... decrement in health-related qualityoflife Int J Dermatol 2002, 41:151-158 Thomson KF, Wilkinson SM, Sommer S, Pollock B: Eczema: qualityoflife by body site and the effect of patch testing Br ... Qualityoflifein adults and children with allergic rhinitis J Allergy Clin Immunol 2001, 108:S45-53 Annett RD, Bender BG, Lapidus J, DuHamel TR, Lincoln A: Predicting Children's qualityoflifein ... gastro-intestinal symptoms and deterioration of parent's emotional HRQL In contrast to gastro-intestinal symptoms, the presence of food-induced breathing difficulties seems to improve two aspects of...
... test the interpretation and understanding of items and response ratings Cognitive interview techniques [15] were used to obtain feedback about the interpretation and understanding of items and respons ... health-related qualityoflife measures for children and adolescents InQualityoflifein child and adolescent illness, concepts, methods and findings (ss 49–88) Edited by: Koot HM Wallander JL: ... model for the pediatric qualityoflife inventory Med Care 1999, 37(2):126-139 Koot HM, Wallander JL: Qualityoflifein child and adolescent illness, concept, methods and findings Brunner-Routledge;...
... afford greater insight in describing and grading the impact of side effects associated to antipsychotic drugs [15,16] A brief instrument is preferred for use in clinical practice andin investigations ... the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV, being clinically stable (defined as having had no changes in severity or new treatments initiated in the last month), and taking a single oral antipsychotic ... UK: National Institute of Mental Health in England; 2005 Thornicroft G, Tansella M: Growing recognition of the importance of service user involvement in mental health service planning and evaluation...
... in the UK and US and to a lesser extent in Canada 9.1 Decline of the welfare state Teeple [11] sees increasing income and wealth inequalities and the weakening of social infrastructures within ... general andin home care in particular A recent volume has provided snapshots of the effects of increasing privatisation of health and home care on the qualityoflifeof women in each section of ... all indicators illuminate the state of political and economic forces that in uence the qualityoflifeof women in Canada and elsewhere A number of indicators from the HDR [26] map onto this quality...
... in parallel and were included in the Kidscreen project as validation instruments [11] As part of the process of obtaining the Spanish versions, interpretability issues were defined The aims of ... infraestimations of HRQL scores in the Spanish sample The use of both instruments in different populations, including clinical samples and from different geographical areas in Spain will allow for continuing ... Assessing health status andqualityoflife instruments: attributes and review criteria Qual Life Res 2002, 11:193-205 Gandek B, Ware J: Methods for validating and norming translations of health...
... 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 Qualityoflife scores in people with multiple sclerosis Qualityoflife scores in people with multiple ... Kollegger H, Kristoferitsch W, Zeitlhofer J: Factors influencing qualityoflifein multiple sclerosis patients: disability, depressive mood, fatigue and sleep quality Acta Neurol Scand 2004, 110(1):6-13...
... activity andqualityoflifein older adults J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 2001, 56(Spec No 2):23-35 Carr A, Gibson B, Robinson P: Measuring qualityof life: Is qualityoflife determined by expectations ... permeates a person's life, we examined the relationship between a commonly used index of frailty andqualityoflife indicators in a sample of older Mexican Americans We found that being pre-frail or ... 3) The finding that a standardized measure of frailty can differentiate qualityoflife ratings in aging Mexican Americans is important for two reasons First, low scores on the mental and physical...
... physical and mental dimension ofqualityoflifein Hong Kong Chinese adults Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2010 8:1 Publish with Bio Med Central and every scientist can read your work free of ... effects of pain on physical QoL The indirect effect of depression on the pain-QoL link pathway was 0.08, indicating that about 75% of the effect of pain on QoL impacted through the mediator of depression, ... chronic pain and depression when there is no organic lesion Pain 1987, 31:1-21 Anie KA, Steptoe A, Bevan DH: Sickle cell disease: Pain, coping andqualityoflifein a study of adults in the UK...
... measured by EQ-5D TTO and VAS indices Increasing age was associated with worse baseline EQ-5D TTO and VAS indices; on the other hand increasing income correlated with better baseline EQ-5D TTO values ... should be kept in mind that the point of focus of this study is the identification of predictors modifying the worsening (aggravation) of HRQoL at any time point before or after VABB In an attempt ... factor, limiting the deterioration in SF-36 Physical Functioning dimension; it is tempting to attribute this finding to analgesic and stress-modulating effects of nicotine (reviewed in [20]) Another...
... Measuring health-related qualityoflifein children with ESRD: performance of the generic and ESRD-specific instrument of the Pediatric QualityofLife Inventory (PedsQL) American Journal of Kidney ... requirement in accordance with the WHO definition of health and well-being [3] Pediatric qualityoflife studies that investigate the individuals’ perceptions of their well-being in a multidimensional ... validation of the Korean version of the Pediatric QualityofLife Inventory 4.0 (PedsQL) generic core Scales in school children and adolescents using the Rasch model Health andQualityofLife Outcomes...
... Indirect effect of physical or mental health status on globalqualityoflife as mediated by one of the life domains Sum of all indirect effects for physical and mental health status explaining ... shown here) *p < 05 obtain information about tobacco dependence, drug and health-related behavior, andqualityoflifein adolescents in grades to 12 in schools in the province of British Columbia ... Adolescent distinctions between qualityoflifeand self-rated health inqualityoflife research Health Qual Life Outcomes 2005, 3:64 Veenhoven R: The four qualities oflife J Happiness Stud 2000,...
... compare the influence of different types of resistance training and a control on changes in measures ofqualityoflifeand selfefficacy in older adults The data indicate that the mode of training resulted ... to changes inqualityoflifein older adults Following Stewart and King's [16] conceptual framework ofqualityoflife (QOL), we view QOL as consisting of both function and well-being Furthermore, ... benefits of strength training on physical function, evidence examining the influence of ST on qualityoflife or qualityoflifein older adults is equivocal For example, one study of cardiac...
... Health profiles are popular in situations where the interaction of the physical, social, mental and emotional determinants of health are of interest Health indices are useful in health policy and ... originated the study and contributed writing WDJ contributed interpreting results and writing VK proposed the ideas and posed a number of substantive questions related to data collection and ... description of the survey is reported elsewhere [7] In the spring of 2004, our investigation surveyed parents of children enrolled in an elementary school, kindergarten to fourth grade, in southern...
... responsiveness of generic and specific quality- of- life instruments J Clin Epidemiol 2003, 56(1):52-60 Coons SJ, Rao S, Keininger DL, Hays RD: A comparative review of generic quality- of- life instruments ... for evaluating the validity ofqualityoflife claims for labeling and promotion Value in Health 1999, 2(2):113-127 Neumann PJ, Goldie SJ, Weinstein MC: Preference-based measures in economic ... determined as part of an ophthalmologic examination (including slit-lamp biomicroscopy, intraocular pressure, and ophthalmoloscopy) at screening and each study visit Visual acuity was quantified in...
... health-related qualityof life; * Adjusted for age, sex and race Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2008, 6:110 ment in fitness by mL/kg·min of VO2peak ... Eakin EG, Dryfoos J, Chobanian L: Qualityoflifeand associated characteristics in a large national sample of adults with diabetes Diabetes Care 1997, 20(4):562-7 Wandell PE: Qualityoflifeof ... becoming non-significant, with the addition of fitness in models and [Additional file 1] Discussion There are several important new findings in this cross-sectional study examining the influence of...
... impressive gains in self-efficacy and QOL outcomes in a sample of older adults Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2009, 7:10 Although our findings offer ... 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 ... physical activity and QOL, as well as an expanded QOL model including both health status indicators andglobal QOL Given that the life expectancy of many countries continues to increase, a more...
... assessing erosions and joint space narrowing of joints of hands and feet in peripheral PsA The proposed adapted scoring method for PsA is a detailed scoring method evaluating erosions, joint space ... evaluation ofqualityoflifeandlife satisfaction in patients with psoriatic and rheumatoid arthritis Clin Rheumatol 2007, 26:330-4 Chorus AMJ, Miedema HS, Boonen A, Linden S van der: Qualityoflife ... 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 andin clinical trials [37] The...
... health related qualityoflifeof patients with fibromyalgia as related to the qualityoflifeof patients in other chronic conditions is presented in Table Results ofqualityoflifeof 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...
... I: Handling missing data inqualityoflife questionnaires: Experience from clinical trials 6th Annual Conference of the International Society for QualityofLife Research, Barcelona, Spain 1999 ... 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 ... validation of the German translation of the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale (GSRS) andQualityofLifein Reflux and Dyspepsia (QOLRAD) questionnaire in patients with reflux disease Health Qual Life...
... essential in order to meet basic needs, to fulfill usual roles, and to maintain health and wellbeing [5 ]Quality oflife (QoL) is defined as an individual's perception of their position in life, in the ... the internal standard of patients, resulting in changes in the meaning of self-evaluation and hence in a possibly different experience of problems and values, such as HRQoL HRQoL studies are influenced ... lie in measuring QoL in children, including (1) lack of consensus on suitable instruments, (2) the need for different instruments in different age groups and (3) the need of proxy reporting by...