Quality of Life Research

Changing values, changing outcomes: the influence of reprioritization response shift on outcome assessment after spine surgery

Carolyn E. Schwartz, Tolulope T. Sajobi, Lisa M. Lix, Brian R. Quaranto, Joel A. Finkelstein

Does providing feedback on patient-reported outcomes to healthcare professionals result in better outcomes for patients? A systematic review

• Review

Maria B. Boyce, John P. Browne

Deriving clinically meaningful cut-scores for fatigue in a cohort of breast cancer survivors: a Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle (HEAL) Study

Angela M. Stover, Bryce B. Reeve, Barbara F. Piper, Catherine M. Alfano, Ashley Wilder Smith, Sandra A. Mitchell, Leslie Bernstein, Kathy B. Baumgartner, Anne McTiernan, Rachel Ballard-Barbash

Quality-of-life loss of people admitted to burn centers, United States

Ted Miller, Soma Bhattacharya, William Zamula, Dennis Lezotte, Karen Kowalske, David Herndon, James Fauerbach, Loren Engrav

Integrating health-related quality of life with sickness leave days for return-to-work assessment in traumatic limb injuries

Wen-Hsuan Hou, Huey-Wen Liang, Ching-Lin Hsieh, Ching-Fan Sheu, Jing-Shiang Hwang, Hung-Yi Chuang

Impact of telemonitoring on older adults health-related quality of life: the Tele-ERA study

Jennifer L. Pecina, Gregory J. Hanson, Holly Van Houten, Paul Y. Takahashi

Pattern of impact of femoroacetabular impingement upon health-related quality of life: the determinant role of extra-articular factors

Claudio Diaz-Ledezma, Paul M. Lichstein, Mitchell Maltenfort, Camilo Restrepo, Javad Parvizi

Using group-based trajectory modeling to examine heterogeneity of symptom burden in patients with head and neck cancer undergoing aggressive non-surgical therapy

Qiuling Shi, Tito R. Mendoza, G. Brandon Gunn, Xin Shelley Wang, David I. Rosenthal, Charles S. Cleeland

Satisfaction with oncology care among patients with advanced cancer and their caregivers

Breffni Hannon, Nadia Swami, Monika K. Krzyzanowska, Natasha Leighl, Gary Rodin, Lisa W. Le, Camilla Zimmermann

Physical activity and health-related quality of life among adult women in Cali, Colombia: a cross-sectional study

Luis F. Gómez, José Moreno, Olga L. Gómez, Rocio Carvajal, Diana C. Parra

Measurement bias of the SF-36 Health Survey in older adults with chronic conditions

Hongdao Meng, Bellinda L. King-Kallimanis, Amber Gum, Brenda Wamsley

Quality of life, human insecurity, and distress among Palestinians in the Gaza Strip before and after the Winter 2008–2009 Israeli war

Weeam Hammoudeh, Dennis Hogan, Rita Giacaman

Increases in physical activity may affect quality of life differently in men and women: the PACE project

Stephanie Whisnant Cash, Glen E. Duncan, Shirley A. A. Beresford, Anne McTiernan, Donald L. Patrick

Patient-reported outcomes in the practice-based opportunities for weight reduction (POWER) trial

R. R. Rubin, M. Peyrot, N.-Y. Wang, J. W. Coughlin, G. J. Jerome, S. L. Fitzpatrick, W. L. Bennett, A. Dalcin, G. Daumit, N. Durkin, Y.-T. Chang, H.-C. Yeh, T. A. Louis, L. J. Appel

Health status and (health-related) quality of life during the recovery of distal radius fractures: a systematic review

• Review

M. A. C. Van Son, J. De Vries, J. A. Roukema, B. L. Den Oudsten

Development and psychometric properties of the PROMIS® pediatric fatigue item banks

Jin-Shei Lai, Brian D. Stucky, David Thissen, James W. Varni, Esi Morgan DeWitt, Debra E. Irwin, Karin B. Yeatts, Darren A. DeWalt

Evidence for a unidimensional 15-item version of the CASP-19 using a Rasch model approach

Yemi Oluboyede, Adam B. Smith

Validation of a Dutch version of the Neurological Fatigue Index (NFI-MS) for patients with multiple sclerosis in the Netherlands

Arthur Derksen, Lidwine B. Mokkink, Marc B. Rietberg, Dirk L. Knol, Raymond W. J. G. Ostelo, Bernard M. J. Uitdehaag

Psychometric evaluation of the EORTC computerized adaptive test (CAT) fatigue item pool

Morten Aa. Petersen, Johannes M. Giesinger, Bernhard Holzner, Juan I. Arraras, Thierry Conroy, Eva-Maria Gamper, Madeleine T. King, Irma M. Verdonck-de Leeuw, Teresa Young, Mogens Groenvold

Comparison of the responsiveness of the SF-36, the Oxford Knee Score, and the Knee Society Clinical Rating System in patients undergoing total knee replacement

• Brief Communication

Yu Ko, Ngai-Nung Lo, Seng-Jin Yeo, Kuang-Ying Yang, William Yeo, Hwei-Chi Chong, Julian Thumboo

Comparative responsiveness and minimal change of the Knee Quality of Life 26-item (KQoL-26) questionnaire

Ling-Hsiang Chuang, Andrew Garratt, Stephen Brealey

Development of a vision-targeted health-related quality of life item measure

Sylvia H. Paz, Jerry Slotkin, Roberta McKean-Cowdin, Paul Lee, Cynthia Owsley, Susan Vitale, Rohit Varma, Richard Gershon, Ron D. Hays

Psychometric validation of the physician global assessment scale for assessing severity of psoriasis disease activity

J. C. Cappelleri, A. G. Bushmakin, J. Harness, C. Mamolo

Reliability and validity of the English (Singapore) and Chinese (Singapore) versions of the Short-Form 36 version 2 in a multi-ethnic Urban Asian population in Singapore

• Brief Communication

Julian Thumboo, Yi Wu, E-Shyong Tai, Barbara Gandek, Jeannette Lee, Stefan Ma, Derrick Heng, Hwee-Lin Wee

Measurement properties of the QuickDASH (Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand) outcome measure and cross-cultural adaptations of the QuickDASH: a systematic review

• Review

Carol A. Kennedy, Dorcas E. Beaton, Peter Smith, Dwayne Van Eerd, Kenneth Tang, Taucha Inrig, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Denise Linton, Rachel Couban

Psychometric evaluation of the CASP-19 quality of life scale in an older Irish cohort

Eithne Sexton, Bellinda L. King-Kallimanis, Ronan M. Conroy, Anne Hickey

Can pain and function be distinguished in the Oxford Knee Score in a meaningful way? An exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis

Kristina Harris, Jill Dawson, Helen Doll, Richard E. Field, David W. Murray, Raymond Fitzpatrick, Crispin Jenkinson, Andrew J. Price, David J. Beard

Development and validation of the positive affect and well-being scale for the neurology quality of life (Neuro-QOL) measurement system

John M. Salsman, David Victorson, Seung W. Choi, Amy H. Peterman, Allen W. Heinemann, Cindy Nowinski, David Cella

Factorial invariance of pediatric patient self-reported fatigue across age and gender: a multigroup confirmatory factor analysis approach utilizing the PedsQL™ Multidimensional Fatigue Scale

James W. Varni, A. Alexander Beaujean, Christine A. Limbers

Strengthening the assessment of factorial invariance across population subgroups: a commentary on Varni et al. (2013)

• Commentary

Cameron N. McIntosh

Commentary on strengthening the assessment of factorial invariance across population subgroups: a commentary on Varni et al. (2013)

• Commentary

A. Alexander Beaujean, Christine A. Limbers, James W. Varni

The effect of weight status, lifestyle, and body image perception on health-related quality of life in children: a quantile approach

Elisabetta Petracci, Giulia Cavrini

Health-related quality of life in children with obstetrical brachial plexus palsy

Burcu Semin Akel, Çiğdem Öksüz, Deran Oskay, Tüzün Fırat, Ela Tarakcı, Gürsel Leblebicioğlu

Pitfalls in subgroup analysis based on growth mixture models: a commentary on van Leeuwen et al. (2012)

• Commentary

Cameron N. McIntosh