Evaluation of health status in patients with hepatitis c treated with and without interferon.

abstract：BACKGROUND:To assess QOL of patients with stroke in comparison to other groups (caregivers and CHF patients), to identify which items of QOL are more affected on each group and what is the functional profile of patients with stroke. METHODS:Consecutive stroke or congestive heart failure (CHF) patients were evaluated a...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Pinto EB,Maso I,Pereira JL,Fukuda TG,Seixas JC,Menezes DF,Cincura C,Neville IS,Jesus PA,Oliveira-Filho J

更新日期：2011-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cold climates traditionally have conferred long sleep duration in the residents in northeast China; however, modern lifestyle reduces sleep duration. In this study, we investigated social-biological factors influencing sleep duration in the adult residents in northeast China. METHODS:This study was performe...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Ren Y,Liu Y,Meng T,Liu W,Qiao Y,Gu Y,Li Y,Liu Y,Yu Y,Cheng Y

更新日期：2019-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To date, reliable and comprehensive health-related quality of life data for patients with relapsed or refractory B-precursor acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) have not been collected in clinical trials of the disease, and no utility studies have been published. The purpose of this study was to define and va...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Aristides M,Barlev A,Barber B,Gijsen M,Quinn C

更新日期：2015-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Hip disability and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (HOOS) is a frequently used patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) for assessment of hip disorders and treatment effects following hip surgery. The objective of the study was to translate and adapt the Hip disability and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (HOOS)...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Gojło MK,Paradowski PT

更新日期：2020-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Amblyopia is a visual condition that occurs in childhood. Screening programmes exist within the United Kingdom (UK) to detect amblyopia, and once detected treatment is given.Existing patient reported outcome (PRO) measures for amblyopia do not meet current recommendations for the methods adopted during their...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Carlton J

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The majority of individuals with dementia live in the community; thus, regional dementia care networks are becoming increasingly more important for the provision of care. To date, four different types of dementia care networks have been identified in Germany (stakeholder, organisation, hybrid, mission); howe...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Gräske J,Schmidt A,Schmidt S,Laporte Uribe F,Thyrian JR,Michalowsky B,Schäfer-Walkmann S,Wolf-Ostermann K

更新日期：2018-09-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The last decade has evidenced a dramatic increase in the development and utilization of pediatric health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measures in an effort to improve pediatric patient health and well-being and determine the value of healthcare services. The emerging paradigm shift toward patient-reported...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Varni JW,Limbers CA,Burwinkle TM

更新日期：2007-01-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To establish the validity and reliability of the Short Warwick Edinburgh Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMWBS) in service users with schizophrenia, depression and anxiety spectrum disorders in Singapore and estimate SWEMWBS scores across socio-demographic and the three psychiatric diagnostic groups in the sample...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Vaingankar JA,Abdin E,Chong SA,Sambasivam R,Seow E,Jeyagurunathan A,Picco L,Stewart-Brown S,Subramaniam M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous quality of life (QoL) literature in bladder cancer (BC) patients has focused on finding the preferred urinary diversion while little is known about the QoL of patients in medical oncological treatment (MOT). We performed a systematic review to assess the existing literature on QoL in patients with m...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Taarnhøj GA,Johansen C,Pappot H

更新日期：2019-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of the study was to determine whether the Persian version of the KIDSCREEN-27 has the optimal number of response category to measure health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children and adolescents. Moreover, we aimed to determine if all the items contributed adequately to their own domain. FI...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Jafari P,Bagheri Z,Safe M

更新日期：2012-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Poststroke fatigue is a persistent and distressing symptom among stroke survivors. In this study, we investigated the reliability and validity of a vertical numerical rating scale supplemented with a faces rating scale (NRS-FRS) in measuring poststroke fatigue. METHODS:The fatigue intensity of 106 individua...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Chuang LL,Lin KC,Hsu AL,Wu CY,Chang KC,Li YC,Chen YL

更新日期：2015-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：PURPOSE:Chronic kidney disease (CKD) induces frailty and worsens quality of life (QOL), even in the early stages of the disease and in young patients. However, there is a lack of knowledge about the relationship between frailty and QOL in CKD patients. Thus, we investigated this relationship in a sample of CKD patients...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Mansur HN,Colugnati FA,Grincenkov FR,Bastos MG

更新日期：2014-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While there are many published studies on HIV and functional limitations, there are few in the context of early abuse and its impact on functionality and Quality of Life (QoL) in HIV. METHODS:The present study focused on HIV in the context of childhood trauma and its impact on functionality and Quality of L...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Troeman ZC,Spies G,Cherner M,Archibald SL,Fennema-Notestine C,Theilmann RJ,Spottiswoode B,Stein DJ,Seedat S

更新日期：2011-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hereditary Angioedema (HAE), a rare genetic disease, manifests as intermittent, painful attacks of angioedema. Attacks vary in frequency and severity and include skin, abdominal and life-threatening laryngeal swellings. This study aimed to develop a patient reported outcome (PRO) tool for the assessment of H...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Bonner N,Abetz-Webb L,Renault L,Caballero T,Longhurst H,Maurer M,Christiansen S,Zuraw B,Icatibant Outcome Survey (IOS) International Executive Committee and the Hereditary Angioedema Association (HAEA) Medical Advisory Board.

更新日期：2015-07-01 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:Few epidemiologic studies have assessed health-related quality of life (HRQL) of asthma patients from a general population and it is unclear which instrument is best suitable for this purpose. We investigated the validity of the Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire (AQLQ) and the SF-36 completed by individua...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Puhan MA,Gaspoz JM,Bridevaux PO,Schindler C,Ackermann-Liebrich U,Rochat T,Gerbase MW

更新日期：2008-02-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) occurs in 1-7% of women following childbirth. While having a caesarean section (C-section) is known to be a significant risk factor for postpartum PTSD, it is currently unknown whether coexisting anaesthesia-related factors are also associated to the disorder. The aim of...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Lopez U,Meyer M,Loures V,Iselin-Chaves I,Epiney M,Kern C,Haller G

更新日期：2017-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We investigated the relationship between Body Mass Index (BMI) and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) indicated by baseline health status in elementary school children. METHODS:Data were obtained via parents whose children enrolled in an elementary school, kindergarten to fourth grade, in southern Missi...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Zhang L,Fos PJ,Johnson WD,Kamali V,Cox RG,Zuniga MA,Kittle T

更新日期：2008-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) have overlapping gastroenterological causes of recurrent chest pain, mainly due to gastroesophageal reflux (GER) and aspirin-induced gastrointestinal tract damage. These symptoms can be alleviated by proton pump inhibitors (PPIs). The study addressed whether o...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Budzyński J,Pulkowski G,Suppan K,Fabisiak J,Majer M,Kłopocka M,Galus-Pulkowska B,Wasielewski M

更新日期：2011-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing evidence for response shift phenomena in quality of life (QOL) assessment points to the necessity to reconsider both the measurement model and the application of psychometric analyses. The proposed psychometric model posits that the QOL true score is always contingent upon parameters of the appraisal pr...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Schwartz CE,Rapkin BD

更新日期：2004-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This Study Examined The Measurement Properties Of The Japanese Version Of The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Hepatocellular Carcinoma-Specific Quality of Life Questionnaire (QLQ-HCC18). METHODS:EORTC quality of life (QOL) translation guidelines were followed to create a J...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Mikoshiba N,Tateishi R,Tanaka M,Sakai T,Blazeby JM,Kokudo N,Koike K,Kazuma K

更新日期：2012-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Narcolepsy is a lifelong sleep disorder with a prevalence of between 0.03% and 0.06% and onset at around puberty. It is associated with psychiatric comorbidities and cognitive difficulties. No valid and reliable condition-specific health-related quality-of-life (HrQoL) instrument has been developed for this ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Chaplin JE,Szakács A,Hallböök T,Darin N

更新日期：2017-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A Task Force from the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) provides recommendations on how to systematically identify and appraise health state utility (HSU) weights for cost-effectiveness analyses. We applied these recommendations to conduct a systematic review (SR) to id...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Cooper JT,Lloyd A,Sanchez JJG,Sörstadius E,Briggs A,McFarlane P

更新日期：2020-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many studies have demonstrated that health related quality of life (HRQoL) improves, on average, after coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABGS). However, this average improvement may not be realized for all patients, and it is possible that there are two or more distinctive groups with different, possibl...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Le Grande MR,Elliott PC,Murphy BM,Worcester MU,Higgins RO,Ernest CS,Goble AJ

更新日期：2006-08-13 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：PURPOSE:To develop an algorithm for mapping the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Breast (FACT-B) to the 5-level EuroQoL Group's 5-dimension questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L) utility index. METHODS:A survey of 238 breast cancer patients in Singapore was conducted. Models using various regression methods with or without r...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Cheung YB,Luo N,Ng R,Lee CF

更新日期：2014-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:To investigate the impact of the gap between subjective and objective social status on health-related quality of life. METHODS:We analyzed data from 12,350 participants aged ≥ 18 years in the Korean Health Panel Survey. Health-related quality of life was measured by EuroQol-Visual analogue scale. Objective ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Choi Y,Kim JH,Park EC

更新日期：2015-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many previous studies have reported factors that contribute to health-related quality of life (HRQoL) for a single skin disease. However, little is known about generalized factors associated with HRQoL across skin diseases. The objective of this study was to investigate overall HRQoL, and to identify factors...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： He Z,Marrone G,Ou A,Liu H,Ma L,Huang Y,Li Y,Sun L,Bai Y,Liu W,Zha X,Lu C

更新日期：2020-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Participating in regular physical activity contributes to significant improvements of quality of life (QOL) in adults. Understanding psychosocial factors that influence physical activity and QOL in working adults may have important implications for future interventions aimed at improving their health. The ma...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Xiao Y,Wang H,Zhang T,Ren X

更新日期：2019-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Fatigue is frequent in rheumatic diseases. Fatigue expression and consequences may be modified by cultural differences. Our objective was to increase the understanding of the fatigue experience and characteristics among Egyptian, Muslim patients with rheumatic diseases. METHODS:Prospective monocentric quali...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Mortada M,Abdul-Sattar A,Gossec L

更新日期：2015-08-22 00:00:00