Quality of Life Research

Conceptualizing global health-related quality of life in bladder cancer

Nathan Perlis, Murray Krahn, Shabbir Alibhai, Antonio Finelli, Paul Ritvo, Karen E. Bremner, Girish Kulkarni

Assessing quality of life in patients with prostate cancer: a systematic and standardized comparison of available instruments

• Open Access

Stefanie Schmidt, Olatz Garin, Yolanda Pardo, José M. Valderas, Jordi Alonso, Pablo Rebollo, Luis Rajmil, Carlos Garcia-Forero, Montse Ferrer

Danish population-based reference data for the EORTC QLQ-C30: associations with gender, age and morbidity

Therese Juul, Morten Aagaard Petersen, Bernhard Holzner, Søren Laurberg, Peter Christensen, Mogens Grønvold

Results from several population studies show that recommended scoring methods of the SF-36 and the SF-12 may lead to incorrect conclusions and subsequent health decisions

Graeme Tucker, Robert Adams, David Wilson

Factorial structural analysis of the Spanish version of WHOQOL-BREF: an exploratory structural equation model study

Sonia Benitez-Borrego, Joan Guàrdia-Olmos, Alfonso Urzúa-Morales

Assessing quality of life in young adult cancer survivors: development of the Survivorship-Related Quality of Life scale

Crystal L. Park, Jennifer H. Wortmann, Amy E. Hale, Dalnim Cho, Thomas O. Blank

Health impact of sport and exercise in emerging adult men: a prospective study

Yves Henchoz, Stéphanie Baggio, Alexandra A. N’Goran, Joseph Studer, Stéphane Deline, Meichun Mohler-Kuo, Jean-Bernard Daeppen, Gerhard Gmel

Physical activity in relation to quality of life in newly diagnosed colon cancer patients: a 24-month follow-up

Cari Lewis, Pengcheng Xun, Ka He

Patient’s response to a simple question on recovery after hemodialysis session strongly associated with scores of comprehensive tools for quality of life and depression symptoms

Gildete Barreto Lopes, Luciana Ferreira Silva, Gustavo Behrens Pinto, Luiz Fernando Catto, Marcia Tereza Silva Martins, Margarida Maria Dantas Dutra, Antonio Alberto Lopes

Using Rasch analysis to examine the distress thermometer’s cut-off scores among a mixed group of patients with cancer

Sylvie D. Lambert, Julie F. Pallant, Kerrie Clover, Benjamin Britton, Madeleine T. King, Gregory Carter

Mixture modelling analysis of one-month disability after stroke: stroke outcomes study (SOS1)

Theresa Munyombwe, Kate M. Hill, Peter Knapp, Robert M. West

Relationship among chelator adherence, change in chelators, and quality of life in Thalassemia

Felicia L. Trachtenberg, Eric Gerstenberger, Yan Xu, Lauren Mednick, Amy Sobota, Hannah Ware, Alexis A. Thompson, Ellis J. Neufeld, Robert Yamashita

The prediction of quality of life by physical, psychological and social components of frailty in community-dwelling older people

R. J. J. Gobbens, M. A. L. M. van Assen

Impact of vertigo and dizziness on self-perceived participation and autonomy in older adults: results from the KORA-Age study

Martin Mueller, Ralf Strobl, Klaus Jahn, Birgit Linkohr, Karl Heinz Ladwig, Andreas Mielck, Eva Grill

Health-related quality of life following radical prostatectomy: long-term outcomes

Andrew G. Matthew, Shabbir M. H. Alibhai, Tal Davidson, Kristen L. Currie, Haiyan Jiang, Murray Krahn, Neil E. Fleshner, Robin Kalnin, Alyssa S. Louis, B. Joyce Davison, John Trachtenberg

The impact of new screen-detected and previously known type 2 diabetes on health-related quality of life: a population-based study in Qingdao, China

Yanlei Zhang, Jianping Sun, Zengchang Pang, Xiaoyong Wang, Weiguo Gao, Feng Ning, Jie Ren, Anil Kapur, Harri Sintonen, Qing Qiao

Patient education, upper-limb symptom perception, and quality of life among Japanese breast cancer survivors

• Brief Communication

Miyako Tsuchiya

The effects of anxiety sensitivity, pain hypervigilance, and pain catastrophizing on quality of life outcomes of patients with chronic pain: a preliminary, cross-sectional analysis

W. S. Wong, H. M. J. Lam, Y. F. Chow, P. P. Chen, H. S. Lim, Steven Wong, R. Fielding

Improving the mapping of condition-specific health-related quality of life onto SF-6D score

Yingsi Yang, M. Y. Wong, Cindy L. K. Lam, Carlos K. H. Wong

Comparison between the EQ-5D-5L and the EQ-5D-3L in patients with hepatitis B

Y. X. Jia, F. Q. Cui, L. Li, D. L. Zhang, G. M Zhang, F. Z. Wang, X. H. Gong, H. Zheng, Z. H. Wu, N. Miao, X. J. Sun, L. Zhang, J. J. Lv, F. Yang

Using WOMAC Index scores and personal characteristics to estimate Assessment of Quality of Life utility scores in people with hip and knee joint disease

Ilana N. Ackerman, Mark A. Tacey, Zanfina Ademi, Megan A. Bohensky, Danny Liew, Caroline A. Brand

A comparison of EQ-5D-3L population norms in Queensland, Australia, estimated using utility value sets from Australia, the UK and USA

• Brief Communication

Susan Clemens, Nelufa Begum, Catherine Harper, Jennifer A. Whitty, Paul A. Scuffham

Exploring psychometric properties of the SF-6D, a preference-based health-related quality of life measure, in the context of spinal cord injury

Lidia Engel, Stirling Bryan, Silvia M. A. A. Evers, Carmen D. Dirksen, Vanessa K. Noonan, David G. T. Whitehurst

Modelling utility weights for the Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL)-8D

Jeff Richardson, Kompal Sinha, Angelo Iezzi, Munir A. Khan

Cappelleri JC, Zou KH, Bushmakin AG, Alvir JMJ, Alemayehu D, Symonds T: Patient-reported outcomes, measurement, implementation and interpretation

• Book Review

Adam B. Smith