Quality of Life Research

Loneliness and health-related quality of life for the empty nest elderly in the rural area of a mountainous county in China

Li-Juan Liu, Qiang Guo

The association between infant feeding pattern and mother’s quality of life in Taiwan

• Research Paper

Yi-Chun Chen, Wei-Chu Chie, Shu-Chen Kuo, Yu-Hsuan Lin, Shio-Jean Lin, Pau-Chung Chen

The relationship between quality of life and posttraumatic stress disorder or major depression for firefighters in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

• Original Paper

Yong-Shing Chen, Ming-Chao Chen, Frank Huang-Chih Chou, Feng-Ching Sun, Pei-Chun Chen, Kuan-Yi Tsai, Shin-Shin Chao

Quality of life after liver transplantation for hepatitis C infection

• Original Paper

Tracey Dudley, Dawn Chaplin, Collette Clifford, David John Mutimer

Different perceptions of the burden of upper GI endoscopy: an empirical study in three patient groups

• Open Access

Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, Michelle E. Kruijshaar, Dirk J. Bac, Pieter J. Wismans, Frank ter Borg, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Peter D. Siersema

Quality of life among Turkish immigrants in Sweden

• Original Paper

Nuran Bayram, Daniel Thorburn, Haydar Demirhan, Nazan Bilgel

Testing the structural and cross-cultural validity of the KIDSCREEN-27 quality of life questionnaire

• Original Paper

Stephane Robitail, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, Marie-Claude Simeoni, Luis Rajmil, Jeanet Bruil, Mick Power, Wolfgang Duer, Bernhard Cloetta, Ladislav Czemy, Joanna Mazur, Agnes Czimbalmos, Yannis Tountas, Curt Hagquist, Jean Kilroe, Pascal Auquier

The KIDSCREEN-27 quality of life measure for children and adolescents: psychometric results from a cross-cultural survey in 13 European countries

• Original Paper

Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, Pascal Auquier, Michael Erhart, Angela Gosch, Luis Rajmil, Jeanet Bruil, Mick Power, Wolfgang Duer, Bernhard Cloetta, Ladislav Czemy, Joanna Mazur, Agnes Czimbalmos, Yannis Tountas, Curt Hagquist, Jean Kilroe

Reliability and validity of functional health status and health-related quality of life questionnaires in children with recurrent acute otitis media

• Open Access

Carole N. M. Brouwer, Anne G. M. Schilder, Henk F. van Stel, Maroeska M. Rovers, Reinier H. Veenhoven, Diederick E. Grobbee, Elisabeth A. M. Sanders, A. Rianne Maillé

Development and validation of a WHOQOL-BREF Taiwanese audio player-assisted interview version for the elderly who use a spoken dialect

• Brief Communication

Chi-Wen Chien, Jung-Der Wang, Grace Yao, Ching-Fan Sheu, Ching-Lin Hsieh

Validation and cross-cultural adaptation of the disease-specific questionnaire MSQOL-54 in Serbian multiple sclerosis patients sample

• Brief Communication

Tatjana Pekmezovic, Darija Kisic Tepavcevic, Jelena Kostic, Jelena Drulovic

The Burden of Stroke Scale (BOSS) provided valid, reliable, and responsive score estimates of functioning and well-being during the first year of recovery from stroke

• Original Paper

Patrick J. Doyle, Malcolm R. McNeil, James E. Bost, Katherine B. Ross, Julie L. Wambaugh, William D. Hula, Joseph M. Mikolic

Controlling for occasion-specific effects when assessing the test–retest reliability of self-report health questionnaires

• Original Paper

Joseph A. Olsen, Daniel A. Bloch, George J. Bloch

Issues in the design of Internet-based systems for collecting patient-reported outcomes

James B. Jones, Claire F. Snyder, Albert W. Wu

Feasibility, validity and reliability of the Welsh version of the EQ-5D health status questionnaire

• Brief Communication

Dyfrig A. Hughes

Which personal quality of life domains affect the happiness of older South Africans?

Margaret S. Westaway, Steve A. S. Olorunju, Lee-Chayne J. Rai

Choosing between measures: comparison of EQ-5D, HUI2 and HUI3 in persons with hearing complaints

• Open Access

Janneke P. C. Grutters, Manuela A. Joore, Frans van der Horst, Hans Verschuure, Wouter A. Dreschler, Lucien J. C. Anteunis

Responsiveness to change due to supportive-expressive group therapy, improvement in mood and disease progression in women with metastatic breast cancer

• Erratum

Julie Lemieux, Dorcas E. Beaton, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Louise J. Bordeleau, Jon Hunter, Pamela J. Goodwin