Quality of Life Research

ISOQOL recommends minimum standards for patient-reported outcome measures used in patient-centered outcomes and comparative effectiveness research

Bryce B. Reeve, Kathleen W. Wyrwich, Albert W. Wu, Galina Velikova, Caroline B. Terwee, Claire F. Snyder, Carolyn Schwartz, Dennis A. Revicki, Carol M. Moinpour, Lori D. McLeod, Jessica C. Lyons, William R. Lenderking, Pamela S. Hinds, Ron D. Hays, Joanne Greenhalgh, Richard Gershon, David Feeny, Peter M. Fayers, David Cella, Michael Brundage, Sara Ahmed, Neil K. Aaronson, Zeeshan Butt

Psychometric properties of a computerized adaptive test for assessing mobility in older adults using novel video-animation technology

Edward H. Ip, W. Jack Rejeski, Anthony P. Marsh, Ryan Barnard, Shyh-Huei Chen

Cognitive testing of the WHOQOL-BREF Bangladesh tool in a northern rural Bangladeshi population with lymphatic filariasis

Lynne Zeldenryk, Susan Gordon, Marion Gray, Richard Speare, Wayne Melrose, Moazzem Hossain, Gary Williams

Performance of the EORTC questionnaire for the assessment of quality of life in head and neck cancer patients EORTC QLQ-H&N35: a methodological review

Susanne Singer, Juan Ignacio Arraras, Wei-Chu Chie, Sheila E. Fisher, Razvan Galalae, Eva Hammerlid, Ourania Nicolatou-Galitis, Claudia Schmalz, Irma Verdonck-de Leeuw, Eva Gamper, Judith Keszte, Dirk Hofmeister

Validation of a new quality of life scale related to multiple sclerosis and relapses

Antoine Baroin, Gilles Chopard, Gaye Siliman, Clément Michoudet, Aurore Vivot, Chrystelle Vidal, Hassna Mokadym, Annick Lavier, Ėric Berger, Lucien Rumbach, Nathalie Rude

SF-36v2 norms and its’ discriminative properties among healthy households of tuberculosis patients in Malaysia

Muhammad Atif, Syed Azhar Syed Sulaiman, Asrul Akmal Shafie, Muhammad Asif, Nafees Ahmad

Psychometric testing of the Chinese Mandarin version of the Medical Outcomes Study Social Support Survey in patients with coronary heart disease in mainland China

• Brief Communication

Wenru Wang, Xuemei Zheng, Hong-Gu He, David R. Thompson

Psychometric and factor analytic evaluation of the 15D health-related quality of life instrument: the case of Greece

Fotios Anagnostopoulos, John Yfantopoulos, Irini Moustaki, Dimitris Niakas

Evaluation of the Social Participation Questionnaire in adult patients with depressive symptoms using Rasch analysis

Konstancja Densley, Sandra Davidson, Jane M. Gunn

A new indicator for the measurement of change with ordinal scores

Mario Luiz Pinto Ferreira, Renan Moritz V. R. Almeida, Ronir Raggio Luiz

Commentary on “A new indicator for the measurement of change with ordinal scores”

• Commentary

Aaron Yarlas

On “A new indicator for the measurement of change with ordinal scores”

• Response

Renan Moritz V. R. Almeida, Ronir Raggio Luiz

Effect of changes in moderate or vigorous physical activity on changes in health-related quality of life of elderly British women over seven years

Minkyoung Choi, David Prieto-Merino, Caroline Dale, Eveline Nüesch, Antoinette Amuzu, Ann Bowling, Shah Ebrahim, Juan P. Casas

Contribution of taking part in sport to the association between physical activity and quality of life

Yacoubou Abdou Omorou, Marie-Line Erpelding, Hélène Escalon, Anne Vuillemin

Family sense of coherence and quality of life

Fei-Wan Ngai, Siew-Fei Ngu

Type D personality and patient-perceived health in nonsignificant coronary artery disease: the TWeesteden mIld STenosis (TWIST) study

Paula M. C. Mommersteeg, Irene Pot, Wilbert Aarnoudse, Johan Denollet, Jos W. Widdershoven

Explaining quality of life of older people in the Netherlands using a multidimensional assessment of frailty

Robbert J. J. Gobbens, Katrien G. Luijkx, Marcel A. L. M. van Assen

Well-being in mothers of children with congenital heart defects: a 3-year follow-up

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

The impact of HIV status, HIV disease progression, and post-traumatic stress symptoms on the health-related quality of life of Rwandan women genocide survivors

Tracy L. Gard, Donald R. Hoover, Qiuhu Shi, Mardge H. Cohen, Eugene Mutimura, Adebola A. Adedimeji, Kathryn Anastos

Empirically driven definitions of “good,” “moderate,” and “poor” levels of functioning in the treatment of schizophrenia

• Open Access

Haya Ascher-Svanum, Diego Novick, Josep Maria Haro, Jaume Aguado, Zhanglin Cui

Analysis of mental disorders in tinnitus patients performed with Composite International Diagnostic Interview

N. Zirke, C. Seydel, D. Arsoy, B. F. Klapp, H. Haupt, A. J. Szczepek, H. Olze, G. Goebel, B. Mazurek

Understanding the impact of racial self-identification on perceptions of health-related quality of life: a multi-group analysis

Victoria M. Rizzo, Evelyn Kintner

Quality of life of people who inject drugs: characteristics and comparisons with other population samples

• Brief Communication

Jane A. Fischer, Sue Conrad, Alexandra M. Clavarino, Robert Kemp, Jackob M. Najman

Health-related quality of life improvement via telemedicine for epilepsy: printed versus SMS-based education intervention

Pei Lin Lua, Widiasmoro Selamat Neni

A prospective examination of the impact of a supported employment program and employment on health-related quality of life, handicap, and disability among Veterans with SCI

Lisa Ottomanelli, Scott D. Barnett, Lance L. Goetz

Prognostic value of patient-reported symptom interference in patients with late-stage lung cancer

Bradley J. Barney, Xin Shelley Wang, Charles Lu, Zhongxing Liao, Valen E. Johnson, Charles S. Cleeland, Tito R. Mendoza

Confirmatory factor analysis of the PedsQL among youth in a residential treatment setting

• Brief Communication

Steven Hoffman, Matthew C. Lambert, Timothy D. Nelson, Alexandra L. Trout, Michael H. Epstein, Robert Pick

Exposure to traumatic events and health-related quality of life in preschool-aged children

Yvonne Humenay Roberts, Monette Ferguson, Cindy A. Crusto

Content validity of the PedsQL™ 3.2 Diabetes Module in newly diagnosed patients with Type 1 diabetes mellitus ages 8–45

James W. Varni, Bradley H. Curtis, Linda N. Abetz, Kathryn E. Lasch, Elisabeth C. Piault, Andrea A. Zeytoonjian

Condition-specific quality of life questionnaires for caregivers of children with pediatric conditions: a systematic review

• Review

Maria Yui Kwan Chow, Angela M. Morrow, Spring Chenoa Cooper Robbins, Julie Leask

Factor structure of the Child Health Questionnaire Parent Form-50 and predictors of health-related quality of life in children with epilepsy

Mark A. Ferro, Jeanne M. Landgraf, Kathy N. Speechley

A systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of tuberculosis on health-related quality of life

• Open Access
• Review

M. Bauer, A. Leavens, K. Schwartzman

A comparison of the scaling properties of the English, Spanish, French, and Chinese EQ-5D descriptive systems

Nan Luo, Minghui Li, Julie Chevalier, Andrew Lloyd, Michael Herdman

Psychometric properties of the EQ-5D-5L in the general population of South Korea

Tae Hyup Kim, Min-Woo Jo, Sang-il Lee, Seon Ha Kim, Son Mi Chung