Quality of Life Research

• Open Access
• Review

Methodological quality of 100 recent systematic reviews of health-related outcome measurement instruments: an overview of reviews

Ellen B. M. Elsman, Lidwine B. Mokkink, Inger L. Abma, Olalekan Lee Aiyegbusi, Alessandro Chiarotto, Kirstie L. Haywood, Karen Matvienko-Sikar, Daniella M. Oosterveer, Jan J. M. Pool, Ilse E. J. Swinkels-Meewisse, Martin Offringa, Caroline B. Terwee

• Open Access
• Review

Understanding factors impacting patient-reported outcome measures integration in routine clinical practice: an umbrella review

Michael Anderson, Robin van Kessel, Eleanor Wood, Adam Stokes, Jon Fistein, Ian Porter, Elias Mossialos, Jose M. Valderas

• Review

Global quality of life and mortality risk in patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Takuya Fukushima, Katsuyoshi Suzuki, Takashi Tanaka, Taro Okayama, Junichiro Inoue, Shinichiro Morishita, Jiro Nakano

• Letter to the Editor

The MID50 is not insensitive to the distribution of the change score if measurement error is taken into account

Berend Terluin, Lina H. Ingelsrud, Yong-Hao Pua

• Letter to the Editor

Requirements on construction methods for MID values should be fulfilled for at least one method

Werner Vach, Franziska Saxer

Measuring what matters to older persons for active living: part I content development for the OPAL measure across four countries

Nancy E. Mayo, Mohammad Auais, Ruth Barclay, Joan Branin, Helen Dawes, Ida J. Korfage, Kim Sawchuk, Eran Tal, Carole L. White, Zain Ayoubi, Fariha Chowdhury, Julia Henderson, Mae Mansoubi, Kedar K. V. Mate, Lyne Nadea, Sebastian Rodriguez, Ayse Kuspinar

Measuring what matters to older persons for active living: part II cross-sectional validity evidence for OPAL measure across four countries

Nancy E. Mayo, Mohammad Auais, Ruth Barclay, Joan Branin, Helen Dawes, Ida J. Korfage, Kim Sawchuk, Eran Tal, Carole L. White, Zain Ayoubi, Ezinne Ekediegwu, Kedar Mate, Lyne Nadeau, Sebastian Rodriguez Duque, Ayse Kuspinar

• Correction

Correction: Measuring what matters to older persons for active living: part II cross-sectional validity evidence for OPAL measure across four countries

Nancy E. Mayo, Mohammad Auais, Ruth Barclay, Joan Branin, Helen Dawes, Ida J. Korfage, Kim Sawchuk, Eran Tal, Carole L. White, Zain Ayoubi, Ezinne Ekediegwu, Kedar Mate, Lyne Nadeau, Sebastian Rodriguez Duque, Ayse Kuspinar

• Open Access

Validation of the EQ-5D-Y-5L parent-proxy version among children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis

Arto Ohinmaa, Jiabi Wen, Gillian R. Currie, Susanne M Benseler, Joost F Swart, Sebastiaan J Vastert, Rae S M Yeung, Deborah A. Marshall

• Open Access

Assessing the psychometric performance of the EQ-5D-5L among informal caregivers of people with dementia

Valeriia Sokolova, Jan Faller, Siti Khadijah Binti Mohamad Asfia, Lidia Engel

Health-related quality of life in ethnically diverse Black prostate cancer survivors: a convergent parallel mixed-methods approach

Motolani E. Ogunsanya, Ernest Kaninjing, Tanara N. Ellis, Daniel J. Morton, Andrew G. McIntosh, Jian Zhao, Sabrina L. Dickey, Darla E. Kendzor, Kathleen Dwyer, Mary Ellen Young, Folakemi T. Odedina

Health-related quality of life and radioiodine therapy in thyroid cancer patients: a before-and-after study

Alix Legrand, Marie-Odile Bernier, Alice Bressand, Camille Buffet, Corinne Mandin, Fabrice Menegaux, Marine Soret, David Broggio, Céline Bassinet, Christelle Huet, Laurence Leenhardt, Charlotte Lussey-Lepoutre, Clémence Baudin

A longitudinal study of within-person trajectories in quality of life in patients receiving early palliative care

Brian P. O’Connor, Barbara Pesut

• Open Access

Health-related quality of life is an independent predictor of mortality and hospitalisations in transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy: a prospective cohort study

Michael Poledniczek, Christina Kronberger, Robin Willixhofer, Nikita Ermolaev, Bernhard Cherouny, Theresa-Marie Dachs, René Rettl, Christina Binder-Rodriguez, Luciana Camuz Ligios, Bernhard Gregshammer, Andreas Anselm Kammerlander, Johannes Kastner, Jutta Bergler-Klein, Franz Duca, Roza Badr Eslam

• Open Access

Comprehensive assessment of pain characteristics, quality of life, and pain management in cancer patients: a multi-center cross-sectional study

Sunil Shrestha, Simit Sapkota, Siew Li Teoh, Bhuvan KC, Vibhu Paudyal, Shaun Wen Huey Lee, Siew Hua Gan

• Open Access

The validity of single-item measures of health-related quality of life across groups differing in acute respiratory symptom severity

Adam B. Smith, John E. Ware Jr., Patricia Aluko, Anuradha Kulasekaran

• Open Access
• Commentary

Patient engagement in quality of life research

Natasha Roberts, Sandra Zelinsky, Sadia Ahmed, Christel McMullan, Leonie Young

• Open Access

Analyzing quality of life among people with opioid use disorder from the National Institute on Drug Abuse Data Share initiative: implications for decision making

Thomas Patton, Jan R. Boehnke, Ravi Goyal, Andrea Manca, Carla Marienfeld, Natasha K. Martin, Bohdan Nosyk, Annick Borquez

• Open Access

Stability and change in maternal wellbeing and illbeing from pregnancy to three years postpartum

Lilian Mayerhofer, Ragnhild Bang Nes, Baeksan Yu, Ziada Ayorech, Xiaoyu Lan, Eivind Ystrom, Espen Røysamb

Development and preliminary validation of a diagnostic prediction model to optimise outpatient management of patients with urolithiasis using urinary stones and intervention quality of life (USIQoL) measure

Ruth C. Jarvis, Philip Pallmann, Collett Clements, Hrishikesh Joshi

• Open Access

Health-related quality of life and utility values among patients with anxiety and/or depression in a low-income tertiary care setting: a cross-sectional analysis

Yared Belete Belay, Cathrine Mihalopoulos, Yong Yi Lee, Lidia Engel

Patient-reported outcomes (PROs) in NRG Oncology RTOG 0436: a phase III trial evaluating the addition of cetuximab to paclitaxel, cisplatin, and radiation for esophageal cancer treated without surgery

Lisa A. Kachnic, Kathryn Winter, Mohan Suntharalingam, David Ilson, André Konski, Shane Lloyd, Sarah A. McAvoy, Thomas Lad, Olugbenga Gbenga Olowokure, Pamela Samson, Elizabeth M. Gore, Joshua E. Meyer, Gregory M. M. Videtic, David A. Clump, Adam Raben, Omar Kayaleh, Jerry Barker Jr., Michael G. Haddock, Judith O. Hopkins, Deborah W. Bruner

• Open Access

Long-term effects of the COVID-19 pandemic for patients with cancer

Yana Debie, Ziyad Palte, Haya Salman, Lise Verbruggen, Greetje Vanhoutte, Siddharth Chhajlani, Silke Raats, Ella Roelant, Timon Vandamme, Marc Peeters, Peter A. van Dam

The faces of Long-COVID: interplay of symptom burden with socioeconomic, behavioral and healthcare factors

Carolyn E. Schwartz, Katrina Borowiec, Bruce D. Rapkin

• Open Access

The FACT-GP5 as a global tolerability measure: responsiveness and robustness to missing assessments

Cara Arizmendi, Yanyan Zhu, Maryam Khan, Jonathon Gable, Bryce B. Reeve, Bellinda King-Kallimanis, Jill Bell

• Correction

Correction to: Individual differences in the long-term impact of the pandemic: moderators of COVID-related hardship, worry, and social support

Carolyn E. Schwartz, Katrina Borowiec, Yuelin Li, Bruce D. Rapkin