Quality of Life Research

Putting the text back into context: toward increased use of mixed methods for quality of life research

• Editorial

Lena Ring, Cynthia R. Gross, Elaine McColl

Optimal measurement model is crucial to identify distinct constructs

• Commentary

Pranav Gandhi

The experience of using the SEIQoL-DW with patients with advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): issues of process and outcome

Morag Farquhar, Gail Ewing, Irene J. Higginson, Sara Booth

Health-related quality of life after fast-track treatment results from a randomized controlled clinical equivalence trial

• Open Access

Ghislaine A. P. G. van Mastrigt, Manuela A. Joore, Fred H. M. Nieman, Johan L. Severens, Jos G. Maessen

The SF-36 component summary scales and the daytime diurnal cortisol profile

Gareth Edward Hagger-Johnson, Martha C. Whiteman, Andrew J. Wawrzyniak, Warren G. Holroyd

Effectiveness of a Tai chi Qigong program in promoting health-related quality of life and perceived social support in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease clients

Aileen W. K. Chan, Albert Lee, Lorna K. P. Suen, Wilson W. S. Tam

Accomplishment level and satisfaction with social participation of older adults: association with quality of life and best correlates

Mélanie Levasseur, Johanne Desrosiers, Gale Whiteneck

The development of a clinical outcomes survey research application: Assessment CenterSM

Richard Gershon, Nan E. Rothrock, Rachel T. Hanrahan, Liz J. Jansky, Mark Harniss, William Riley

Neck pain patients’ preference scores for their current health

• Open Access

Gabrielle van der Velde, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Ahmed M. Bayoumi, Pierre Côté, Hilary Llewellyn-Thomas, Eric L. Hurwitz, Murray Krahn

Estimating importance weights for the IWQOL-Lite using conjoint analysis

A. Brett Hauber, Ateesha F. Mohamed, F. Reed Johnson, Olatoye Oyelowo, Bradley H. Curtis, Cheryl Coon

Association between utility and treatment among patients with prostate cancer

Ravishankar Jayadevappa, J Sanford Schwartz, Sumedha Chhatre, Alan J. Wein, S. Bruce Malkowicz

Measurement of quality of life using EQ-5D in patients on prolonged mechanical ventilation: comparison of patients, family caregivers, and nurses

Mei-Chuan Hung, Yuan-Horng Yan, Po-Sheng Fan, Ming-Shian Lin, Cheng-Ren Chen, Lu-Cheng Kuo, Chong-Jen Yu, Grace Yao, Ching-Lin Hsieh, Jung-Der Wang

Health state preferences are equivalent in the United States and Trinidad and Tobago

• Open Access

Richard D. Hector Sr, John P. Anderson, Rosemarie C. P. Paul, Robert E. Weiss, Ron D. Hays, Robert M. Kaplan

The Assessment of Quality of life at the End of Life (AQEL) questionnaire: a brief but comprehensive instrument for use in patients with cancer in palliative care

Ingela Henoch, Bertil Axelsson, Bengt Bergman

Reference values for the Quality of Life Index in the general Swedish population 18–80 years of age

Mats T. Gullberg, Gunilla Hollman-Frisman, Anna-Christina Ek

Psychometric properties of the EORTC head and neck–specific quality of life questionnaire in disease-free Greek patients with cancer of pharynx and larynx

• Brief Communication

Meri Nalbadian, Vasilios Nikolaidis, Agelos Nikolaou, Christos Themelis, Athanasios Kouloulas, Victor Vital