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... Assessments of professional quality of life were made with the Professional Quality of Life Scale (ProQOL) [16], which is a validated development of the Compassion Fatigue Test [17] ProQOL is a ... (BO) and Compassion Fatigue (CF) in the ProQOL in a binary logistic regression model using a forward stepwise method (Wald) In the final model, including only variables significantly contributing ... significant, length of psychiatric nursing experience (P = 028 , HR = 1.76, CI 95% 1.06–2.90) and scores on the CS (P = 027 , HR = 90, CI 95% 81– 99) In this investigation of nursing staff working in a high...

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... indicate worse quality of life WHOQOL-Bref (WHOQOL Group, 1995, 1996) QOL: Rate is a 5-point scale rating quality of life All other scores on 0–100 scale: Overall Quality of Life (QOL: Rate), and ... one goal of the over-all LIDO study was to compare Quality of Life (QOL) instruments, several of them were administered These included the Quality of Life in Depression Scale (QLDS) [21,22] and ... quality of life over a 6-week period [10] Here, we expand on these earlier findings by examining a wider range of health status and quality of life measures as well as examining synchrony of change...

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... quality of life In the face of impaired physical and mental functioning, perceived social handicap stands in the way of realizing quality of life Success in improving physical and social functioning ... mental health and quality of life (healthy ageing) Multi-disciplinary collaboration of research aimed at understanding the ageing and health transition of Singaporean older adults Goal to help formulate ... improve quality of geriatric care, assisted living and long-term care, designs for housing, built environment and transportation, and promotion of ‘active ageing’ Population ageing in Singapore...

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... schooling, income, work status, place of residence and number of chronic conditions component of quality of life, and smokers showed poorer quality of life than never-smokers The results of the ... Kromhout D Smoking Cessation and quality of life: the effect of amount of smoking and time since quitting Prev Med 2001; 33(6):653-60 DOI:10.1006/pmed.2001.0941 17 Peixoto SV, Firmo JOA, Lima-Costa ... risk and promotes the prevention and control of most chronic diseases.4,25 Excess consumption of alcohol increases the risk of several diseases and is associated with increased risk of injuries and...

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... enrolment and obtaining informed consent, an explanation of the handling of the QL-recorder to participating patients, interpretation and use of results during the consultation Training sessions ... M: Interpretation of quality of life scores from the St George's Respiratory Questionnaire Eur Respir J 2 002, 19:405-413 Higginson IJ, Carr AJ: Measuring quality of life: Using quality of life ... physicians in handling the electronic equipment and interpreting HRQoL scores, and in effi- What barriers may hinder wider application of this approach? Methods Setting This study is part of a primary...

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... collection and collation, data analysis, writing and editing of the manuscript CM was involved in the conception and design of the study, as well as data analysis and writing and editing of the manuscript ... activity A recent review of exercise intervention studies in persons with MS, found Figure Quality of life scores in people with multiple sclerosis Quality of life scores in people with multiple ... Kollegger H, Kristoferitsch W, Zeitlhofer J: Factors influencing quality of life in multiple sclerosis patients: disability, depressive mood, fatigue and sleep quality Acta Neurol Scand 2004, 110(1):6-13...

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... clearer insights into its measurement properties and direct eventual revisions Abbreviations KINDL: German questionnaire for measuring quality of life in children and adolescents; QOL: quality of life; ... components of children and adolescents QOL and well-being This structure allows it to be used for QOL assessments in divers groups of healthy children and adolescents, but also for quality of life ... S, Lund T: Assessing health-related quality of life in adolescents: some psychometric properties of the first Norwegian version of KINDL® Scand J Caring Sci 2005, 19: 102- 09 Page of (page number...

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... shown here) *p < 05 obtain information about tobacco dependence, drug and health-related behavior, and quality of life in adolescents in grades to 12 in schools in the province of British Columbia ... Indirect effect of physical or mental health status on global quality of life as mediated by one of the life domains Sum of all indirect effects for physical and mental health status explaining ... Adolescent quality of life, part II: initial validation of a new instrument J Adolesc 2 002, 25:287-300 12 Bradford R, Rutherford DL, John A: Quality of life in young people: ratings and factor...

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... used to pay the printing of questionnaires, mailing costs, data management and the English translation of the draft References Spiker BN: Quality of life and phamarcoeconomics in clinical trials ... NY; 1978 Jofre R, Lopez-Gomez JM, Valderrabano F: Quality of life for patients groups Kidney international 2000, 57(suppl):121-130 Gentile S: Principal determinants of quality of life Soins 2004, ... health-related quality of life in renal transplant and hemodialysis patients using the SF-36 health survey Urology 2000, 56:201-206 Tomasz W, Piotr S: A trial of objective comparison of quality of life...

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... of search (quality of life and distress and urinary incontinence) and search (quality of life and bother and urinary incontinence) Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality ... Non-surgical intervention for SUI = 27 Include = 21 Figure incontinence) Results of search (quality of life and distress and urinary incontinence) and search (quality of life and bother and urinary ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:8 Urinary incontinence (UI) is defined by the International Continence Society as the "complaint of any involuntary leakage of urine" [1] Urinary incontinence...

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... impressive gains in self-efficacy and QOL outcomes in a sample of older adults Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:10 Although our findings offer ... physical activity and QOL, as well as an expanded QOL model including both health status indicators and global QOL Given that the life expectancy of many countries continues to increase, a more ... dwelling adults aged 50 and older via flyers and electronic newsletters advertising participation in a study of physical activity beliefs A total of 349 individuals expressed initial interest and...

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... health related quality of life of patients with fibromyalgia as related to the quality of life of patients in other chronic conditions is presented in Table Results of quality of life of patients ... pain and long term false straining of the muscles eventually can result in chronification of pain In accordance with the hypothesis of Hasenbring, Van Houdenhoven suggested that, especially in ... contribution in drafting the manuscript RJS has been involved in the analysis and interpretation of the data in combination with drafting the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript...

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... GSRS, Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale; QOLRAD, Quality of Life in Reflux and Dyspepsia questionnaire Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... validation of the German translation of the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale (GSRS) and Quality of Life in Reflux and Dyspepsia (QOLRAD) questionnaire in patients with reflux disease Health Qual Life ... Wiklund I: [Psychometric validation of translation to Spanish of the gastrointestinal symptoms rating scale (GSRS) and quality of life in reflux and dyspepsia (QOLRAD) in patients with gastroesophageal...

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... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, 6:15 Introduction In asthma research, there is growing evidence indicating that traditional outcomes, such as respiratory symptoms and pulmonary ... registries of inhabitants of these areas Health examinations were conducted at the eight local centres at baseline in 1991 and at follow-up in 2 002 Subjects answered an interview-based standardised ... of missing data for each item of the two questionnaires We then assessed the distributions of the AQLQ and SF-36 domain scores graphically and by looking at skewness and kurtosis Since AQLQ and...

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... punctured into the disc and an intraoperative discogram is performed with a mixture of ml of contrast media and ml of indigo carmine The indigo carmine stains the pathologic nucleus and the annular ... exiting nerve root and this avoids the risk of inducing spinal instability [2,3,15] Also the spinal canal is not violated and therefore there is less epidural bleeding and epidural scarring However, ... discectomy is a safe and efficacious technique to relieve symptoms of herniated discs and this improvement in back pain and leg symptoms translates to improvement in quality of life It has the advantage...

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... being referred to as quality of life measures when they actually measure quality of health not quality of life " because I think that health is part of our life The concept of quality of life includes ... overall quality of life but also elements of quality of life such as health and functioning as well as symptom relief and psychological and spiritual well-being Health and Quality of Life Outcomes: ... health-related quality of life If so, then the titles "Health-related quality of life outcomes" and Health and quality of life" are closer to the journal's intent James W Varni, Ph.D Professor of Psychiatry,...

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... pre-morbid health status [6,7] Quality of life studies are often difficult to compare, since different intensive care populations have been studied and a variety of quality of life measures have been ... for age and SAPS II and median values for *LOS and **IPPV days (hours/24) Comparison of medical and surgical ICU patients, and of ICU patients with increasing and patients with decreasing summarized ... Health and Physical Functioning scores decreased in cardiovascular patients and increased in respiratory and neurological patients All categories show increases in Vitality scores and reductions in...

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... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, Introduction Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality in industrialized and developing countries ... (health-related quality of life) and also important clinical goals such as prevention of disease progression and minimization of symptoms [11] Currently, however, there are no instruments that incorporate ... between now and 2015 that is independent from the success of smoking cessation campaigns [3] In recent years, a great deal of attention has been paid to developing and validating quality of life questionnaires...

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... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2003, Introduction Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) outcome measures are being increasingly used in research trials, but less so in routine clinical ... Since health is a function of both length of life and quality of life, the QALY (Quality- adjusted life year) has been developed in an attempt to combine the value of these attributes into a single ... C, Barofsky I and and the Clinical Significance Consensus Meeting Group Group vs individual approaches to understanding the clinical significance of differences or changes in quality of life Mayo...

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... quality of the data including staff training, receipt of the data by vendor staff, data entry, decision rules, quality monitoring of data entry by vendor staff, and preparation and submission of data ... probability of collecting high quality data when utilizing multiple survey vendors in obtaining health outcomes information Appendix A project reporting – establishes uniform reporting and definitions ... Survey were standardization and simplicity Standardization In addition to using a standardized survey administration protocol and instrument to minimize the potential for systematic inter-vendor...

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