Quality of Life Research

• Open Access
• Special Section: Non-parametric IRT

Advances in nonparametric item response theory for scale construction in quality-of-life research

Klaas Sijtsma, L. Andries van der Ark

• Open Access
• Special Section: Non-parametric IRT

Combining EQ-5D-5L items into a level summary score: demonstrating feasibility using non-parametric item response theory using an international dataset

You-Shan Feng, Ruixuan Jiang, A. Simon Pickard, Thomas Kohlmann

• Open Access
• Special Section: Non-parametric IRT

A two-step, test-guided Mokken scale analysis, for nonclustered and clustered data

Letty Koopman, Bonne J. H. Zijlstra, L. Andries van der Ark

• Special Section: Non-parametric IRT

More flexible response functions for the PROMIS physical functioning item bank by application of a monotonic polynomial approach

Carl F. Falk, Felix Fischer

• Open Access
• Special Section: Non-parametric IRT

The Crit coefficient in Mokken scale analysis: a simulation study and an application in quality-of-life research

Daniela R. Crișan, Jorge N. Tendeiro, Rob R. Meijer

• Special Section: Non-parametric IRT

Evaluation of the link between the Guttman errors and response shift at the individual level

Yseulys Dubuy, Véronique Sébille, Marie Grall-Bronnec, Gaëlle Challet-Bouju, Myriam Blanchin, Jean-Benoit Hardouin

• Special Section: Non-parametric IRT

Non-parametric measurement for patient-reported outcomes

Jan R. Boehnke

• Review

Evidence on the relationship between PROMIS-29 and EQ-5D: a literature review

Tianxin Pan, Brendan Mulhern, Rosalie Viney, Richard Norman, An Tran-Duy, Janel Hanmer, Nancy Devlin

• Review

The influence of psychosocial factors on patient-reported outcome measures in rotator cuff tears pre- and post-surgery: a systematic review

Nicolò Panattoni, Umile Giuseppe Longo, Sergio De Salvatore, Nadia Saray Castro Castaneda, Laura Risi Ambrogioni, Michela Piredda, Maria Grazia De Marinis, Vincenzo Denaro

• Open Access
• Review

Quality of life and subjective sleep-related measures in bipolar disorder and major depressive disorder

Françoise Jermann, Nader Perroud, Sophie Favre, Jean-Michel Aubry, Hélène Richard-Lepouriel

Sexual orientation and quality of life of people living with HIV/AIDS in China: evidence from an institutional-based cross-sectional study

Kaijie Liu, Feng Cheng, Hengjin Dong, Xuanjun Dong, Junfang Xu

• Open Access

How patients being treated for non-small cell lung cancer value treatment benefit despite side effects

Mona L. Martin, Julia Correll, Andrew Walding, Anna Rydén

The effect of treatment and coping on the quality of life in breast cancer patients: a moderated mediation model

Lorena Gutiérrez-Hermoso, Lilian Velasco-Furlong, Sofía Sánchez-Román, Elisabeth Berzal-Pérez, Natasha Alcocer-Castillejos, Paulina Quiroz-Friedman

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Beyond viral suppression: Quality of life among stable ART clients in a differentiated service delivery intervention in Tanzania

Nwanneka Ebelechukwu Okere, Veronica Censi, Clementina Machibya, Kathleen Costigan, P. Katambi, Giulia Martelli, Josien de Klerk, Sabine Hermans, Gabriela B. Gomez, Anton Pozniak, Tobias Rinke de Wit, Denise Naniche

Health-related quality of life and associated factors in HIV-positive transplant candidates and recipients from a HIV-positive donor

Claire Juliet Martin, Elmi Muller, Demetre Labadarios, Frederick Johannes Veldman, Susanna Maria Kassier

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Concern about addiction is associated with lower quality of life in patients with osteoarthritis: an exploratory, real-world data analysis

Louis P. Garrison, Patricia Schepman, Andrew G. Bushmakin, Rebecca L. Robinson, Leslie Tive, Jerry Hall, Mendwas Dzingina, James Jackson, Mia Berry, Joseph C. Cappelleri, Stuart Silverman

Assessing forgetfulness and polypharmacy and their impact on health-related quality of life among patients with hypertension and dyslipidemia in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kyriakos Souliotis, Theodoros V. Giannouchos, Chistina Golna, Evangelos Liberopoulos

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Measurement invariance of the short Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale and latent mean differences (SWEMWBS) in young people by current care status

Rebecca Anthony, Graham Moore, Nicholas Page, Gillian Hewitt, Simon Murphy, G. J. Melendez-Torres

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Developing and testing a cognitive bolt-on for the EQ-5D-Y (Youth)

Kristina Ludwig, Bastian Surmann, Eva Räcker, Wolfgang Greiner

Association between 24-hour movement behaviors and health-related quality of life in children

Xiuqin Xiong, Kim Dalziel, Natalie Carvalho, Rongbin Xu, Li Huang

• Open Access

Patients’ and parents’ perspective on the implementation of Patient Reported Outcome Measures in pediatric clinical practice using the KLIK PROM portal

Maud M. van Muilekom, Lorynn Teela, Hedy A. van Oers, Johannes B. van Goudoever, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Lotte Haverman

• Open Access
• Correction

Correction to: Patients’ and parents’ perspective on the implementation of Patient Reported Outcome Measures in pediatric clinical practice using the KLIK PROM portal

Maud M. van Muilekom, Lorynn Teela, Hedy A. van Oers, Johannes B. van Goudoever, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Lotte Haverman

Development of a preference-based heart disease-specific health state classification system using MacNew heart disease-related quality of life instrument

Sanjeewa Kularatna, Donna Rowen, Clara Mukuria, Steven McPhail, Gang Chen, Brendan Mulhern, Jennifer A. Whitty, Joshua Byrnes, Paul Scuffham, John Atherton, Stefan Höfer, William Parsonage

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Psychometric properties of the PROMIS-57 questionnaire, Norwegian version

Stein Arne Rimehaug, Aaron J. Kaat, Jan Egil Nordvik, Mari Klokkerud, Hilde Stendal Robinson

Development of a physical function outcome measure to harmonize comparisons between three Asian adult populations

Ickpyo Hong, Kimberly P. Hreha, Claudia L. Hilton, Mi Jung Lee

Cross-cultural adaptation of the SWAL-QOL and the Sydney Swallow Questionnaire (SSQ) into French-Canadian and preliminary assessment for their use in an oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD) population

Claudia Côté, Julie Fortin, Bernard Brais, Sarah Youssof, Cynthia Gagnon

• Open Access

Comparison of patient- and clinician-reported outcome measures in lower back rehabilitation: introducing a new integrated performance measure (t2D)

Andrej Zdravkovic, Vincent Grote, Michael Pirchl, Martin Stockinger, Richard Crevenna, Michael J. Fischer