Quality of Life Research

How can quality of life researchers make their work more useful to health workers and their patients?

• Original Paper

Gordon Guyatt, Holger Schunemann

Measuring quality of health care from the user’s perspective in 41 countries: psychometric properties of WHO’s questions on health systems responsiveness

• Original Paper

N. B. Valentine, G. J. Bonsel, C. J. L. Murray

The association of consumer expectations, experiences and satisfaction with newly prescribed medications

• Original Paper

Ritesh N. Kumar, Duane M. Kirking, Steven L. Hass, Amiram D. Vinokur, Stephanie D. Taylor, Mark J. Atkinson, Patrick L. McKercher

The effect of walking and vitamin B supplementation on quality of life in community-dwelling adults with mild cognitive impairment: a randomized, controlled trial

• Open Access
• Original Paper

Jannique G. Z. van Uffelen, Marijke J. M. Chin A Paw, Marijke Hopman-Rock, Willem van Mechelen

Factors associated with participation restriction in community-dwelling adults aged 50 years and over

Ross Wilkie, George Peat, Elaine Thomas, Peter Croft

The health-related quality of life of children and adolescents in home-based foster care

Josephine A. Carbone, Michael G. Sawyer, Amelia K. Searle, Philip J. Robinson

Health status, work limitations, and return-to-work trajectories in injured workers with musculoskeletal disorders

• Open Access
• Original Paper

Ute Bültmann, Renée-Louise Franche, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Pierre Côté, Hyunmi Lee, Colette Severin, Marjan Vidmar, Nancy Carnide

Change in health status and mortality as indicators of outcomes: comparison between the Medicare Advantage Program and the Veterans Health Administration

• Original Paper

Alfredo J. Selim, Lewis E. Kazis, William Rogers, Shirley X. Qian, James A. Rothendler, Avron Spiro III, Xinhua S. Ren, Donald Miller, Bernardo J. Selim, Benjamin G. Fincke

Validity of patient-reported health-related quality of life global ratings of change using structural equation modeling

• Original Paper

Stacie M. Metz, Kathleen W. Wyrwich, Ajit N. Babu, Kurt Kroenke, William M. Tierney, Fredric D. Wolinsky

Clinically meaningful improvement on the Self-Esteem And Relationship questionnaire in men with erectile dysfunction

Joseph C. Cappelleri, Stanley E. Althof, Michael P. O’Leary, Sidney Glina, Rosie King, Vera J. Stecher, Martin Carlsson, Richard L. Siegel

The effects of response bias on self-reported quality of life among childhood cancer survivors

• Original Research

Tara E. O’Leary, Lisa Diller, Christopher J. Recklitis

Two questionnaires for Parkinson’s disease: are the PDQ-39 and PDQL equivalent?

Pablo Martinez-Martin, Marcos Serrano-Dueñas, Maria João Forjaz, Maria Soledad Serrano

Validation of the Migraine-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire version 2.1 (MSQ v. 2.1) for patients undergoing prophylactic migraine treatment

• Original Paper

Jason C. Cole, Peggy Lin, Marcia F. T. Rupnow

Reliability and validity of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ (PedsQL™) Short Form 15 Generic Core Scales in Japan

Xiaoli Chen, Hideki Origasa, Fukiko Ichida, Keiko Kamibeppu, James W. Varni

Utilities and disutilities for type 2 diabetes treatment-related attributes

• Original Paper

Louis S. Matza, Kristina S. Boye, Nicole Yurgin, Jessica Brewster-Jordan, Sally Mannix, Jodi M. Shorr, Beth L. Barber

Emergency physicians’ pain judgments: cluster analyses on scenarios of acute abdominal pain

• Brief Communication

Laetitia Marquié, Paul C. Sorum, Etienne Mullet