abstract：BACKGROUND:Bone metastases are a common painful and debilitating consequence of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CPRC). Bone pain may predict patients' prognosis and there is a need to further explore CRPC patients' experiences of bone pain in the overall context of disease pathology. Due to the subjective nature ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Gater A,Abetz-Webb L,Battersby C,Parasuraman B,McIntosh S,Nathan F,Piault EC

更新日期：2011-10-12 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: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：BACKGROUND:Restless legs syndrome (RLS) is a chronic disorder with substantial impact on quality of life similar to that seen in diabetes mellitus or osteoarthritis. Little is known about the psychological characteristics of RLS patients although psychological factors may contribute to unfavourable treatment outcome. ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Scholz H,Benes H,Happe S,Bengel J,Kohnen R,Hornyak M

更新日期：2011-09-20 00:00:00

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：INTRODUCTION:Within an ongoing project of the EORTC Quality of Life Group, we are developing computerized adaptive test (CAT) measures for the QLQ-C30 scales. These new CAT measures are conceptualised to reflect the same constructs as the QLQ-C30 scales. Accordingly, the Fatigue-CAT is intended to capture physical and ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Giesinger JM,Aa Petersen M,Groenvold M,Aaronson NK,Arraras JI,Conroy T,Gamper EM,Kemmler G,King MT,Oberguggenberger AS,Velikova G,Young T,Holzner B,European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Grou

更新日期：2011-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Breast cancer is one of the oncological diseases in which health-related quality of life (HRQL) has been most studied. This is mainly due to its high incidence and survival. This paper seeks to: review published research into HRQL among women with breast cancer in Spain; analyse the characteristics of these ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Delgado-Sanz MC,García-Mendizábal MJ,Pollán M,Forjaz MJ,López-Abente G,Aragonés N,Pérez-Gómez B

更新日期：2011-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Patient-reported outcomes are increasingly seen as complementary to biomedical measures. However, their prognostic importance has yet to be established, particularly in female long-term myocardial infarction (MI) survivors. We aimed to determine whether 10-year survival in older women after MI relates to pat...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Norekvål TM,Fridlund B,Rokne B,Segadal L,Wentzel-Larsen T,Nordrehaug JE

更新日期：2010-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is a growing interest to use health status or disease control questionnaires in routine clinical practice. However, the validity of most questionnaires is established using techniques developed for group level validation. This study examines a new method, using patient interviews, to validate a short h...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Kocks JW,Kerstjens HA,Snijders SL,de Vos B,Biermann JJ,van Hengel P,Strijbos JH,Bosveld HE,van der Molen T

更新日期：2010-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Frailty remains an elusive concept despite many efforts to define and measure it. The difficulty in translating the clinical profile of frail elderly people into a quantifiable assessment tool is due to the complex and heterogeneous nature of their health problems. Viewing frailty as a 'latent vulnerability'...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Kamaruzzaman S,Ploubidis GB,Fletcher A,Ebrahim S

更新日期：2010-10-28 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:Self-reported limitations in physical function often have only weak associations with measured performance on physical tests, suggesting that factors other than performance commonly influence self-reports. We tested if personal or health characteristics influenced self-reported limitations in three tasks, co...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Louie GH,Ward MM

更新日期：2010-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We previously reported that changes of 6-17 percent in the EORTC QLQ-C30 scores are regarded important by patients with multiple myeloma and thus may be considered as Minimal Important Differences (MIDs). However, patients' internal standard of measurement may have changed over time (response shift, RS). In ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Kvam AK,Wisløff F,Fayers PM

更新日期：2010-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is no disease-specific instrument to assess health-related quality of life (HRQL) in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). METHODS:Patients' perspectives were collected to develop domains and items for an IPF-specific HRQL instrument. We used item variance and Rasch analysis to construct ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Swigris JJ,Wilson SR,Green KE,Sprunger DB,Brown KK,Wamboldt FS

更新日期：2010-07-31 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: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 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:Very little is known about the quality of life of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV co-infected patients. In this study in Ethiopia, we compared the quality of life HIV positive patients with and without TB. METHODS:A cross sectional study was conducted from February to April, 2009 in selected hospitals in Oromiya ...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Deribew A,Tesfaye M,Hailmichael Y,Negussu N,Daba S,Wogi A,Belachew T,Apers L,Colebunders R

更新日期：2009-12-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:After long term disease free follow up (FUp) patients reconsider quality of life (QOL) outcomes. Aim of this study is assess QoL in prostate cancer patients who are disease-free at least 5 years after radical prostatectomy (RP). METHODS:367 patients treated with RP for clinically localized pCa, without bioc...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Gacci M,Simonato A,Masieri L,Gore JL,Lanciotti M,Mantella A,Rossetti MA,Serni S,Varca V,Romagnoli A,Ambruosi C,Venzano F,Esposito M,Montanaro T,Carmignani G,Carini M

更新日期：2009-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several instruments are available to assess children's health-related quality of life (HRQoL) based on self reports as well as proxy reports from parents. Previous studies have found only low-to-moderate agreement between self and proxy reports, but few studies have explicitly compared the psychometric quali...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Erhart M,Ellert U,Kurth BM,Ravens-Sieberer U

更新日期：2009-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) is a debilitating condition of unknown etiology and no definitive pharmacotherapy. Patients are usually prescribed symptomatic treatment or self-medicate. We evaluated prescription and non-prescription drug use among persons with CFS in Georgia and compared it to that in non-fa...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Boneva RS,Lin JM,Maloney EM,Jones JF,Reeves WC

更新日期：2009-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is limited data examining the association between cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) and health related quality of life (HRQOL) in healthy young adults. We examined the association between CRF and the HRQOL Physical Component Summary (PCS) and Mental Component Summary (MCS) scores in apparently healthy ma...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Sloan RA,Sawada SS,Martin CK,Church T,Blair SN

更新日期：2009-05-28 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To assess the health related quality of life of patients with primary Sjögren's Syndrome (PSS) in a large US sample. METHODS:Questionnaires were mailed to 547 patients with a confirmed diagnosis of PSS (PhysR-PSS) and all active members of the Sjögren's Syndrome Foundation USA (SSF-PSS), half of whom identif...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Segal B,Bowman SJ,Fox PC,Vivino FB,Murukutla N,Brodscholl J,Ogale S,McLean L

更新日期：2009-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Treatment objectives for dyspepsia include improvements in both symptoms and health-related quality of life (HRQoL). There is a lack of disease-specific instruments measuring HRQoL in South East Asian dyspeptics. OBJECTIVES:To validate English and locally translated version of the Short-Form Nepean Dyspepsi...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Mahadeva S,Wee HL,Goh KL,Thumboo J

更新日期：2009-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The 14-item Treatment Satisfaction Questionnaire for Medication (TSQM) Version 1.4 is a reliable and valid instrument to assess patients' satisfaction with medication, providing scores on four scales--side effects, effectiveness, convenience and global satisfaction. In naturalistic studies, administering the...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Bharmal M,Payne K,Atkinson MJ,Desrosiers MP,Morisky DE,Gemmen E

更新日期：2009-04-27 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:Medical students gain a particular perspective on health problems during their medical education. This article describes how medical students value 10 hypothetical health states using the EQ-5D compared to the general population. METHODS:Based on a sample of 161 medical students (male: 41%) we compared valu...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Barbist MT,Renn D,Noisternig B,Rumpold G,Höfer S

更新日期：2008-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cerebral palsy (CP) patients have motor limitations that can affect functionality and abilities for activities of daily living (ADL). Health related quality of life and health status instruments validated to be applied to these patients do not directly approach the concepts of functionality or ADL. The Child...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Morales NM,Funayama CA,Rangel VO,Frontarolli AC,Araújo RR,Pinto RM,Rezende CH,Silva CH

更新日期：2008-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given the postulated advantages of mother generated index (MGI) in incorporating the patients' viewpoint and in the absence of a validated India specific postpartum quality of life assessment tool we proposed to evaluate the utility of an adapted Mother-Generated-Index in assessing postpartum quality of life...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Nagpal J,Dhar RS,Sinha S,Bhargava V,Sachdeva A,Bhartia A

更新日期：2008-12-02 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:In the absence of a French health-related quality of life (QOL) instrument for renal transplant recipients (RTR), we developed a self-administered questionnaire: the ReTransQol (RTQ). METHODS:This questionnaire was developed using classical methodology in the following three phases over a two-year period: I...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Gentile S,Jouve E,Dussol B,Moal V,Berland Y,Sambuc R

更新日期：2008-10-13 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:The West-Haven Multidimensional Pain Inventory (MPI) can be used to describe behavioural and psychosocial consequences of long-term pain but little is known about how MPI items and MPI subgroups relate to goals that patients find important in rehabilitation. Life satisfaction measured by the LiSat-11 checkli...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Silvemark AJ,Källmén H,Portala K,Molander C

更新日期：2008-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ulcerative colitis disease activity is determined by measuring symptoms and signs. Our aim was to determine which symptom domains are frequent and responsive to change in the evaluation of disease activity, which are those defined by three criteria: 1) they occur frequently during flares; 2) they improve dur...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Joyce JC,Waljee AK,Khan T,Wren PA,Dave M,Zimmermann EM,Wang S,Zhu J,Higgins PD

更新日期：2008-09-20 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 article describes the development and validation of a self-reported questionnaire, the KQoL-26, that is based on the views of patients with a suspected ligamentous or meniscal injury of the knee that assesses the impact of their knee problem on the quality of their lives. METHODS:Patient interviews and...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Garratt AM,Brealey S,Robling M,Atwell C,Russell I,Gillespie W,King D,DAMASK Trial Team.

更新日期：2008-07-10 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:Premature ejaculation (PE) is a common sexual dysfunction among men which affects men and their partners. Little qualitative data are available to characterize the impact of PE on men and their partners about ejaculatory control, sexual satisfaction, emotional distress and relationships. The objective of thi...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Revicki D,Howard K,Hanlon J,Mannix S,Greene A,Rothman M

更新日期：2008-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The EQ-5D was used to compare burden experienced by respondents with diabetes and those at risk for diabetes. METHODS:A survey including the EQ-5D was mailed to individuals with self-reported diabetes, as well as those without diabetes but with the following risk factors (RFs): (1) abdominal obesity, (2) bo...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Grandy S,Fox KM

更新日期：2008-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is variation in the number of response alternatives used within health-related questionnaires. This study compared a four-and a five-point scale version of the Norwegian Function Assessment Scale (NFAS) by evaluating data quality, internal consistency and validity. METHODS:All inhabitants in seven bir...

journal_title：Health and quality of life outcomes

authors： Østerås N,Gulbrandsen P,Garratt A,Benth JS,Dahl FA,Natvig B,Brage S

更新日期：2008-02-15 00:00:00