1 quality of life in hodgkin lymphoma

... which influence HRQoL remain to be determined Methods: We conducted a prospective study on a cohort of 204 Hodgkin and non -Hodgkin lymphoma survivors who remained disease-free years after undergoing ... disturbances occurring during this time period Methods Eligibility criteria were as follows: advanced Hodgkin? ??s lymphoma treated with a first line therapy consisting of a minimum of cycles of ABVD or ... with those of Smith and colleagues who described chronic forms of PTSD in NHL [32] Page 15 of 17 Decreases in HRQoL are of major concern during the post-cancer period of lymphoma patients Indeed,

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... should be kept in mind that the point of focus of this study is the identification of predictors modifying the wo rsening (aggravation) of HRQoL at any time point before or after VABB. In an attempt ... short-term pain. Commenting on late effects, a striking finding is that long-term pain (EQ-5D pain/discomfort and SF-36 Bodily Pain dimensions) seemed rather idiosyncratic, since none of the predictors ... future studies stratifying results would be of inter- est so as to gain more detailed insight into the phenomenon of long-term pain. Further commenting on late effects, once again mastal- gia emerged

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... requirement in accordance with the WHO definition of health and well-being [3] Pediatric quality of life studies that investigate the individuals’ perceptions of their well-being in a multidimensional ... psychosocial quality of life irrespective of the severity of heart disease [23] This recent result affirms previous findings of studies focusing on various dimensions of quality of life [21,24-27] ... field of research in pediatric cardiology internationally, and meeting professional requirements in a pediatric population brings more difficulty than in adults: identifying the relevant quality -of- life

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... provides information a bout the relative importance of self-reported physical and mental health status and the five life domains in explaining global QOL in Table 2 Joint and marginal distributions of ... mediated by one of the life domains. 2 Sum of all indirect effects for physical and mental health status explaining global quality of life. Sawatzky et al. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, ... researchers and providers increasingly recognize the importance of obtaining information about adoles- cents’ perspectives of their quality of life (QOL) [1-10]. Several instruments have been developed

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... initial TOI was a clini- cally meaningful predictor of follow-up TOI, with a 1 SD increase (12.7 points) in initial TOI scores corresponding to a 6.4 point increase in follow-up TOI scores. Initial ... of follow-up SWB explaining a total of 39.3% of the variance (Table 4), including initial SWB, three sociodemographic indicators (gender, race/ethnic- Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008, ... colostomy at the time of the interviews were not asked these bowel-related items, including 131 (12.1%) of 1,079 patients in the ini- tial survey and 54 (9.5%) of 568 patients in the follow-up survey.

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... responsiveness of generic and specific quality -of- life instru- ments. J Clin Epidemiol 2003, 56(1):52-60. 39. Coons SJ, Rao S, Keininger DL, Hays RD: A comparative review of generic quality -of- life instruments. ... VFQ-25 scales in any of the models. Comparing change in individual VFQ-25 items among the five ETDRS change groups Mean change in each individual item of the VFQ-25 was computed for each of the five ... targets of future research and clinical intervention. Table 4: ANCOVAs comparing SF-36 change scores among groups of patients differing in visual acuity change from baseline to month 18† Change in

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... quality of life in adults 65 years and older. Obesity Res 2004, 12:69-76. 50. Borowiak E, Kostka T: Predictors of quality of life in older peo- ple living at home and in institutions. Aging Clin Exp ... perception of physical health in male subjects, except in the realm of physical functioning, a finding also borne out by other authors [36,41-45]. However, assessment of quality of life in the female ... Accordingly, evaluation of the quality of life has become a focus of interest not only in population studies, but also in clinical medicine [17], particularly in patients suffering with chronic illnesses

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... need for integration of quality of life impact into clinical outcome evaluations in the future especially in developing countries like India where it is often ignored. The possibility of further ... provide information on a wide range of potentially relevant issues) and allows easy administration of general instructions in any lan- guage. It has the inherent advantage of determining and rating ... 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 (PQOL) in India.

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... English and 3 in Chinese [27,29,33]. The included studies were carried out within different countries: 3 in China [27-29]; 1 in both China and southern Thailand [33]; 2 in India [21,35]; 2 in Turkey ... generic instruments [1,4]. One spe- cial category of generic HRQL instruments assesses "pref- erences" for certain health states [2]. These instruments summarize quality of life into a single ... instruments. Results of the included studies were summarized qualitatively. Results: Twelve original studies met our criteria for inclusion. A wide range of quality of life instruments were involved, and

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... evaluate the severity of psoriatic lesions by assessing the extent of skin involvement, erythema, plaque thickness, and degree of scaling [31] The PASI score can vary in increments of 0.1 units from ... agents) with the goal of preventing or slowing permanent structural joint damage and longterm disability in IRD is the accurate monitoring of HRQL in daily practice and in clinical trials [37] The ... planning of the healthcare services should take these findings into account by maintaining the focus on impairment and physical function, but also focusing on the mental and social consequences of

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... outcomes in older adults by: 1) maintaining or augmenting physiological functions (e.g., prevention of sarcopenia); 2) reducing the likelihood of acquiring additional chronic conditions; 3) delaying ... contributing to the substantial increase in the incidence of chronic conditions in the latter part of the 20th century Thus, physical activity can prevent the onset of chronic conditions Our findings ... writing and editing of multiple drafts CAM was involved in the design, assisted in the interpretation of results and edited multiple drafts of the manuscript All authors read and approved the final

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... abdominal pain is the typical dyspepsia symptom, internal consistency was only moderate in the Abdominal pain domain of the GSRS This generally low internal consistency in the Abdominal pain domain ... difficulty of measuring this often fluctuating symptom, as well as the fact that the GSRS Abdominal pain domain contains only two items In previous international studies conducted in patients ... I: Handling missing data in quality of life questionnaires: Experience from clinical trials 6th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research, Barcelona, Spain 1999

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... the following guidelines For continuous variables measured on a 0–100 scale (including coping), we assume that a point difference is of some, and a 10 point difference of substantial clinical relevance, ... what continuous variables should be entered linearly or non-linearly (using splines with four knots) in the models Single imputations used the independent variables in the regression in question, ... Scale; SF: Social Function; Coping: Confrontive coping, Normalising Optimistic Coping, Combined Emotive coping; Burden: Perception of living with angina pectoris Page of 12 (page number not for citation

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... may affect certain domains of QoL in a patient with chronic disease [23] Mode of administration of the questionnaire by an investigator negatively influences certain dimensions of SF-36 via the ... are in English, Arab countries are lagging considerably behind in this domain, not only in the development of tools, but also in terms of translation of existing material [12][17][32] The SF-36 ... means of administration of SF-36, marital status, LCI-M, financial status, occurrence of a grave event during the past year, Global quality of life assessment and type of health problem Because of

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... iterative, starting with transcription of the interviews, highlighting pointers on the interview transcripts, writing memos, linking themes together, arriving at core themes, further integration of categories ... representation of these factors across each of the domains in turn represents level of impact upon HRQoL Conclusion The present study marks a starting point in clarifying and describing HRQoL domains in ... quality of life (HRQoL) measurement in schizophrenia emerged following widespread deinstitutionalisation in the 1950's [8,9] Initial interest was aimed at assessing the impact of the move of patients

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... quality of life MCID: Minimal clinically important difference PCRQ: Perceived Control of Rhinitis Questionnaire ROM-31: 31-item Rhinosinusitis Outcome Measure RQLQ: Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life ... evidence sup- porting an SEM-based criterion for identifying meaningful intra-individual changes in health-related quality of life. J Clin Epidemiol 1999, 52:861-873. 17. Linder JA, Singer DE, Ancker ... form of longitudinal validity [28,29]. When dealing with the measurement of HRQL, this distinction becomes even less clear. Bearing these lim- itations in mind, the longitudinal characteristics of

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... Questionnaire Quality of Life in Depression Scale Quality of Life Index Quality of Life Interview Severe Mental Illness Standard gamble Time tradeoff World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment ... study for purposes of review EuroQoL visual analog scale Illness Intrusiveness Rating Scale Lancashire Quality of Life Profile Lehman Quality of Life Interview Longitudinal Interval Follow-up ... sub-set of patients Younger age of onset of BD predicts Q-LES-Q scores Onset of BD determined retrospectively No significant differences in SF-36 domain scores according to mode of administration (inperson

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... health. Because one goal of the over-all LIDO study was to com- pare Quality of Life (QOL) instruments, several of them were administered. These included the Quality of Life in Depression Scale (QLDS) ... ment of quality of life in depression. Health Policy 1992, 22:307-319. 22. McKenna SP, Hunt SM: A new measure of quality of life in depression: Testing the reliability and construct validity of ... is an index ranging from 0 to 34, with a higher score indicating worse QOL. The WHOQOL Bref adopts the following definition of health-related QOL: "the value assigned to duration of life

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... somewhat puzzling results are partly in line with the findings of Ryd- ström et al [42], who showed that Swedish children with asthma reported less impairment of quality of life in the domain of emotions ... emotional HRQL. In contrast to gastro-intestinal symptoms, the presence of food-induced breathing difficulties seems to improve two aspects of HRQL, i.e. the psychosocial well-being for the child ... Research, Karolinska Institutet, S-171 77 Solna, Sweden, 2 Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society, Division of Nursing, 23300, Karolinska Institutet, S-141 83 Huddinge, Sweden,

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... improvements in global quality of life and physical functioning in the group of women who had taken part in a cardiovascular training program Delgado-Sanz et al. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... of papers in PsycINFO and PubMed, probably reflecting a more multidisciplinary approach. This would also seem to apply to Spain. Almost half the studies included in this review were indexed in ... area of great interest for quantifying the impact of breast cancer on our society in terms of HRQL. How- ever, no longitudinal study was identified that was cap- able of eva luating trends in HRQL

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