Quality of Life Research

Setting standards for severity of common symptoms in oncology using the PROMIS item banks and expert judgment

David Cella, Seung Choi, Sofia Garcia, Karon F. Cook, Sarah Rosenbloom, Jin-Shei Lai, Donna Surges Tatum, Richard Gershon

Conceptualizing disability in US national surveys: application of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health (ICF) framework

Diane E. Brandt, Pei-Shu Ho, Leighton Chan, Elizabeth K. Rasch

Physical activity and health-related quality of life: US adults with and without limitations

David R. Brown, Dianna D. Carroll, Lauren M. Workman, Susan A. Carlson, David W. Brown

Ethical behaviour in clinical practice: a multidimensional Rasch analysis from a survey of primary health care professionals of Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain)

Luis González-de Paz, Belchin Kostov, Jose A. López-Pina, Adelaida Zabalegui-Yárnoz, M. Dolores Navarro-Rubio, Antoni Sisó-Almirall

Modeling life satisfaction in spinal cord injury: the role of psychological resources

Claudio Peter, Rachel Müller, Alarcos Cieza, Marcel W. M. Post, Christel M. C. van Leeuwen, Christina S. Werner, Szilvia Geyh

Prospectively measured 10-year changes in health-related quality of life and comparison with cross-sectional estimates in a population-based cohort of adult women and men

Wilma M. Hopman, Claudie Berger, Lawrence Joseph, Wei Zhou, Jerilynn C. Prior, Tanveer Towheed, Tassos Anastassiades, Jonathan D. Adachi, David A. Hanley, Emmanuel A. Papadimitropoulos, Susan Kirkland, Stephanie M. Kaiser, Robert G. Josse, David Goltzman

The health-related quality of life of Chinese patients with lower urinary tract symptoms in primary care

Edmond P. H. Choi, Cindy L. K. Lam, Weng-Yee Chin

Factors associated with quality of life measured by EQ-5D in patients with nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease

Ji Young Hong, Sang A. Lee, Song Yee Kim, Kyung Soo Chung, Sung Woo Moon, Eun Young Kim, Ji Ye Jung, Moo Suk Park, Young Sam Kim, Se Kyu Kim, Joon Chang, Young Ae Kang

Effect of perioperative complications and functional outcomes on health-related quality of life after radical prostatectomy

Björn Löppenberg, Christian von Bodman, Marko Brock, Florian Roghmann, Joachim Noldus, Rein Jüri Palisaar

Quality of life, alcohol detoxification and relapse: Is quality of life a predictor of relapse or only a secondary outcome measure?

Rocco Luigi Picci, Francesco Oliva, Marco Zuffranieri, Paola Vizzuso, Luca Ostacoli, Alessandro Jaretti Sodano, Pier Maria Furlan

The relationships between demographic and clinical characteristics and quality of life during and after radiotherapy: in women with breast cancer

Kristin Hofsø, Kristin Bjordal, Lien My Diep, Tone Rustøen

Measurement properties of rheumatoid arthritis-specific quality-of-life questionnaires: systematic review of the literature

Jiyeon Lee, Soo Hyun Kim, Seung Hei Moon, Eun-Hyun Lee

Measurement properties of questionnaires assessing participation in children and adolescents with a disability: a systematic review

• Review

Linda Rainey, Ruth van Nispen, Carlijn van der Zee, Ger van Rens

Assessing the validity of single-item life satisfaction measures: results from three large samples

Felix Cheung, Richard E. Lucas

Assessing the invariance of a culturally competent multi-lingual unmet needs survey for immigrant and Australian-born cancer patients: a Rasch analysis

J. A. McGrane, P. N. Butow, M. Sze, M. Eisenbruch, D. Goldstein, M. T. King

Reliability and validity of a survey to measure bowel function and quality of life in long-term rectal cancer survivors

Christopher S. Wendel, Marcia Grant, Lisa Herrinton, Larissa K. F. Temple, Mark C. Hornbrook, Carmit K. McMullen, Joanna E. Bulkley, Andrea Altschuler, Robert S. Krouse

Psychometric properties and Dutch norm data of the PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale for Young Adults

• Brief communication

Lotte Haverman, Perrine F. Limperg, Hedy A. van Oers, Marion A. J. van Rossum, Heleen Maurice-Stam, Martha A. Grootenhuis

Validation of the MOS Social Support Survey 6-item (MOS-SSS-6) measure with two large population-based samples of Australian women

• Brief Communication

Libby Holden, Christina Lee, Richard Hockey, Robert S. Ware, Annette J. Dobson

Discriminatory power of a 25-item distress screening tool: a cross-sectional survey of 251 cancer survivors

Melissa F. Miller, C. Daniel Mullins, Eberechukwu Onukwugha, Mitch Golant, Joanne S. Buzaglo

Emotional vitality in family caregivers: content validation of a theoretical framework

Skye P. Barbic, Nancy E. Mayo, Carole L. White, Susan J. Bartlett

Longitudinal quality of life data: a comparison of continuous and ordinal approaches

A. F. Donneau, M. Mauer, C. Coens, A. Bottomley, A. Albert

A comparison of three methods of assessing differential item functioning (DIF) in the Hospital Anxiety Depression Scale: ordinal logistic regression, Rasch analysis and the Mantel chi-square procedure

• Brief Communication

Isobel M. Cameron, Neil W. Scott, Mats Adler, Ian C. Reid

Health status profiles in community-dwelling elderly using self-reported health indicators: a latent class analysis

Charis W. L. Ng, Nan Luo, Bee Hoon Heng

Equating the HBSC Family Affluence Scale across survey years: a method to account for item parameter drift using the Rasch model

Guido Makransky, Christina Warrer Schnohr, Torbjørn Torsheim, Candace Currie

Cancer-related fatigue in breast cancer patients: factor mixture models with continuous non-normal distributions

Rainbow T. H. Ho, Ted C. T. Fong, Irene K. M. Cheung