Quality of Life Research

Longitudinal changes in social functioning in mildly disabled patients with relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis receiving subcutaneous interferon β-1a: results from the COGIMUS (COGnitive Impairment in MUltiple Sclerosis) study (II)

Francesco Patti, Maria Pia Amato, Maria Trojano, Stefano Bastianello, Maria Rosalia Tola, Orietta Picconi, Sabina Cilia, Salvatore Cottone, Luigi M. E. Grimaldi

Measuring fatigue in persons with multiple sclerosis: creating a crosswalk between the Modified Fatigue Impact Scale and the PROMIS Fatigue Short Form

Vanessa K. Noonan, Karon F. Cook, Alyssa M. Bamer, Seung W. Choi, Jiseon Kim, Dagmar Amtmann

The prevalence of hearing impairment and its burden on the quality of life among adults with Medicare Supplement Insurance

Kevin Hawkins, Frank G. Bottone Jr., Ronald J. Ozminkowski, Shirley Musich, Ming Bai, Richard J. Migliori, Charlotte S. Yeh

The association between cumulative adversity and mental health: considering dose and primary focus of adversity

Giora Keinan, Amit Shrira, Dov Shmotkin

Reliability of adverse symptom event reporting by clinicians

Thomas M. Atkinson, Yuelin Li, Charles W. Coffey, Laura Sit, Mary Shaw, Dawn Lavene, Antonia V. Bennett, Mike Fruscione, Lauren Rogak, Jennifer Hay, Mithat Gönen, Deborah Schrag, Ethan Basch

Relationship between health-related quality of life and clustering of metabolic syndrome diagnostic components

• Brief Communication

Sayuri Katano, Yasuyuki Nakamura, Aki Nakamura, Yoshimi Suzukamo, Yoshitaka Murakami, Taichiro Tanaka, Akira Okayama, Katsuyuki Miura, Tomonori Okamura, Shunichi Fukuhara, Hirotsugu Ueshima

Impact of diabetes mellitus on quality of life in patients with congestive heart failure

Buntaro Fujita, Alexander Lauten, Bjoern Goebel, Marcus Franz, Michael Fritzenwanger, Markus Ferrari, Hans R. Figulla, Friedhelm Kuethe, Christian Jung

Health-related quality of life changes associated with buprenorphine treatment for opioid dependence

Dennis W. Raisch, Heather M. Campbell, David A. Garnand, Mark A. Jones, Mike R. Sather, Rupali Naik, Walter Ling

The associations among economic hardship, caregiver psychological distress, disease activity, and health-related quality of life in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Karine Toupin April, Sabrina Cavallo, Debbie Ehrmann Feldman, Andy Ni

Mapping the cancer-specific EORTC QLQ-C30 and EORTC QLQ-BR23 to the generic EQ-5D in metastatic breast cancer patients

Eun-ju Kim, Su-Kyoung Ko, Hye-Young Kang

Validity, reliability and responsiveness of the EQ-5D in German stroke patients undergoing rehabilitation

Matthias Hunger, Carla Sabariego, Björn Stollenwerk, Alarcos Cieza, Reiner Leidl

Reliability and validity of PDQ-39: a quality-of-life measure for patients with PD in China

• Brief Communication

Jing-Lin Zhang, Piu Chan

PROMIS® Parent Proxy Report Scales: an item response theory analysis of the parent proxy report item banks

James W. Varni, David Thissen, Brian D. Stucky, Yang Liu, Hally Gorder, Debra E. Irwin, Esi Morgan DeWitt, Jin-Shei Lai, Dagmar Amtmann, Darren A. DeWalt

The internal responsiveness of the Oral Health Impact Profile-14 to detect differences in clinical parameters related to surgical third molar removal

• Open Access

J. M. Kieffer, A. J. van Wijk, J. P. Ho, J. A. H. Lindeboom

Validation of the Swedish translation of the general self-efficacy scale

• Brief Communication

Jesper Löve, Crystal Dea Moore, Gunnel Hensing

The anemia impact measure (AIM): development and content validation of a patient-reported outcome measure of anemia symptoms and symptom impacts in cancer patients receiving chemotherapy

Leah Kleinman, Katy Benjamin, Hema Viswanathan, Maria Stoeckl Mattera, Linda Bosserman, Douglas W. Blayney, Dennis A. Revicki

Psychometric evaluation of the Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire-Revised in a national sample

Alexandra L. Quittner, Gregory S. Sawicki, Ann McMullen, Lawrence Rasouliyan, David J. Pasta, Ashley Yegin, Michael W. Konstan

Erratum to: Psychometric evaluation of the Cystic Fibrosis Questionnaire-Revised in a national, US sample

• Erratum

Alexandra L. Quittner, Gregory S. Sawicki, Ann McMullen, Lawrence Rasouliyan, David J. Pasta, Ashley Yegin, Michael W. Konstan

Confirmatory factor analysis of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-12) in Spanish adolescents

Alicia Padrón, Iñaki Galán, María Durbán, Ana Gandarillas, Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo

Validation of the Japanese translation of the Swallowing Disturbance Questionnaire in Parkinson’s disease patients

• Brief Communication

Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Kensuke Ikeda, Harumi Usui, Masako Miyamoto, Miho Murata