Quality of Life Research

Response shift effects on measuring post-operative quality of life among breast cancer patients: a multicenter cohort study

T. S. Dabakuyo, F. Guillemin, T. Conroy, M. Velten, D. Jolly, M. Mercier, S. Causeret, J. Cuisenier, O. Graesslin, M. Gauthier, F. Bonnetain

Worsening trends and increasing disparities in health-related quality of life: evidence from two French population-based cross-sectional surveys, 1995–2003

Etienne Audureau, Stéphane Rican, Joël Coste

Quality-adjusted life expectancy (QALE) loss due to smoking in the United States

Haomiao Jia, Matthew M. Zack, William W. Thompson, Shanta R. Dube

The health-related quality of life burden of co-morbid cardiovascular disease and major depressive disorder in Australia: findings from a population-based, cross-sectional study

• Open Access

Adrienne O’Neil, Christopher E. Stevenson, Emily D. Williams, Duncan Mortimer, Brian Oldenburg, Kristy Sanderson

Health-related quality-of-life status in Veterans with spinal disorders

Maxwell Boakye, Ryan Moore, Maiying Kong, Stephen L. Skirboll, Robert T. Arrigo

Estimating utilities for chronic kidney disease, using SF-36 and SF-12-based measures: challenges in a population of veterans with diabetes

Mangala Rajan, Kuan-Chi Lai, Chin-Lin Tseng, Shirley Qian, Alfredo Selim, Lewis Kazis, Leonard Pogach, Anushua Sinha

Subjective wellbeing and ‘felt’ stigma when living with HIV

Vicki E. Hutton, RoseAnne Misajon, Francesca E. Collins

Post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome symptomatology and the impact on life functioning: is there something here?

• Open Access

John N. Aucott, Alison W. Rebman, Lauren A. Crowder, Kathleen B. Kortte

Understanding older patients’ self-management abilities: functional loss, self-management, and well-being

• Open Access

J. M. Cramm, J. M. Hartgerink, E. W. Steyerberg, T. J. Bakker, J. P. Mackenbach, A. P. Nieboer

Life satisfaction in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain and its predictors

Anne M. Boonstra, Michiel F. Reneman, Roy E. Stewart, Marcel W. Post, Henrica R. Schiphorst Preuper

A procedure for obtaining Impact of Cancer version 2 scores using version 1 responses

• Brief Communication

Catherine M. Crespi, Patricia A. Ganz, Laura Petersen, Sophia K. Smith

Missing content from health-related quality of life instruments: interviews with young adult survivors of childhood cancer

Gwendolyn P. Quinn, I-Chan Huang, Devin Murphy, Katie Zidonik-Eddelton, Kevin R. Krull

The Caregivers Quality of Life Cancer index scale (CQoLC): an exploratory factor analysis for validation in French cancer patients’ spouses

• Brief Communication

Anaïs Lafaye, Stéphanie De Chalvron, Nadine Houédé, Houchingue Eghbali, Florence Cousson-Gélie

Construct validity of the EORTC quality of life questionnaire information module

Susanne Singer, Philipp M. Engelberg, Gregor Weißflog, Susanne Kuhnt, Jochen Ernst

Validation of a new patient-generated questionnaire for quality of life in an urban sample of elder residents

• Brief Communication

Martin Holzhausen, Peter Martus

Testing the psychometric properties of the Participation Scale in Eastern Nepal

• Open Access

S. A. M. Stevelink, C. B. Terwee, N. Banstola, W. H. van Brakel

The factor structure of the GHQ-12: the interaction between item phrasing, variance and levels of distress

Adam B. Smith, Yemi Oluboyede, Robert West, Jenny Hewison, Allan O. House

Clinical dimensions of fibromyalgia symptoms and development of a combined index of severity: The CODI index

Antonio Cuesta-Vargas, Juan V. Luciano, Maria Teresa Peñarrubia-María, Javier García-Campayo, Rita Fernández-Vergel, Manuel Arroyo-Morales, Antoni Serrano-Blanco

The Cardiff Acne Disability Index (CADI): linguistic and cultural validation in Serbian

• Brief Communication

Slavenka Jankovic, Jelica Vukicevic, Sanja Djordjevic, Janko Jankovic, Jelena Marinkovic, Mohammad K. A. Basra

Validation of the Brazilian version of Chronic Liver Disease Questionnaire

• Brief Communication

Samantha Mucci, Vanessa de Albuquerque Citero, Adriano Miziara Gonzalez, Luciana Geocze, Stephan Geocze, Gaspar de Jesus Lopes Filho, Mario Alfredo De Marco, Edison Roberto Parise, Luiz Antonio Nogueira Martins

Measuring preference-based quality of life in children aged 6–7 years: a comparison of the performance of the CHU-9D and EQ-5D-Y—the WAVES Pilot Study

Alastair G. Canaway, Emma J. Frew

Factors influencing self- and parent-reporting health-related quality of life in children with brain tumors

Iori Sato, Akiko Higuchi, Takaaki Yanagisawa, Akitake Mukasa, Kohmei Ida, Yutaka Sawamura, Kazuhiko Sugiyama, Nobuhito Saito, Toshihiro Kumabe, Mizuhiko Terasaki, Ryo Nishikawa, Yasushi Ishida, Kiyoko Kamibeppu

The influence of parental education on child mental health in Spain

Michela Sonego, Alicia Llácer, Iñaki Galán, Fernando Simón

Health related quality of life measures in Arabic speaking populations: A systematic review on cross-cultural adaptation and measurement properties

• Review

Fatima Al Sayah, Sana Ishaque, Darren Lau, Jeffrey A. Johnson