... Italy QualityofLife Outcomes: I prefer this because it is brief and to the point! I believe it can be inclusive of not only overall qualityoflife but also elements ofqualityoflife such as health ... then the titles "Health- related qualityoflife outcomes" andHealthandqualityof life" are closer to the journal's intent James W Varni, Ph.D Professor of Psychiatry, University of California, ... that "Health Status measures being referred to as qualityoflife measures when they actually measure qualityofhealth not qualityoflife " because I think that health is part of our life The...
... Heyland DK, Hopman W, Coo H, Tranmer J and McColl MA Longterm health- related qualityoflife in survivors of sepsis Short Form 36: a valid and reliable measure of health- related qualityoflife ... 52:531-537 Zaren B and Hedstrand U Qualityoflife among long-term survivors of intensive care Crit Care Med 1987, 15:743-747 Hurel D, Loirat P, Saulnier F, Nicolas F and Brivet F Qualityoflife months ... and pre-morbid health status [6,7] Qualityoflife studies are often difficult to compare, since different intensive care populations have been studied and a variety ofqualityoflife measures...
... goals of improved exercise tolerance and emotional function (health- related qualityof life) and also important clinical goals such as prevention of disease progression and minimization of symptoms ... both qualityoflife questionnaires Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, Results Sixty-seven questionnaires were returned (87%) The data of ... perception of change in their state ofhealth in comparison with the previous visit, using the global rating of change Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityof Life...
... HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, Introduction Health Related QualityofLife (HRQoL) outcome measures are being increasingly used ... by quality for use in economic evaluations and decision models Preference-based health state scores or utilities not have natural units Since health is a function of both length oflifeandquality ... 37(5):469-478 Wyrwich KW, Tierney WM and Wolinsky FD Using the standard error of measurement to identify important changes on the Asthma QualityofLife Questionnaire QualityofLife Research 2002, 11:1-7...
... HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, Background In response to demands by stakeholders and the evolving field ofquality measurement, the Centers for ... surveys without fear of data quality problems Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, This does not mean, however, that health services researchers ... were marked for "Highest level of education", select the highest level of education marked Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/6...
... 1985, 70:662680 Anderson RT, Aaronson NK, Leplege AP and Wilkin D International use and application of generic health- related qualityoflife instruments In: Qualityoflifeand Pharmacoeconomics ... International QualityofLife Assessment Project (IQOLA) [34] and the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) QualityofLife Study Group [35] In addition to conceptual and psychometric ... Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, Authors' contributions NL and JT designed and supervised the study, analyzed and interpreted data, and...
... types of cancer [49,50], and standardized group psychoeducation for patients with any kind of cancer diagnoses [51–53] Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife ... charted so that other Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/8 health professionals are aware of the patients' distress ... distress and improve qualityoflife in cancer patients are widely available, highly effective, and standardized Given the bulk of literature available detailing the efficacy of various types of interventions...
... have dementia [15] Hospice QualityofLife Index The Hospice QualityofLife Index (HQLI) is a 28-item self-report tool that includes three aspects of overall qualityof life: Psychophysiologic ... HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, been used by Moody, et al in a number of dyspnea andqualityoflife studies.[4,5] Reliability of the scale has ranged from 88 to 94 Content validity and concurrent ... feelings of mastery, and perceived qualityoflife as related to being caregivers Research Questions Severe dyspnea, whether acute or chronic, affects patients' functional status andqualityof life...
... GA and Worden TJ The experience and expression of anger: Construction and validation of an anger expression scale In: Anger Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityof ... impact of TM on school-related conduct problems and attendance by assessing possible changes in perceived negative affective Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife ... conducted individually and consist of a personal interview, and instruction The remaining three steps are verification and validation of the practice and are presented in a group format Health Education...
... regardless of whether any indi- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/12 Table 1: Health- related qualityoflife ... related qualityoflife among persons with HIV after the use of protease inhibitors QualityofLife Research 2000, 9:941-949 Bing EG, Hays RD and Jacobson LP Health- related qualityoflife among people ... in HRQOL Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/12 Table 3: Adjusted health- related qualityoflife measures,...
... goals of improved exercise tolerance and emotional function (health- related qualityof life) and also important clinical goals such as prevention of disease progression and minimization of symptoms ... both qualityoflife questionnaires Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, Results Sixty-seven questionnaires were returned (87%) The data of ... perception of change in their state ofhealth in comparison with the previous visit, using the global rating of change Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityof Life...
... functioning and global qualityoflife as was expected This means that those who were more anxious or depressed showed lower levels of emotional functioning and global qualityoflife Thus this ... Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, HADS may result in under estimation of psychiatric morbidity among women with early stage breast cancer and ... validated Iranian version of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QualityofLife Questionnaire (EORTC QLQ-C30)[5] It was expected that the anxiety and the depression subscale...
... HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, nected computers has created opportunities for overcoming some of these barriers to communication in general, and to the dissemination of relevant ... practice psychology Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, Although in this RCT [12], the moderator was a health professional (a psychologist), ... segment of cyberspace is likely to be of much interest only to those directly involved in some way with breast cancer Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes...
... eight subscales of SF-36 have been shown to produce valid indices ofPhysicalHealthand Mental Health [17] Since the KOOS is designed to measure physicalhealth rather than mental health we expected ... Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/17 Table 5: Effect sizes and Standardized Response Mean (SRM) and 12 ... [24] Page of 10 (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/17 Table 6: Ceiling and floor effects of the KOOS and WOMAC Percentage...
... 276:1253-1258 Bennett KJ and Torrance GW: Measuring health state preferences and utilities: rating scale, time trade-off, and standard gamble techniques In: QualityofLifeand Pharmacoeconomics ... with qualityoflife questionnaires Italian Group for Evaluation of Outcomes in Oncology (I.G.E.O.) Tumori 1997, 85:92-95 Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife ... Publishers; 1996:253-265 Kind P: Chapter 22 The EuroQoL instrument: an index of health- related qualityoflife In: QualityofLifeand Pharmacoeconomics in Clinical Trials 2nd edition Edited by: Spilker...
... social and emotional functioning and lower on other three measures; role andphysical functioning and global qualityoflife (the higher Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQuality ... perceptions ofqualityoflife List of abbreviations NHP: the Nottingham Health Profile; EORTC QLQ-C30: the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer QualityofLife Questionnaire; ... baseline qualityoflife is a significant predictor of survival among lung cancer patients and other tumor types [5,18] We used three standard instruments to measure qualityof life; a general health...
... assuming a standard-deviation of 15 and a significance level of 0.05 The reason for the choice of an absolute Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes ... purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/21 Table 2: WOMAC before, and at one year and 3.6 years (26–65 months) after THR for OA Mean scores and (standard ... OA 45 patients had severe OA and 19 moderate OA in the hybrid group and 109 patients had severe Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/21...
... Mackintosh A and Fitzpatrick R: Qualityoflife measurement: bibliographic study of patient assessed health outcome measures BMJ 2002, 324:1417-9 Hyland ME: Recommendations from qualityoflife scales ... R and Hiller TK: Evaluation of impairment ofhealth related qualityoflife in asthma: development of a questionnaire for use in clinical trials Thorax 1992, 47:76-83 Hyland ME: The items in quality ... qualityoflife scales: How item selection creates bias and how bias can be prevented PharmacoEconomics 1992, 1:182-190 Hyland ME and Sodergren SC: Development of a new type of global qualityof life...
... component accounts of 67.5% of the total variance for the NHP20, and 85% of the total variance for the NHP22 Page of 13 (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes ... Preliminary Validity Am J Public Health 1990, 80:704-708 Patrick DL and Erikson P: Health status andhealth policy: Qualityoflife in health care evaluation and resource allocation New York: ... units, with a standard error of 0.37 to 0.63 Eighteen of the 22 items fit to define a unidimensional variable Page of 13 (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes...
... score of 11 or higher indicating probable presence ('caseness') of the mood disorder and a Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, score of to ... estimation of the severity of both anxiety andof depression This enabled a reduction of the number of items in the questionnaire to just seven reflecting anxiety and seven reflecting depression. (Of ... citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2003, 10 11 12 13 14 15 http://www.hqlo.com/content/1/1/29 Maguire GP, Julier DL, Hawton KE and Bancroft JHJ: Psychiatric morbidity and referral...