Quality of Life Research

Let’s engage the patient within us: a personal perspective on patient engagement

• Commentary

Carolyn E. Schwartz, Madeleine King, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers

Letter to the Editor: Concerning Paltzer, Jason, Emily Barker, and Whitney P. Witt: Measuring the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of young children in resource-limited settings: a review of existing measures, Quality of Life Research

• Commentary

Ronald D. Barr, David Feeny, William Furlong, John Horsman

Parent-reported cognition of children with cancer and its potential clinical usefulness

Jin-Shei Lai, Frank Zelko, Kevin R. Krull, David Cella, Cindy Nowinski, Peter E. Manley, Stewart Goldman

Cancer-specific health-related quality of life in children with brain tumors

Iori Sato, Akiko Higuchi, Takaaki Yanagisawa, Akitake Mukasa, Kohmei Ida, Yutaka Sawamura, Kazuhiko Sugiyama, Nobuhito Saito, Toshihiro Kumabe, Mizuhiko Terasaki, Ryo Nishikawa, Yasushi Ishida, Kiyoko Kamibeppu

Assessment of quality of life in children and youth with autism spectrum disorder: a critical review

• Review

Erika Ikeda, Erica Hinckson, Chris Krägeloh

Thirty years of portraying oral health through models: what have we accomplished in oral health-related quality of life research?

• Review

Mario A. Brondani, Michael I. MacEntee

Meta-analysis shows clinically relevant and long-lasting deterioration in health-related quality of life after esophageal cancer surgery

• Review

M. Jacobs, R. C. Macefield, R. G. Elbers, K. Sitnikova, I. J. Korfage, E. M. A. Smets, I. Henselmans, M. I. van Berge Henegouwen, J. C. J. M. de Haes, J. M. Blazeby, M. A. G. Sprangers

Quality of life in overweight and obese children and adolescents: a literature review

• Review

Marie Buttitta, Catalina Iliescu, Amélie Rousseau, Alain Guerrien

Effect of pharmacotherapy for anxiety disorders on quality of life: a meta-analysis

• Review

Stefan G. Hofmann, Jade Q. Wu, Hannah Boettcher, Jamie Sturm

Meta-analysis shows clinically relevant and long-lasting deterioration in health-related quality of life after esophageal cancer surgery

• Review

M. Jacobs, R. C. Macefield, R. G. Elbers, K. Sitnikova, I. J. Korfage, E. M. A. Smets, I. Henselmans, M. I. van Berge Henegouwen, J. C. J. M. de Haes, J. M. Blazeby, M. A. G. Sprangers

Oral Chinese herbal medicine for improvement of quality of life in patients with chronic heart failure: a systematic review and meta-analysis

• Review

Yun-Lun Li, Jian-Qing Ju, Chuan-Hua Yang, Hai-Qiang Jiang, Jing-Wen Xu, Shi-Jun Zhang

Comparison of face-to-face interview and telephone interview administration of COPD assessment test: a randomized study

Guilherme F. da Silva, Maria Tereza A. Morano, Maria Penha U. Sales, Natalia B. Olegário, Antonio George M. Cavalcante, Eanes D. B. Pereira

Usefulness of translatability assessment: results from a retrospective study

Katrin Conway, Catherine Acquadro, Donald L. Patrick

Identifying vulnerability in grief: psychometric properties of the Adult Attitude to Grief Scale

Julius Sim, Linda Machin, Bernadette Bartlam

Development of the PROMIS® pediatric global health (PGH-7) measure

Christopher B. Forrest, Katherine B. Bevans, Ramya Pratiwadi, JeanHee Moon, Rachel E. Teneralli, Jo M. Minton, Carole A. Tucker

Psychometric properties of the PROMIS® pediatric scales: precision, stability, and comparison of different scoring and administration options

James W. Varni, Brooke Magnus, Brian D. Stucky, Yang Liu, Hally Quinn, David Thissen, Heather E. Gross, I-Chan Huang, Darren A. DeWalt

Measuring daily fatigue using a brief scale adapted from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®)

Christopher Christodoulou, Stefan Schneider, Doerte U. Junghaenel, Joan E. Broderick, Arthur A. Stone

Development and evaluation of the PI-G: a three-scale measure based on the German translation of the PROMIS® pain interference item bank

Erik Farin, Michaela Nagl, Lukas Gramm, Katja Heyduck, Manuela Glattacker

The psychosocial impact of dental aesthetics questionnaire—translation and cross-cultural validation in Croatia

• Brief Communication

Stjepan Spalj, Vlatka Lajnert, Luida Ivankovic

Validating the Migraine-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire v2.1 (MSQ) in Italian inpatients with chronic migraine with a history of medication overuse

• Brief Communication

Alberto Raggi, Ambra Mara Giovannetti, Silvia Schiavolin, Matilde Leonardi, Gennaro Bussone, Licia Grazzi, Susanna Usai, Marcella Curone, Paola Di Fiore, Domenico D’Amico

Validation of a Quality of Life Questionnaire for Bronchiectasis: psychometric analyses of the Spanish QOL-B-V3.0

Casilda Olveira, Gabriel Olveira, Francisco Espildora, Rosa-Maria Giron, Gerard Muñoz, Alexandra L. Quittner, Miguel-Angel Martinez-Garcia

Item reduction of the Wisconsin Upper Respiratory Symptom Survey (WURSS-21) leads to the WURSS-11

• Brief Communication

Chidi N. Obasi, Roger L. Brown, Bruce P. Barrett

Is the Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire-Short Form (Q-LES-Q-SF) a unidimensional or bidimensional instrument?

• Commentary

Dejan Stevanovic

Development and testing of item response theory-based item banks and short forms for eye, skin and lung problems in sarcoidosis

David E. Victorson, Seung Choi, Marc A. Judson, David Cella

Validation and comparison of 15-D and EQ-5D-5L instruments in a Spanish Parkinson’s disease population sample

Miguel Ángel García-Gordillo, Borja del Pozo-Cruz, José Carmelo Adsuar, Fernando Ignacio Sánchez-Martínez, José María Abellán-Perpiñán

Measurement properties of the Adolescent Quality of Life Mental Health Scale (AQOL-MHS)

Ligia M. Chavez, Rafael Ramirez, Pedro Garcia, Glorisa Canino, Karen Mir, Nyrma Ortiz, Leo S. Morales

How do life-course trajectories of socioeconomic position affect quality of life in patients with diabetes mellitus?

Hye Ah Lee, Ko Eun Lee, Yool Won Jeong, Jaeseon Ryu, Minkyung Kim, Jung Won Min, Young Sun Hong, Kyunghee Jung-Choi, Hyesook Park

Quality of life of leprosy sequelae patients living in a former leprosarium under home care: univariate analysis

• Brief Communication

Leonardo Cançado Monteiro Savassi, Tatiana Roberta Sarubi Bogutchi, Anna Carolina Lustosa Lima, Celina Maria Modena

A cross-sectional study of psychological complaints and quality of life in severely injured patients

C. C. H. M. van Delft-Schreurs, J. J. M. van Bergen, P. van de Sande, M. H. J. Verhofstad, J. de Vries, M. A. C. de Jongh

Health-related quality of life during adjuvant radiotherapy in breast cancer

Sinikka Luutonen, Harri Sintonen, Teija Stormi, Eeva Salminen

The impact of weight loss on health-related quality-of-life: implications for cost-effectiveness analyses

Amy E. Rothberg, Laura N. McEwen, Andrew T. Kraftson, Gina M. Neshewat, Christine E. Fowler, Charles F. Burant, William H. Herman

Gender-specific quality of life after cancer in young adulthood: a comparison with the general population

Kristina Geue, Annekathrin Sender, Ricarda Schmidt, Diana Richter, Andreas Hinz, Thomas Schulte, Elmar Brähler, Yve Stöbel-Richter

Health-related quality of life among breast, prostate, and colorectal cancer patients with end-stage disease

Niilo Färkkilä, Saku Torvinen, Risto P. Roine, Harri Sintonen, Juha Hänninen, Kimmo Taari, Tiina Saarto

Masticatory factors as predictors of oral health-related quality of life among elderly people in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

Kun-Jung Hsu, Huey-Er Lee, Yi-Min Wu, Shou-Jen Lan, Shun-Te Huang, Yea-Yin Yen

Erratum to: Predictors of psychological well-being and stress among Jordanian menopausal women

• Erratum

Rania Y. Abdelrahman, Lubna A. Abushaikha, Mohammad A. al-Motlaq

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

• Erratum

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