Development of the ATAQ-IPF: a tool to assess quality of life in IPF.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) have poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The association of CKD-related complications such as anemia and mineral and bone disorders (MBD) with HRQoL in pre-dialysis patients is not well-studied. As such, this study aimed to determine the association of anem...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Wee HL,Seng BJ,Lee JJ,Chong KJ,Tyagi P,Vathsala A,How P

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The original article [1] contains errors in the presentation of Table 5 & Table 6 whereby values are displayed in an incorrect format leading to potential misinterpretation. ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Lin S,Huang Y

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) - 12 was designed as a short questionnaire to assess psychiatric morbidity. Despite the fact that studies have suggested a number of competing multidimensional factor structures, it continues to be largely used as a unidimensional instrument. This may have an impact on ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Smith AB,Fallowfield LJ,Stark DP,Velikova G,Jenkins V

更新日期：2010-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The proportion of people living to a very old age is continuously increasing. One of the possibilities explored in policies and services to meet this health and societal challenge is to encourage the very old to continue living at home. This initiative is in line with the wishes of most elderly people. Howev...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Jalenques I,Rondepierre F,Rachez C,Lauron S,Guiguet-Auclair C

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Deep infiltrating endometriosis (DIE) can affect importantly patients' quality of life (QOL). The aim of this study is to evaluate the impact of the laparoscopic management of DIE on QOL after six months from treatment. METHODS:It is a prospective cohort study. In a tertiary care university hospital, betwee...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Mabrouk M,Montanari G,Guerrini M,Villa G,Solfrini S,Vicenzi C,Mignemi G,Zannoni L,Frasca C,Di Donato N,Facchini C,Del Forno S,Geraci E,Ferrini G,Raimondo D,Alvisi S,Seracchioli R

更新日期：2011-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The objectives of the study were to develop web-based Spanish and Catalan versions of the EQ-5D-Y, and to compare scores and psychometric properties with the paper version. METHODS:Web-based and paper versions of EQ-5D-Y were included in a cross-sectional study in Palafolls (Barcelona), Spain and administer...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Robles N,Rajmil L,Rodriguez-Arjona D,Azuara M,Codina F,Raat H,Ravens-Sieberer U,Herdman M

更新日期：2015-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) remains a life-threatening condition, despite modern therapies. We prospectively investigated the therapeutic health-related quality of life (HRQOL) effects of goal-oriented sequential combination therapy based on exercise capacity in patients newly diagnosed with PAH. ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Hirashiki A,Adachi S,Okumura N,Nakano Y,Shimokata S,Shimizu A,Arai H,Toba K,Murohara T,Kondo T

更新日期：2019-06-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:People suffering different types of stroke have differing demographic characteristics and survival. However, current estimates of disease burden are based on the same underlying assumptions irrespective of stroke type. We hypothesized that average Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) lost from stroke would be...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Cadilhac DA,Dewey HM,Vos T,Carter R,Thrift AG

更新日期：2010-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QOL Core Questionnaire 30 (EORTC QLQ-30) and the Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General (FACT-G) are the two most widely used measures of cancer-specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL). This study aims to assess whether the two instruments ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Iravani K,Jafari P,Akhlaghi A,Khademi B

更新日期：2018-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE:A limited number of studies have evaluated the effects of oral contraceptives (OCs) on the quality of life (QOL) of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) patients. This study aimed to compare the effects of using OCs containing levonorgestrel (LNG) and those containing desogestrel (DSG), cyproterone...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Amiri M,Nahidi F,Yarandi RB,Khalili D,Tohidi M,Tehrani FR

更新日期：2020-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Well-being Questionnaire (W-BQ) was designed to measure psychological well-being in people with diabetes. This study aimed to develop a Japanese version and a short form of the W-BQ. METHODS:A linguistic validation process produced a preliminary Japanese version of the 22-item W-BQ, which was distribute...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Riazi A,Bradley C,Barendse S,Ishii H

更新日期：2006-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Economic environmental factors represent important barriers to participation and have deleterious effects on quality of life (QOL) in persons with spinal diseases (SpD). While economic factors are anchored in the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health, their influence on QOL and p...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Gecht J,Mainz V,Boecker M,Clusmann H,Geiger MF,Tingart M,Quack V,Gauggel S,Heinemann AW,Müller CA

更新日期：2017-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Pictorial Representation of Illness and Self Measure (PRISM) has been introduced as a visual measure of suffering. We explored the validity of a revised version, the PRISM-RII, in diabetes patients as part of the annual review. METHODS:Participants were 308 adult outpatients with either type 1 or type 2...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Klis S,Vingerhoets AJ,de Wit M,Zandbelt N,Snoek FJ

更新日期：2008-11-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Preoperative anxiety is a frequent and challenging problem with deleterious effects on the development of surgical procedures and postoperative outcomes. To prevent and treat preoperative anxiety effectively, the level of anxiety of patients needs to be assessed through valid and reliable measuring instrumen...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Vergara-Romero M,Morales-Asencio JM,Morales-Fernández A,Canca-Sanchez JC,Rivas-Ruiz F,Reinaldo-Lapuerta JA

更新日期：2017-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Interpretation of scores from oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) instruments, such as the Oral Health Impact Profile (OHIP) is challenging. It was the aim of this study to determine how many oral impacts correspond to one point of the 49-item OHIP using a new approach which translates numeric probl...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Reissmann DR,Sierwald I,Heydecke G,John MT

更新日期：2013-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The McMaster framework introduced by Kirshner & Guyatt is the dominant paradigm for the development of measures of health status and health-related quality of life (HRQL). The framework defines the functions of such instruments as evaluative, predictive or discriminative. Evaluative instruments are required to be sens...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Hankins M

更新日期：2008-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is an important outcome indicator for chronic disease, and particularly in the absence of biological markers for illness, such as with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). The aims of this study were to develop and evaluate a new IBS-specific HRQOL instrument (IBS-HR-QOL). ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Lee EH,Kwon O,Hahm KB,Kim W,Kim JI,Cheung DY,Kim YJ,Kim JH,Park JJ,Joo MK

更新日期：2016-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Due to an improving prognosis, and increased knowledge of intervention effects over time, long-term well-being among prostate cancer (PC) survivors has gained increasing attention. Yet, despite a variety of available PC interventions, experts currently disagree on optimal intervention course based on surviva...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Adam S,Feller A,Rohrmann S,Arndt V

更新日期：2018-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aims to (i) evaluate the association between anxiety and depressive symptoms and health-related quality of life (HRQoL); and (ii) identify the effect modifiers of this relationship in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS:A total of 337 clinically stable COPD patient...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Balcells E,Gea J,Ferrer J,Serra I,Orozco-Levi M,de Batlle J,Rodriguez E,Benet M,Donaire-González D,Antó JM,Garcia-Aymerich J,PAC-COPD Study Group.

更新日期：2010-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients are confronted with reduced daily activities (DA) and reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL) caused by dyspnea and systemic effects such as skeletal muscle dysfunction and co-morbidities. To understand the complexity of living with COPD, it is imp...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Weldam SW,Lammers JW,Decates RL,Schuurmans MJ

更新日期：2013-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Iraq used chemical weapons extensively against the Iranians during the Iran-Iraq war (1980-1988). The aim of this study was to assess the health related quality of life (HRQOL) in people who had ophthalmologic complications due to the sulfur mustard gas exposure during the war. METHODS:The Veterans and Mart...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Mousavi B,Soroush MR,Montazeri A

更新日期：2009-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The presence of multiple chronic conditions is associated with lower health related quality of life (HRQOL). Disease severity also influences HRQOL. To analyse the effects of all possible combinations of single diseases along with their severity on HRQOL seems cumbersome. Grouping diseases and their severity...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Fortin M,Dubois MF,Hudon C,Soubhi H,Almirall J

更新日期：2007-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quality of life (QoL) is influenced in head and neck cancer (HNC) patients by a set of factors related to diagnosis, treatment and tumor impacts. The aim of this study was to evaluate the Quality of Life (QoL) changes in Head and Neck cancer (HNC) patients during treatment (radiotherapy and/or chemoradiother...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： do Nascimento Santos Lima E,Ferreira IB,Lajolo PP,Paiva CE,de Paiva Maia YC,das Graças Pena G

更新日期：2020-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Health of the Nation Outcomes Scale (HoNOS) is recommended for use by the English National Service Framework for Mental Health and by the working group on outcome indicators for severe mental illnesses to the Department of Health. It was developed to measure the health and social functioning of people wi...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Smith W,Vitoratou S,McCrone P,Patel A

更新日期：2017-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Dyspnea is frequent in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and one of the most bothersome symptoms. The recently developed Dyspnea-ALS-Scale (DALS-15) is a disease-specific patient-reported outcome to detect and quantify dyspnea. OBJECTIVES:To analyze in a case-based approach the diagnostic and clinical imp...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Vogt S,Schreiber S,Heinze HJ,Dengler R,Petri S,Vielhaber S

更新日期：2019-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:Seasonal changes in mood and behavior are common in a general population, being of relevance to public health. We wanted to analyze whether the HRQoL is associated with the seasonal changes in mood and behavior. Because the shortage of exposure to daylight or artificial bright light has been linked to the occ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Grimaldi S,Partonen T,Saarni SI,Aromaa A,Lönnqvist J

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study aims to identify factors associated with health related quality of life (HRQOL) through a comprehensive analysis of sociodemographic and clinical variables among a representative sample size of renal transplant recipients (RTR) in France. METHODS:A cross-sectional multicenter study was carried ou...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Gentile S,Beauger D,Speyer E,Jouve E,Dussol B,Jacquelinet C,Briançon S

更新日期：2013-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most studies on the effect of life events (LEs) have been carried out in convenience samples which cannot be considered representative of the general population. In addition, recent studies have observed that gender differences in the health related quality of life (HRQoL) impact of LEs might be lower than b...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Villalonga-Olives E,Rojas-Farreras S,Vilagut G,Palacio-Vieira JA,Valderas JM,Herdman M,Ferrer M,Rajmil L,Alonso J

更新日期：2010-07-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although several studies indicate the effects of diabetes type 2 on health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in female subjects, the related impact of the disease on HRQoL in their family members has rarely been the focus of the empirical research. In this study we aim to investigate associations between diabe...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Moeineslam M,Amiri P,Karimi M,Jalali-Farahani S,Shiva N,Azizi F

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although multiple language versions of health-related quality of life instruments are often used interchangeably in clinical research, the measurement equivalence of these versions (especially using alphabet vs pictogram-based languages) has rarely been assessed. We therefore investigated the measurement equ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Luo N,Chew LH,Fong KY,Koh DR,Ng SC,Yoon KH,Vasoo S,Li SC,Thumboo J

更新日期：2003-04-17 00:00:00