Quality of Life Research

Measures of relative importance for health-related quality of life

Tolulope T. Sajobi, Lisa M. Lix, Ian Clara, John Walker, Lesley A. Graff, Patricia Rawsthorne, Norine Miller, Linda Rogala, Rachel Carr, Charles N. Bernstein

Rasch analysis of the Patient and Observer Scar Assessment Scale (POSAS) in burn scars

• Open Access

Martijn B. A. van der Wal, Wim E. Tuinebreijer, Monica C. T. Bloemen, Pauline D. H. M. Verhaegen, Esther Middelkoop, Paul P. M. van Zuijlen

Constantly Proving The Opposite? A test of CPTO using a broad time horizon and correcting for discounting

• Open Access

Arthur E. Attema, Werner B. F. Brouwer

Quality and acceptability of patient-reported outcome measures used in chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis (CFS/ME): a systematic review

• Review

Kirstie L. Haywood, Sophie Staniszewska, Sarah Chapman

Quality of life of adolescents with autism spectrum disorders: concordance among adolescents’ self-reports, parents’ reports, and parents’ proxy reports

• Brief Communication

R. Christopher Sheldrick, Emily N. Neger, Deborah Shipman, Ellen C. Perrin

Overweight and its impact on the health-related quality of life in children and adolescents: results from the European KIDSCREEN survey

Veronika Ottova, Michael Erhart, Luis Rajmil, Lucia Dettenborn-Betz, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer

Impacts of recurrent aphthous stomatitis on quality of life of 12- and 15-year-old Thai children

• Brief Communication

Sudaduang Krisdapong, Aubrey Sheiham, Georgios Tsakos

Evaluation of the quality of life of children with celiac disease and their parents: a case–control study

Cláudia Maria de Lorenzo, João Carlos Xikota, Mônica Chang Wayhs, Sílvia Modesto Nassar, Maria Marlene de Souza Pires

Determinants of social participation of visually impaired older adults

• Open Access

Manna A. Alma, Sijrike F. Van der Mei, Johan W. Groothoff, Theo P. B. M. Suurmeijer

Post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and health-related quality of life in OEF/OIF veterans

• Brief Communication

James O. E. Pittman, Abigail A. Goldsmith, Jennifer A. Lemmer, Michael T. Kilmer, Dewleen G. Baker

Benefits on quality of life concomitant to metabolic improvement in intervention program for prevention of diabetes mellitus

Adriana Cezaretto, Antonela Siqueira-Catania, Camila Risso de Barros, Emanuel Péricles Salvador, Sandra Roberta G. Ferreira

Mothers of infants with congenital heart defects: well-being from pregnancy through the child’s first six months

Maria T. Grønning Dale, Øivind Solberg, Henrik Holmstrøm, Markus A. Landolt, Leif T. Eskedal, Margarete E. Vollrath

The influence of neighborhood factors on the quality of life of older adults attending New York City senior centers: results from the Health Indicators Project

Dana Friedman, Nina S. Parikh, Nancy Giunta, Marianne C. Fahs, William T. Gallo

Neighborhood foreclosures and self-rated health among breast cancer survivors

Mario Schootman, Anjali D. Deshpande, Sandi L. Pruitt, Donna B. Jeffe

Circulating levels of a biomarker of collagen metabolism are associated with health-related quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure

Sofia V. Chatzikyriakou, Dimitrios N. Tziakas, Georgios K. Chalikias, Dimitrios Stakos, Dimitrios Papazoglou, Asimina Lantzouraki, Adina Thomaidi, Harisios Boudoulas, Stavros Konstantinides

Validation of the EQ-5D in a general population sample in urban China

Hong-Mei Wang, Donald L. Patrick, Todd C. Edwards, Anne M. Skalicky, Hai-Yan Zeng, Wen-Wen Gu

The WHO quality of life (WHOQOL) questionnaire: Spanish development and validation studies

• Brief Communication

Ramona Lucas-Carrasco

Development of a self-report measure of capability wellbeing for adults: the ICECAP-A

• Open Access

Hareth Al-Janabi, Terry N Flynn, Joanna Coast

Psychometric properties and gender invariance of the Chinese version of the self-report pediatric quality of life inventory version 4.0: short form is acceptable

• Brief Communication

Chung-Ying Lin, Wei-Ming Luh, Ai-Lun Yang, Chia-Ting Su, Jung-Der Wang, Hui-Ing Ma

Erratum to: Data mining for response shift patterns in multiple sclerosis patients using recursive partitioning tree analysis

• Erratum

Yuelin Li, Carolyn E. Schwartz

Erratum to: Using latent trajectory analysis of residuals to detect response shift in general health among patients with multiple sclerosis

• Erratum

Sara Ahmed, Nancy Mayo, Susan Scott, Ayse Kuspinar, Carolyn Schwartz