Quality of Life Research

Qualify of life and palliation predict survival in patients with chronic alveolar hypoventilation and nocturnal ventilatory support

Jan Olofson, Catharina Dellborg, Marianne Sullivan, Bengt Midgren, Oscar Caro, Bengt Bergman

Effects of two weight-loss diets on health-related quality of life

William S. Yancy Jr., Daniel Almirall, Matthew L. Maciejewski, Ronette L. Kolotkin, Jennifer R. McDuffie, Eric C. Westman

Discrimination experience and quality of life among rural-to-urban migrants in China: the mediation effect of expectation–reality discrepancy

Jintao Zhang, Xiaoming Li, Xiaoyi Fang, Qing Xiong

Measures of asthma control and quality of life: longitudinal data provide practical insights into their relative usefulness in different research contexts

Madeleine T. King, Patricia M. Kenny, Guy B. Marks

Evaluation of the methodological quality of systematic reviews of health status measurement instruments

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Lidwine B. Mokkink, Caroline B. Terwee, Paul W. Stratford, Jordi Alonso, Donald L. Patrick, Ingrid Riphagen, Dirk L. Knol, Lex M. Bouter, Henrica C. W. de Vet

Response shift: a brief overview and proposed research priorities

Ruth Barclay-Goddard, Joshua D. Epstein, Nancy E. Mayo

The 6-item CTS symptoms scale: a brief outcomes measure for carpal tunnel syndrome

Isam Atroshi, Per-Erik Lyrén, Christina Gummesson

Measuring global physical health in children with cerebral palsy: illustration of a multidimensional bi-factor model and computerized adaptive testing

Stephen M. Haley, Pengsheng Ni, Helene M. Dumas, Maria A. Fragala-Pinkham, Ronald K. Hambleton, Kathleen Montpetit, Nathalie Bilodeau, George E. Gorton, Kyle Watson, Carole A. Tucker

Measurement invariance of the Mini Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire across African–American and Latino adult asthma patients

Pablo A. Mora, Richard J. Contrada, Alayna Berkowitz, Tamara Musumeci-Szabo, Juan Wisnivesky, Ethan A. Halm

Differential item functioning (DIF) in the EORTC QLQ-C30: a comparison of baseline, on-treatment and off-treatment data

Neil W. Scott, Peter M. Fayers, Neil K. Aaronson, Andrew Bottomley, Alexander de Graeff, Mogens Groenvold, Chad Gundy, Michael Koller, Morten A. Petersen, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers

Disability meanings according to patients and clinicians: imagined recovery choice pathways

Margaret G. Stineman, Pamela M. Rist, Jibby E. Kurichi, Greg Maislin