a quality of life issue in older males

... data and helped analyse the data MDW analysed the data and wrote the paper All authors contributed to the writing and revising of the paper All authors read and approved the final manuscript Additional ... were administered in the same order at each visit At each time point, patients were asked to mark a visual analog scale to indicate their overall quality of life and at week one and discharge ... Hospitals are to be effective in improving and promoting quality of life, it is important to try and measure quality of life Individualised quality of life tools have been used successfully in a variety...

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... potentially traumatizing One can also speculate on if one of the treatment principles, i.e making the patient treatable at a lower security level can explain the low compassion satisfaction scores at ... health among Hungarian health care staff: a questionnaire survey Int J Nurs Stud 2006, 43(3):311-318 Inoue M, Tsukano K, Muraoka M, Kaneko F, Okamura H: Psychological impact of verbal abuse and ... Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:31 role conflict, a special feature in psychiatry caring as to the amount of violence nurses are forced to handle, that this role conflict in combination...

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... transplantation produce quality of life benefits? A quantitative analysis of literature Transplantation 1997, 64:1261-1273 Fujisawa M, Ichikawa Y, Yoshiya K, Isotani S, Higuchi A, Nagano S, Arakawa ... transplant patients Am J Nephrol 2004, 24:346-351 Rebollo P, Ortega F, Baltar JM, Díaz-Corte C, Navascués RA, Naves M, Ure a A, Bad a X, Alvarez-Ude F, Alvarez-Grande J: Health related quality of life ... Ganz PA: Impact of quality of life outcomes on clinical practice Oncology 1995, 11(suppl):61-65 Stewart AL, Hays RD, Ware JE: Methods of validating MOS health Measures In Measuring functioning and...

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... development of the computer program which had to include several crucial specifications (instant scoring and graphical output of the data, instant availability of data to physicians, guaranteing patient ... the assessment of the physical, psychological, and social functioning of the patient in terms of the impact of disease is "an essential part of clinical diagnosis, a major determinant of therapeutic ... feedback of HRQoL has as of yet not been widely implemented in clinical practice This may be explained by the initial lack of convincing data regarding the effectiveness of standardized HRQoL measurement...

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... general population with a standard deviation of 10 Validation measures We used a number of validation measures available from the SAPALDIA database that met the Global Initiative for Asthma criteria ... in the respective area for at least three years, were drawn from the local registries of inhabitants of these areas Health examinations were conducted at the eight local centres at baseline in ... pain", "social functioning" and "role emotional" domains The "general health", "vitality" and "mental health" domains showed almost normal distributions Cronbach alpha was above 0.7 for all AQLQ...

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... used as a covariate because there was too much missing data (>10% of the population had missing data on this variable) All data were from self-report Age was categorized into quartiles (12–29 years, ... calculation of time since cancer diagnosis are collected as part of the CCHS Cycle 1.1 microdata, these variables are not available in the CCHS PUF Another limitation of this dataset was the inability ... precise as the micro data available through Statistics Canada In the PUF, some data elements are aggregated, and variables that have been collapsed, and more importantly there is no information...

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... health-related quality of life Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:47 Hakkinen A, Rinne M, Vasankari T, Santtila M, Hakkinen K, Kyrolainen H: Association of physical fitness with health-related ... FA, Valenzuela A, Gusi N, Nacher S, Gallardo I: [Evaluation of healthrelated fitness in adults (II): reliability, applicability and normative values of the AFISAL-INEFC battery] Apunts Educación ... questions regarding age, marital status, educational level, smoking and alcohol habits, and the weekly level of PA was administered Health-related quality of life The Spanish version of the EQ-5D-3L...

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... adjustment of survivors of early-stage breast carcinoma, 20 years after adjuvant chemotherapy Cancer 2003, 98:679-689 35 Sammarco A: Quality of life among older survivors of breast cancer Cancer Nurs ... diagnosed at an older age had worse QoL in physical domain and women diagnosed at a younger age had worse QoL in social domain FACT-B Selfadministered CARES-SF; other instruments (SF-36, Ladder of Life ... Quality of Life in Adult Cancer Survivors Scale; QLI-CV: Quality of Life Index-Cancer Version; QOL: Quality of Life; QOL-CS: Quality of Life- Cancer Survivors; QOLS: Quality of Life Scale; SF-36:...

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... development of the computer program which had to include several crucial specifications (instant scoring and graphical output of the data, instant availability of data to physicians, guaranteing patient ... the assessment of the physical, psychological, and social functioning of the patient in terms of the impact of disease is "an essential part of clinical diagnosis, a major determinant of therapeutic ... feedback of HRQoL has as of yet not been widely implemented in clinical practice This may be explained by the initial lack of convincing data regarding the effectiveness of standardized HRQoL measurement...

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... and paging traffic into the same Unison network, as well as the addition of EV-DO data services as they become available “As our legacy antennas for the public safety and paging systems fail, ... knew about in- building wireless systems and wanted to a pilot deployment, so the Fitzpatrick Center was a good choice,” said Dana Risley, senior manager of the finance and administration group at ... research as well as consultations with major cellular service providers in the area, Risley came up with a short list of requirements: reliability, ease of installation with minimal disruption (in...

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... asthma J Asthma 2003, 40:751-762 Chang CH, Cella D, Masters GA, Laliberte N, O'Brien P, Peterman A, Shervin D: Real-time clinical application of quality- of- life assessment in advanced lung cancer ... recommended in a previous study as a rule of thumb [20] Training We developed a 1-hour interactive training course for participating GPs and practice assistants to cover: patient enrolment and obtaining ... illness of the practice assistant; change in practice software; lack of time) According to the practice assistants, virtually all patients who were invited agreed to take part in the study In total,...

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... measures are applicable to any population and scores may be compared to general population norms as well as across diseases Disease-specific measures contain items of particular relevance to patients ... loss/gain category a Negative b Based changes indicate deterioration; positive changes indicate improvement on standard deviation at baseline Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) Health ... measures in a single weight loss trial Methods Participants Data were obtained from adults who participated in a one-year randomized, placebo-controlled trial of an experimental medication for...

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... patient and caregiver characteristics with caregiver quality- of- life scale scores were analyzed using Pearson or Spearman correlations or analysis of variance (ANOVA), as appropriate Backwards stepwise ... have actually had change in quality of life by setting a cap on the testretest interval and restricting to those who changed minimally on an external criterion variable, true change may have attenuated ... nonmissing data for the particular variable Higher order associations of individual scales were evaluated using factor analysis Several number of factor criteria were run, including Guttman's weakest...

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... that small improvements in HRQoL may be of great significance for individuals nearing the end of life List of abbreviations HRQoL: Health related Quality of Life; AQoL: Assessment of Quality of ... GJA: WHQoL-Bref as a measure of quality of life in older patients with depression International Psychogeriatrics 2004, 16:159-73 Schrag A, Jahanshahi M, Quinn N: How does Parkinson's disease affect ... score of 0.73 for Australians aged 70 years or more [19] Furthermore, 34% of all participants rated themselves as in a state worse than death at baseline, and 81% of the sample rated themselves at...

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... was translated and adapted into several languages and the validation studies reported the translated versions could provide reliable and valid measurements as the original and could be used in ... questionnaires after a seven-day period Construct validity was assessed using factor analysis that combines observable variables into unobservable, latent variables, giving insights into the ... citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009, 7:79 This is mainly because QOL questionnaires often combine items with a causal relationship with the latent variables, causal variables,...

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... department of Dr Sardjito Hospital in Yogyakarta, Indonesia Dr Sardjito Hospital is a teaching hospital of the medical faculty of the Gadjah Mada University, and a tertiary-care referral hospital ... hospitalization class or data of family income is not available, we used hospitalization class as SES determinant Medical data regarding diagnosis and treatment status were obtained from the patients' ... two local professional translators, native Indonesia speakers, and bilingual in English language The second step, the Bahasa Indonesia version was translated back to English version and it was done...

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... baseline) and in the waiting room at the medical centre (64.6% at baseline) rather than at home Quality of completion There was a high return rate of questionnaires (93.5% at baseline) and quality ... Mean change measured between baseline and endpoint ES = (mean at endpoint – mean at baseline)/standard deviation of change patients had a fracture, they tended to have a positive mean change in ... (semi-quantitative and quantitative) and as a major clinical expert in the SOTI study, also validated the clinical aspects of the article PJM is the SOTI coordinator and as a major clinical expert in the...

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... with a combination of interferon alpha-2b and ribavirin Compared to the baseline, the responders sustained a significant decrease in the domain score of vitality while of the domain scores declined ... Trejo-Estrada R, Horta E, Vale A, Wintfeld N, Green J: The impact of peginterferon alfa- 2a plus ribavirin combination therapy on health-related quality of life in chronic hepatitis C J Hepatol 2004, ... Gervais A, Martinot M, Pouteau M, Castelnau C, Kilani A, Areias J, Auperin A, Benhamou JP, Degott C, Erlinger S: Long-term histologic improvement and loss of detectable intrahepatic HCV RNA in patients...

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... this article as: Chariyalertsak et al.: Reliability and validity of Thai versions of the MOS-HIV and SF-12 quality of life questionnaires in people living with HIV/AIDS Health and Quality of Life ... interest in the study Demographic and HIV/AIDS related information Demographic information, including age, sex, marital status, educational attainment, and occupation/ Page of employment status were ... Ichikawa M, Natpratan C: Quality of life among people living with HIV/ AIDS in northern Thailand: MOS-HIV Health Survey Qual Life Res 2004, 13:601-610 15 Badia X, Podzamczer D, Casado A, Lopez-Lavid...

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... Kotzeva A, Valderas JM, Alonso J: Exploration of the value of healthrelated quality- of- life information from clinical research and into clinical practice Mayo Clin Proc 2007, 82:1229-1239 Garratt A, ... Interpreting the significance of changes in health-related quality- of- life scores J Clin Oncol 1998, 16:139-144 18 Jaeschke R, Singer J, Guyatt GH: Measurement of health status Ascertaining the minimal ... standard normal distribution The Intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) was computed from a one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) ICC is the ratio of the variance of interest to the sum of...

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