Quality of Life Research

Negative and positive affect are independently associated with patient-reported health status following percutaneous coronary intervention

• Open Access

Henneke Versteeg, Susanne S. Pedersen, Ruud A. M. Erdman, Josephine W. I. van Nierop, Peter de Jaegere, Ron T. van Domburg

Impact of demographic factors, medication and symptoms on disease-specific quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease

Johanna Haapamäki, Ulla Turunen, Risto P. Roine, Martti A. Färkkilä, Perttu E. T. Arkkila

The complexity of the relationship between chronic pain and quality of life: a study of the general Norwegian population

• Open Access

Astrid K. Wahl, Tone Rustøen, Berit Rokne, Anners Lerdal, Øistein Knudsen, Christine Miaskowski, Torbjørn Moum

Sampling in population-based cancer caregivers research

Youngmee Kim, Deborah A. Kashy, Chiew Kwei Kaw, Tenbroeck Smith, Rachel L. Spillers

Concordance of cancer patients’ function, symptoms, and supportive care needs

Claire F. Snyder, Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, Amanda L. Blackford, Julie R. Brahmer, Michael A. Carducci, Roberto Pili, Vered Stearns, Antonio C. Wolff, Sydney M. Dy, Albert W. Wu

Agreement of patient and physician ratings on mobility and self-care in neurological diseases

Erik Farin

Impact of mental disorders and chronic physical conditions in health-related quality of life among primary care patients: results from an epidemiological study

Alejandra Pinto-Meza, Anna Fernández, Miquel Angel Fullana, Josep Maria Haro, Diego Palao, Juan Vicente Luciano, Antoni Serrano-Blanco

Predictive value of serial measurements of quality of life on all-cause mortality in prostate cancer patients: data from CaPSURE™ (cancer of the prostate strategic urologic research endeavor) database

• Open Access

Natalia Sadetsky, Alan Hubbard, Peter R. Carroll, William Satariano

Somatization is associated with physical health-related quality of life independent of anxiety and depression in cancer, glaucoma and rheumatological disorders

Thomas Hyphantis, Barbara Tomenson, Vassiliki Paika, Augoustina Almyroudi, Chrisavgi Pappa, Niki Tsifetaki, Paraskevi V. Voulgari, Alexandros A. Drosos, Nicholas Pavlidis, Francis Creed

How sharp is the short QuickDASH? A refined content and validity analysis of the short form of the disabilities of the shoulder, arm and hand questionnaire in the strata of symptoms and function and specific joint conditions

Felix Angst, Jörg Goldhahn, Susann Drerup, Matthias Flury, Hans-Kaspar Schwyzer, Beat R. Simmen

Responsiveness of the Harris Hip Score and the SF-36: five years after total hip arthroplasty

Hon-Yi Shi, Lih-Wen Mau, Je-Ken Chang, Jun-Wen Wang, Herng-Chia Chiu

Prostate cancer-specific anxiety in Dutch patients on active surveillance: validation of the memorial anxiety scale for prostate cancer

• Open Access
• Brief Communication

Roderick C. N. van den Bergh, Ida J. Korfage, Gerard J. J. M. Borsboom, Ewout W. Steyerberg, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot

Differential item functioning was negligible in an adaptive test of functional status for patients with knee impairments who spoke English or Hebrew

Dennis L. Hart, Daniel Deutscher, Paul K. Crane, Ying-Chih Wang

Using cognitive interviews to evaluate items for measuring sexual functioning across cancer populations: improvements and remaining challenges

Alice K. Fortune-Greeley, Kathryn E. Flynn, Diana D. Jeffery, Megan S. Williams, Francis J. Keefe, Bryce B. Reeve, Gordon B. Willis, Kevin P. Weinfurt

Health utility scores of colorectal cancer based on societal preference in Japan

Takeru Shiroiwa, Takashi Fukuda, Kiichiro Tsutani

Developing a descriptive system for a new preference-based measure of health-related quality of life for children

Katherine Stevens

Development of a methodological PubMed search filter for finding studies on measurement properties of measurement instruments

• Open Access

Caroline B. Terwee, Elise P. Jansma, Ingrid I. Riphagen, Henrica C. W. de Vet

The practical impact of differential item functioning analyses in a health-related quality of life instrument

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