Quality of Life Research

The Active Ageing–concept translated to the residential long-term care

Lien Van Malderen, Tony Mets, Patricia De Vriendt, Ellen Gorus

How do doctors refer to patient-reported outcome measures (PROMS) in oncology consultations?

Joanne Greenhalgh, Purva Abhyankar, Serena McCluskey, Elena Takeuchi, Galina Velikova

Health-related quality of life of Greek adolescents: the role of the Mediterranean diet

V. Costarelli, E. Koretsi, E. Georgitsogianni

Self- and surrogate-reported communication functioning in aphasia

Patrick J. Doyle, William D. Hula, Shannon N. Austermann Hula, Clement A. Stone, Julie L. Wambaugh, Katherine B. Ross, James G. Schumacher

A comparison of the ICECAP-O with EQ-5D in a falls prevention clinical setting: are they complements or substitutes?

Jennifer C. Davis, Teresa Liu-Ambrose, Chris G. Richardson, Stirling Bryan

Visual analogue scales: scale recalibration by patients with dementia and their proxies

• Open Access

Alexander M. M. Arons, Paul F. M. Krabbe, Gert Jan van der Wilt, Marcel G. M. Olde Rikkert, Eddy M. M. Adang

The utility of the behavioral risk factor surveillance system (BRFSS) in testing quality of life theory: an evaluation using structural equation modeling

Victoria M. Rizzo, Evelyn Kintner

Non-severe nocturnal hypoglycemic events: experience and impacts on patient functioning and well-being

• Open Access

Meryl Brod, Betsy Pohlman, Michael Wolden, Torsten Christensen

Life satisfaction and health-related quality of life in immigrants and native-born Germans: the role of immigration-related factors

Yuriy Nesterko, Elmar Braehler, Gesine Grande, Heide Glaesmer

The impact of second-line agents on patients’ health-related quality of life in the treatment for non-small cell lung cancer: a systematic review

• Review

Arijit Ganguli, Phillip Wiegand, Xin Gao, John A. Carter, Marc F. Botteman, Saurabh Ray

Determinants of health-related quality of life after aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage: a systematic review

P. E. C. A. Passier, J. M. A. Visser-Meily, G. J. E. Rinkel, E. Lindeman, M. W. M. Post

An assessment of the external validity of mapping QLQ-C30 to EQ-5D preferences

Ralph Crott, Matthijs Versteegh, Carin Uyl-de-Groot

Usefulness of EQ-5D for evaluation of health-related quality of life in young adults with first-episode psychosis

J. Stochl, T. Croudace, J. Perez, M. Birchwood, H. Lester, M. Marshall, T. Amos, V. Sharma, D. Fowler, P. B. Jones

Mapping of the PDQ-39 to EQ-5D scores in patients with Parkinson’s disease

Megan K. Young, Shu-Kay Ng, George Mellick, Paul A. Scuffham

Introducing the WHOQOL-SRPB BREF: developing a short-form instrument for assessing spiritual, religious and personal beliefs within quality of life

Suzanne M. Skevington, Keely Sarah Gunson, Kathryn Ann O’Connell

Evaluation of a role functioning computer adaptive test (RF-CAT)

M. Anatchkova, M. Rose, J. Ware, J. B. Bjorner

Further evidence of reliability and validity of the Huntington’s disease quality of life battery for carers: Italian and French translations

• Brief Communication

Aimee Aubeeluck, Julie Dorey, Ferdinando Squitieri, Emilie Clay, Edward J. N. Stupple, Annunziata De Nicola, Heather Buchanan, Tiziana Martino, Mondher Toumi

Adaptation into Spanish of the Warwick–Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (WEMWBS) and preliminary validation in a student sample

• Brief Communication

María Andrée López, Andrea Gabilondo, Miquel Codony, Carlos García-Forero, Gemma Vilagut, Pere Castellví, Montse Ferrer, Jordi Alonso

Validity of the FACT Hepatobiliary (FACT-Hep) questionnaire for assessing disease-related symptoms and health-related quality of life in patients with metastatic pancreatic cancer

David Cella, Zeeshan Butt, Hedy Lee Kindler, Charles S. Fuchs, Sarah Bray, Arie Barlev, Alan Oglesby

Discriminant and convergent validity of a subjective quality-of-life instrument aimed at high content validity for schizophrenic persons

M. Franz, M. Fritz, T. Meyer

The psychometric properties of the Migraine-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire version 2.1 (MSQ) in chronic migraine patients

• Open Access

Regina Rendas-Baum, Lisa M. Bloudek, Gregory A. Maglinte, Sepideh F. Varon

Measurement invariance of the SF-12 across European-American, Latina, and African-American postpartum women

Tamer F. Desouky, Pablo A. Mora, Elizabeth A. Howell

Favorable effects of explanatory illustrations attached to a self-administered questionnaire for upper extremity disorders

Shigeru Kurimoto, Michiro Yamamoto, Takaaki Shinohara, Masahiro Tatebe, Iwatsuki Katsuyuki, Hitoshi Hirata

The Hearing Handicap Inventory for Elderly-Screening (HHIE-S) versus a single question: reliability, validity, and relations with quality of life measures in the elderly community, Japan

Kimiko Tomioka, Hiroki Ikeda, Kaoru Hanaie, Masayuki Morikawa, Junko Iwamoto, Nozomi Okamoto, Keigo Saeki, Norio Kurumatani