Quality of Life Research

Living with chronic pain

• Commentary

Penney Cowan

Population health status in China: EQ-5D results, by age, sex and socio-economic status, from the National Health Services Survey 2008

• Open Access

Sun Sun, Jiaying Chen, Magnus Johannesson, Paul Kind, Ling Xu, Yaoguang Zhang, Kristina Burström

Using Rasch analysis to form plausible health states amenable to valuation: the development of CORE-6D from a measure of common mental health problems (CORE-OM)

Ifigeneia Mavranezouli, John E. Brazier, Tracey A. Young, Michael Barkham

Response shift effect on gastrointestinal quality of life index after laparoscopic cholecystectomy

Hon-Yi Shi, King-Teh Lee, Hao-Hsien Lee, Yih-Huei Uen, Chong-Chi Chiu

Patient-reported outcomes in clinical trials of inhaled asthma medications: systematic review and research needs

Geoff K. Frampton, Jonathan Shepherd

Associations between living arrangements and health-related quality of life of urban elderly people: a study from China

Xiaojie Sun, Henry Lucas, Qingyue Meng, Yaoguang Zhang

Assessing longitudinal quality of life in prostate cancer patients and their spouses: a multilevel modeling approach

Lixin Song, Laurel L. Northouse, Thomas M. Braun, Lingling Zhang, Bernadine Cimprich, David L. Ronis, Darlene W. Mood

Measuring the health status burden in hemodialysis patients using the SF-36® health survey

• Brief Communication

Aaron S. Yarlas, Michelle K. White, Min Yang, Renee N. Saris-Baglama, Peter Galthen Bech, Torsten Christensen

Factors associated with health-related quality of life among Belgrade University students

Tatjana Pekmezovic, Aleksandra Popovic, Darija Kisic Tepavcevic, Tatjana Gazibara, Mila Paunic

Comparison of self-reported health-related quality of life between Taiwan hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis patients: a multi-center collaborative study

Yu-Sen Peng, Chih-Kang Chiang, Kung-Yu Hung, Chung-Hsin Chang, Chien-Yu Lin, Chwei-Shiun Yang, Tzen-Wen Chen, Ching-Chih Hsia, Da-Lung Chen, Wen-Ding Hsu, Chao-Fu Chang, Kwan-Dun Wu, Ru-Ping Lin, Tun-Jun Tsai, Wang-Yu Chen

Factors affecting perceived quality of life of older persons with self-reported visual disability

Steven La Grow, Fiona Alpass, Christine Stephens, Andrew Towers

Comparison of the quality of life between patients with non-small-cell lung cancer and healthy controls

Lukas Jyuhn-Hsiarn Lee, Chih-Wen Chung, Yu-Yin Chang, Yung-Chie Lee, Chih-Hsin Yang, Saou-Hsing Liou, Pang-Hsiang Liu, Jung-Der Wang

Measuring health-related quality of life in Kashin–Beck disease using EQ-5D

• Brief Communication

Umer Farooq, Xiong Guo, Ling-Hsiang Chuang, Hua Fang, Guihua Zhuang, Chuantao Xia

Translation of the Social Difficulties Inventory (SDI-21) into three south Asian languages and preliminary evaluation of SDI-21(Urdu)

• Brief Communication

Naheed Hanif, Nimarta Dharni, Adam Smith, Sangeeta Chattoo, Galina Velikova, Chris Bradley, Dan Stark, Penny Wright

Presenteeism in college students: reliability and validity of the Presenteeism Scale for Students

Masateru Matsushita, Hiroyoshi Adachi, Mikako Arakida, Ikuro Namura, Yuko Takahashi, Masakazu Miyata, Takayuki Kumano-go, Schuhei Yamamura, Yoshihisa Shigedo, Nakamori Suganuma, Akira Mikami, Toshiki Moriyama, Yoshiro Sugita

Development and initial validation of Perceived Rehabilitation Needs Questionnaire for people with schizophrenia

Alvin H. H. Wong, Hector W. H. Tsang, Sally M. Y. Li, Kelvin M. T. Fung, Raymond C. K. Chung, Ada Y. Leung, Michael G. C. Yiu

Psychometric evaluation of the Fatigue Severity Scale in patients with major depression

Panagiotis Ferentinos, Vassilis Kontaxakis, Beata Havaki-Kontaxaki, Dimitris Dikeos, Lefteris Lykouras