidt, Anja C. Huizink, Anke B. Witteveen, Willem van Mechelen, Tjabe Smid

Factor analysis techniques for assessing sufficient unidimensionality of cancer related fatigue

• Erratum

Jin-Shei Lai, Paul K. Crane, David Cella

Health-related quality of life among disease-free stomach cancer survivors in Korea

• Erratum

Jae-Moon Bae, Sung Kim, Young-Woo Kim, Keun Won Ryu, Jun Ho Lee, Jae-Hyung Noh, Tae-Sung Sohn, Seong-Kweon Hong, Sang Min Park, Chang Hoon You, Jung Hee Kim, Myung Kyung Lee, Young Ho Yun