Quality of Life Research

Operationalization of the SAMHSA model of recovery: a quality of life perspective

Marcus Y. L. Chiu, Winnie W. N. Ho, William T. L. Lo, Michael G. C. Yiu

Change in health-related quality of life as a predictor of mortality in the older adults

Andrea Otero-Rodríguez, Luz María León-Muñoz, Teresa Balboa-Castillo, José R. Banegas, Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo, Pilar Guallar-Castillón

Measurement limit of quality-of-life questionnaires in psychiatric settings

Takeshi Nishiyama, Norio Ozaki

Is traditional rural lifestyle a barrier for quality of life assessment? A case study using the Short Form 36 in a rural Chinese population

• Brief Communication

Chaojie Liu, Ningxiu Li, Xiaohui Ren, Danping Liu

Impact of road traffic noise annoyance on health-related quality of life: results from a population-based study

Julia Dratva, Elisabeth Zemp, Denise Felber Dietrich, Pierre-Olivier Bridevaux, Thierry Rochat, Christian Schindler, Margaret W. Gerbase

Women’s perceptions of their husband’s drinking behavior as a risk factor of their health-related quality of life in the postpartum period

Pei-Jen Chang, Li-Yao Wu, Yi Chun Chen, Chao-Hua Chuang, Wu-Shiun Hsieh, Shio-Jean Lin, Pau-Chung Chen

Caregiver education in Parkinson’s disease: formative evaluation of a standardized program in seven European countries

• Open Access

L. E. I. A’Campo, N. G. A. Spliethoff-Kamminga, M. Macht, R. A. C. Roos

Mapping analyses to estimate health utilities based on responses to the OM8-30 otitis media questionnaire

Helen Dakin, Stavros Petrou, Mark Haggard, Sarah Benge, Ian Williamson

Health status utilities and the impact of pressure ulcers in long-term care residents in Ontario

• Open Access

Hla-Hla Thein, Tara Gomes, Murray D. Krahn, Walter P. Wodchis

The challenge of validating SF-12 for its use with community-dwelling elderly in Israel

• Brief Communication

Netta Bentur, Yaron King

Utility of the twelve-item World Health Organization Disability Assessment Schedule II (WHO-DAS II) for discriminating depression “caseness” and severity in Spanish primary care patients

• Brief Communication

Juan V. Luciano, José L. Ayuso-Mateos, Ana Fernandez, Jaume Aguado, Antoni Serrano-Blanco, Miquel Roca, Josep M. Haro

The Functional Living Index-Cancer: estimating its reliability based on clinical trial data

Annouschka Laenen, Ariel Alonso

Health and role functioning: the use of focus groups in the development of an item bank

Milena D. Anatchkova, Jakob B. Bjorner

Efficiency of static and computer adaptive short forms compared to full-length measures of depressive symptoms

Seung W. Choi, Steven P. Reise, Paul A. Pilkonis, Ron D. Hays, David Cella

The analysis of longitudinal quality of life measures with informative drop-out: a pattern mixture approach

• Open Access

Wendy J. Post, Ciska Buijs, Ronald P. Stolk, Elisabeth G. E. de Vries, Saskia le Cessie