Quality of Life Research

Health-related quality of life, obesity, and fitness in schoolchildren: the Cuenca study

Pablo Franquelo Morales, Mairena Sánchez-López, Pablo Moya-Martínez, Jorge Cañete García-Prieto, María Martínez-Andrés, Noelia Lahoz García, Vicente Martínez-Vizcaíno

Impact of hepatitis B and C co-infection on health-related quality of life in HIV positive individuals

Jennifer Gillis, Curtis Cooper, Sean Rourke, Sergio Rueda, Kelly O’Brien, Evan Collins, Anita Rachlis, Trevor A. Hart, Janet Raboud

Health-related quality of life in patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome and frequently associated comorbidities

Anne M. Suskind, Sandra H. Berry, Marika J. Suttorp, Marc N. Elliott, Ron D. Hays, Brett A. Ewing, J. Quentin Clemens

Determinants of health-related quality of life in people with Parkinson’s disease: a path analysis

Sze-Ee Soh, Jennifer L. McGinley, Jennifer J. Watts, Robert Iansek, Anna T. Murphy, Hylton B. Menz, Frances Huxham, Meg E. Morris

Perceived social support predicted quality of life in patients with heart failure, but the effect is mediated by depressive symptoms

Misook L. Chung, Debra K. Moser, Terry A. Lennie, Susan K. Frazier

The independent effect of body mass index on health-related quality of life among racial and ethnic subgroups

M. J. Huisingh-Scheetz, S. P. Bilir, P. Rush, D. Burnet, W. Dale

Weight status, quality of life, and cigarette smoking among adolescents in Washington State

Hong-Mei Wang, Janice F. Bell, Todd C. Edwards, Donald L. Patrick

Intergenerational educational mobility on general mental health and depressive symptoms in young women

Leigh Tooth, Gita Mishra

Health behaviors contribute to quality of life in patients with advanced heart failure independent of psychological and medical patient characteristics

Vina Bunyamin, Heike Spaderna, Gerdi Weidner

Relationship between implantation of missing anterior teeth and oral health-related quality of life

Shu-Juan Yu, Peng Chen, Guo-Xiong Zhu

Functional status, life-space mobility, and quality of life: a longitudinal mediation analysis

John P. Bentley, Cynthia J. Brown, Gerald McGwin Jr., Patricia Sawyer, Richard M. Allman, David L. Roth

Perception of stress level, trunk appearance, body function and mental health in females with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis treated conservatively: a longitudinal analysis

• Open Access

Ewa Misterska, Maciej Glowacki, Joanna Latuszewska, Katarzyna Adamczyk

Physical activity and quality of life in older adults: an 18-month panel analysis

Siobhan M. Phillips, Thomas R. Wójcicki, Edward McAuley

Measurement issues in the evaluation of chronic disease self-management programs

Sandra Nolte, Gerald R. Elsworth, Stanton Newman, Richard H. Osborne

The association of responsiveness in oral and general health-related quality of life with patients’ satisfaction of new complete dentures

Hsiao-Ching Kuo, Ying-Se Kuo, I-Chen Lee, Jen-Chyan Wang, Yi-Hsin Yang

Predicting preference-based SF-6D index scores from the SF-8 health survey

P. Wang, A. Z. Fu, H. L. Wee, J. Lee, E. S. Tai, J. Thumboo, N. Luo

Development and validation of a mental health subscale from the Quality of Well-Being Self-Administered

Andrew J. Sarkin, Erik J. Groessl, Jordan A. Carlson, Steven R. Tally, Robert M. Kaplan, William J. Sieber, Theodore G. Ganiats

Elicitation of health state utilities in soft tissue sarcoma

• Original Paper

Sarah L. Shingler, Paul Swinburn, Andrew Lloyd, Jose Diaz, Robert Isbell, Stephanie Manson, Charlotte Benson

Comparing the performance of the standard EQ-5D 3L with the new version EQ-5D 5L in patients with chronic hepatic diseases

Luciana Scalone, Roberta Ciampichini, Stefano Fagiuoli, Ivan Gardini, Francesco Fusco, Laura Gaeta, Anna Del Prete, Giancarlo Cesana, Lorenzo G. Mantovani

Measurement properties of the EQ-5D-5L compared to the EQ-5D-3L across eight patient groups: a multi-country study

• Open Access

M. F. Janssen, A. Simon Pickard, Dominik Golicki, Claire Gudex, Maciej Niewada, Luciana Scalone, Paul Swinburn, Jan Busschbach

Evaluating the Serbian version of the KIDSCREEN quality-of-life questionnaires: reliability, validity, and agreement between children’s and parents’ ratings

• Brief Communication

Dejan Stevanovic, Ivana Tadic, Tanja Novakovic, Darija Kisic-Tepavcevic, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer

The psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Foot Health Status Questionnaire

• Brief Communication

Antonio Cuesta-Vargas, Paul Bennett, Ana Maria Jimenez-Cebrian, Maria Teresa Labajos-Manzanares

Comparison of the measurement properties between a short and generic instrument, the 5-level EuroQoL Group’s 5-dimension (EQ-5D-5L) questionnaire, and a longer and disease-specific instrument, the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy—Breast (FACT-B), in Asian breast cancer patients

• Brief Communication

Chun Fan Lee, Nan Luo, Raymond Ng, Nan Soon Wong, Yoon Sim Yap, Soo Kien Lo, Whay Kuang Chia, Alethea Yee, Lalit Krishna, Celest Wong, Cynthia Goh, Yin Bun Cheung

The psychometric testing of the Thai version of the health utilities index in patients with ischemic heart disease

• Brief Communication

Weena Saiguay, Phantipa Sakthong

Measuring acceptance in irritable bowel syndrome: preliminary validation of an adapted scale and construct utility

• Brief Communication

Nuno Bravo Ferreira, Maria P. Eugenicos, Paul Graham Morris, David T. Gillanders

Validation of the Korean version of the Pain Catastrophizing Scale in patients with chronic non-cancer pain

• Brief Communication

Sungkun Cho, Hye-Young Kim, Jang-Han Lee

The validation of the Turkish version of Asthma Control Test

• Brief Communication

Mehmet Atilla Uysal, Dilsad Mungan, Arzu Yorgancioglu, Fusun Yildiz, Metin Akgun, Bilun Gemicioglu, Haluk Turktas

Erratum to: The validation of the Turkish version of Asthma Control Test

• Erratum

Mehmet Atilla Uysal, Dilsad Mungan, Arzu Yorgancioglu, Fusun Yildiz, Metin Akgun, Bilun Gemicioglu, Haluk Turktas, Gulcihan Ozkan, Insu Yilmaz, Mine Incioglu, Hasim Boyaci, Sibel Atis, Aslihan Yalcin, Nazan Gulhan Bayram, Figen Deveci, Didem Pulur, Eylem Selcan Ozgur, Berna Dursun, Yilmaz Bulbul, Ebru Sulu, Veysel Yilmaz

The effect of Tai Chi on health-related quality of life in people with elevated blood glucose or diabetes: a randomized controlled trial

• Brief Communication

Xin Liu, Yvette D. Miller, Nicola W. Burton, Jiun-Horng Chang, Wendy J. Brown

Systematic review reveals limitations of studies evaluating health-related quality of life after potentially curative treatment for esophageal cancer

• Review

Marc Jacobs, Rhiannon C. Macefield, Jane M. Blazeby, Ida J. Korfage, Mark I. van Berge Henegouwen, Hanneke C. J. M. de Haes, Ellen M. Smets, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers

A systematic review of outcomes of chronic disease self-management interventions

• Review

Sandra Nolte, Richard H. Osborne

Erratum to: A systematic review of outcomes of chronic disease self-management interventions

• Erratum

Sandra Nolte, Richard H. Osborne

Evaluation of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Information System (PROMIS®) Spanish-language physical functioning items

Sylvia H. Paz, Karen L. Spritzer, Leo S. Morales, Ron D. Hays

An investigation of the construct validity of the ICECAP-A capability measure

• Open Access

Hareth Al-Janabi, Tim J. Peters, John Brazier, Stirling Bryan, Terry N. Flynn, Sam Clemens, Alison Moody, Joanna Coast

Validation of the Food Allergy Quality of Life—Parental Burden Questionnaire in the UK

Rebecca C. Knibb, Carol Stalker

Evaluation of item candidates for a diabetic retinopathy quality of life item bank

Eva K. Fenwick, Konrad Pesudovs, Jyoti Khadka, Gwyn Rees, Tien Y. Wong, Ecosse L. Lamoureux

Psychometric characteristics of daily diaries for the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®): a preliminary investigation

Stefan Schneider, Seung W. Choi, Doerte U. Junghaenel, Joseph E. Schwartz, Arthur A. Stone

Philosophical perspectives on response shift

Leah McClimans, Jerome Bickenbach, Marjan Westerman, Licia Carlson, David Wasserman, Carolyn Schwartz

Pitfalls in the interpretation of standardised quality of life instruments for individual patients? A qualitative study in colorectal cancer

Timothy R. Wilson, Yvonne Birks, David J. Alexander