Quality of Life Research

The king’s foot of patient-reported outcomes: current practices and new developments for the measurement of change

• Open Access

Richard J. Swartz, Carolyn Schwartz, Ethan Basch, Li Cai, Diane L. Fairclough, Lori McLeod, Tito R. Mendoza, Bruce Rapkin

Compared to what? A joint evaluation method for assessing quality of life

Heather P. Lacey, George Loewenstein, Peter A. Ubel

Concordance in the measurement of quality of life and health indicators between two methods of computer-assisted interviews: self-administered and by telephone

Joanne Klevens, William E. Trick, Romina Kee, Francisco Angulo, Diana Garcia, Laura S. Sadowski

Personal factors associated with health-related quality of life in persons with morbid obesity on treatment waiting lists in Norway

• Open Access

Anners Lerdal, Randi Andenæs, Eva Bjørnsborg, Tore Bonsaksen, Lisbet Borge, Bjørg Christiansen, Hilde Eide, Kari Hvinden, May Solveig Fagermoen

Maternal, paternal, and family health-related quality of life in the context of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease

Jennifer Hauser Kunz, Rachel Neff Greenley, Megan Howard

Clinical correlates of health-related quality of life among opioid-dependent patients

• Open Access

Kevin C. Heslin, Judith A. Stein, Keith G. Heinzerling, Deyu Pan, Christine Magladry, Ron D. Hays

The influence of psychosocial factors on quality of life among women with pain: a prospective study in Sweden

Johanna Thomtén, Joaquim J. F. Soares, Örjan Sundin

Examining the SF-36 in an older population: analysis of data and presentation of Australian adult reference scores from the Dynamic Analyses to Optimise Ageing (DYNOPTA) project

Lauren J. Bartsch, Peter Butterworth, Julie E. Byles, Paul Mitchell, Jonathan Shaw, Kaarin J. Anstey

Lifestyle and quality of life in colorectal cancer survivors

Chloe Grimmett, John Bridgewater, Andrew Steptoe, Jane Wardle

Health status and QOL instruments used in childhood cancer research: deciphering conceptual content using World Health Organization definitions

Nora Fayed, Vero Schiariti, Cristina Bostan, Alarcos Cieza, Anne Klassen

Erratum to: Health status and QOL instruments used in childhood cancer research: deciphering conceptual content using World Health Organization definitions

• Erratum

Nora Fayed, Vero Schiariti, Cristina Bostan, Alarcos Cieza, Anne Klassen

Quality of life among parents of children with cancer or brain tumors: the impact of child characteristics and parental psychosocial factors

Kristin Litzelman, Kris Catrine, Ronald Gangnon, Whitney P. Witt

Does the subjective quality of life of children with specific learning disabilities (SpLD) agree with their parents’ proxy reports?

V. Rotsika, M. Coccossis, M. Vlassopoulos, E. Papaeleftheriou, K. Sakellariou, D. C. Anagnostopoulos, A. Kokkevi, S. Skevington

Quality of life: a key variable to consider in the evaluation of adjustment in parents of children with autism spectrum disorders and in the development of relevant support and assistance programmes

Emilie Cappe, Marion Wolff, René Bobet, Jean-Louis Adrien

Children and adolescents’ health-related quality of life in relation to eczema, asthma and hay fever: results from a population-based cross-sectional study

Uwe Matterne, Jochen Schmitt, Thomas L. Diepgen, Christian Apfelbacher

Dimensionality and measurement invariance in the Satisfaction with Life Scale in Norway

• Open Access

Jocelyne Clench-Aas, Ragnhild Bang Nes, Odd Steffen Dalgard, Leif Edvard Aarø

A psychometric validation study of the Quality of Life and FAMCARE scales in Turkish cancer family caregivers

Gulbeyaz Can, Semiha Akin, Adnan Aydiner, Kursat Ozdilli, Umran Oskay, Zehra Durna

Family quality of life in dementia: a qualitative approach to family-identified care priorities

Jamie K. Ducharme, David S. Geldmacher

A preference-based measure of health: the VR-6D derived from the veterans RAND 12-Item Health Survey

Alfredo J. Selim, William Rogers, Shirley X. Qian, John Brazier, Lewis E. Kazis