Quality of Life Research

The ethics of providing a balanced presentation of facts

• Response

Miri Cohen

Concept Analysis of the Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) and the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF)

Carole A. Tucker, Alarcos Cieza, Anne W. Riley, Gerold Stucki, Jin Shei Lai, T. Bedirhan Ustun, Nenad Kostanjsek, William Riley, David Cella, Christopher B. Forrest

Conceptualizing and prioritizing clinical trial outcomes from the perspectives of people with Parkinson’s disease versus health care professionals: a concept mapping study

Catharina Sjödahl Hammarlund, Maria H. Nilsson, Markus Idvall, Scott R. Rosas, Peter Hagell

Assessing spiritual well-being in residents of nursing homes for older people using the FACIT-Sp-12: a cognitive interviewing study

Sue Hall, Sharon Beatty

Getting serious about test–retest reliability: a critique of retest research and some recommendations

Denise F. Polit

Anchoring vignettes for health comparisons: an analysis of response consistency

Nicole Au, Paula K. Lorgelly

Dutch–Flemish translation of 17 item banks from the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS)

C. B. Terwee, L. D. Roorda, H. C. W. de Vet, J. Dekker, R. Westhovens, J. van Leeuwen, D. Cella, H. Correia, B. Arnold, B. Perez, M. Boers

An investigation into the construct validity of the Carer Experience Scale (CES)

Ilias Goranitis, Joanna Coast, Hareth Al-Janabi

An evaluation of the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire using Rasch analysis

Theresa Munyombwe, Stefan Höfer, Donna Fitzsimons, David R. Thompson, Deidre Lane, Karen Smith, Felicity Astin

Use of cognitive interviews in the development of the PLUS-M item bank

Sara J. Morgan, Dagmar Amtmann, Daniel C. Abrahamson, Andre J. Kajlich, Brian J. Hafner

Development and psychometric properties of the Maastricht Personal Autonomy Questionnaire (MPAQ) in older adults with a chronic physical illness

Godelief M. J. Mars, Jacques Th. M. van Eijk, Marcel W. M. Post, Ireen M. Proot, Ilse Mesters, Gertrudis I. J. M. Kempen

The Italian version of the Pain Beliefs and Perceptions Inventory: cross-cultural adaptation, factor analysis, reliability and validity

• Brief Communication

Marco Monticone, Simona Ferrante, Silvano Ferrari, Calogero Foti, Raffaele Mugnai, Paolo Pillastrini, Barbara Rocca, Carla Vanti

Reliability and validity of the Iranian version of the QAPACE in adolescents

• Brief Communication

Parisa Amiri, Sara Jalali-Farahani, Maryam Zarkesh, Maryam Barzin, Robabeh Kaviani, Sajad Ahmadizad

Positive and negative aspects of well-being as correlates of breast reconstruction decision

Jolanta Zycinska, Ewa Gruszczynska, Alina Choteborska

Understanding the relative importance of preserving functional abilities in Alzheimer’s disease in the United States and Germany

A. Brett Hauber, Ateesha F. Mohamed, F. Reed Johnson, Michael Cook, H. Michael Arrighi, Jing Zhang, Michael Grundman

Environmental effects on WHODAS 2.0 among patients with stroke with a focus on ICF category e120

Kwang-Hwa Chang, Yen-Nung Lin, Hua-Fang Liao, Chia-Feng Yen, Reuben Escorpizo, Tze-Hsun Yen, Tsan-Hon Liou

Factors associated with health-related quality of life in chronic leg ulceration

Wilma M. Hopman, Elizabeth G. VanDenKerkhof, Meg E. Carley, Janet L. Kuhnke, Margaret B. Harrison

The impact of concurrent granulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulating factor on quality of life in head and neck cancer patients: results of the randomized, placebo-controlled Radiation Therapy Oncology Group 9901 trial

Karen E. Hoffman, Stephanie L. Pugh, Jennifer L. James, Charles Scarantino, Benjamin Movsas, Richard K. Valicenti, Andre Fortin, JonDavid Pollock, Harold Kim, David G. Brachman, Lawrence B. Berk, Deborah Watkins Bruner, Lisa A. Kachnic

Impact of autism in adolescents on parental quality of life

Amaria Baghdadli, René Pry, Cécile Michelon, Cécile Rattaz

Depressive symptoms, health-related quality of life, and cardiac event-free survival in patients with heart failure: a mediation analysis

Kyoung Suk Lee, Terry A. Lennie, Jia-Rong Wu, Martha J. Biddle, Debra K. Moser

Health-related quality of life of children and adolescents with functional disabilities in a northern Swedish county

• Brief Communication

Erik Domellöf, Ludmilla Hedlund, Pia Ödman

Health-related quality of life in children and adolescents with celiac disease: patient-driven data from focus group interviews

Halfdan Skjerning, Ruth O. Mahony, Steffen Husby, Audrey DunnGalvin

The relationship between body mass index and health-related quality of life in urban disadvantaged children

Ciara Wynne, Catherine Comiskey, Eleanor Hollywood, Mary Brigid Quirke, Karin O’Sullivan, Sinéad McGilloway

Erratum to: Development and validation of the functional assessment of chronic illness therapy treatment satisfaction (FACIT TS) measures

• Erratum

John D. Peipert, Jennifer L. Beaumont, Rita Bode, Dave Cella, Sofia F. Garcia, Elizabeth A. Hahn