Quality of Life Research

The effect of whole body vibration on health-related quality of life in patients with chronic conditions: a systematic review

• Review

Guichen Li, Guangwei Zhang, Yanyan Wang, Xinxin Wang, Haiyan Zhou, Hongyan Li, Li Chen

Patient-reported outcomes as predictors of survival in patients with bowel cancer: a systematic review

Claudia Rutherford, Rachel Campbell, Kate White, Madeleine King

Self-management and health related quality of life in persons with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Heidi B. Bringsvor, Eva Langeland, Bjørg Frøysland Oftedal, Knut Skaug, Jörg Assmus, Signe Berit Bentsen

Association between Type D personality and outcomes in patients with non-ischemic heart failure

Johan S. Bundgaard, Lauge Østergaard, Gunnar Gislason, Jens J. Thune, Jens C. Nielsen, Jens Haarbo, Lars Videbæk, Line L. Olesen, Anna M. Thøgersen, Christian Torp-Pedersen, Susanne S. Pedersen, Lars Køber, Ulrik M. Mogensen

The importance of face-to-face contact and reciprocal relationships and their associations with depressive symptoms and life satisfaction

Melissa Simone, Christian Geiser, Ginger Lockhart

Cortisol, oxytocin, and quality of life in major depressive disorder

Ai Ling Tang, Susan J. Thomas, Theresa Larkin

Exploring the patient experience of locally advanced or metastatic pancreatic cancer to inform patient-reported outcomes assessment

• Open Access

Joseph M. Herman, Helen Kitchen, Arnold Degboe, Natalie V. J. Aldhouse, Andrew Trigg, Mary Hodgin, Amol Narang, Colin D. Johnson

Changes in taste among pediatric patients with cancer and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation recipients

Robyn Loves, Erin Plenert, Vivian Tomlinson, Sasha Palmert, Gloria Green, Tal Schechter, Deborah Tomlinson, Emily Vettese, Sue Zupanec, L. Lee Dupuis, Lillian Sung

Lymphoma survivors’ experience of participation in a home-based intervention post-chemotherapy

• Open Access
• Brief Communication

Suchita Hathiramani, R. Pettengell, H. Moir, A. Younis

Cancer survivor perspectives on sharing patient-generated health data with central cancer registries

T. G. Smith, M. E. Dunn, K. Y. Levin, S. P. Tsakraklides, S. A. Mitchell, L. V. van de Poll-Franse, K. C. Ward, C. L. Wiggins, X. C. Wu, M. Hurlbert, N. K. Aaronson

The moderating role of age in the relationship between different stressors and the quality of life of the relatives of people with intellectual disabilities

Lucía Oñate, Esther Calvete

Adapting traditional content validation methods to fit purpose: an example with a novel video assessment and training materials in Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD)

• Open Access

Michelle K. White, Mindy Leffler, Kaitlin Rychlec, Chris Jones, Christine McSherry, Linsey Walker, Mark Kosinski

Measuring perinatal and postpartum quality of life of women and associated factors in semi-urban Bangladesh

Rashidul Alam Mahumud, Nausad Ali, Nurnabi Sheikh, Raisul Akram, Khorshed Alam, Jeff Gow, Abdur Razzaque Sarker, Marufa Sultana

Correspondence of directly reported and recalled health-related quality of life in a large heterogeneous sample of trauma patients

• Open Access

I. Spronk, A. J. L. M. Geraerds, G. J. Bonsel, M. A. C. de Jongh, S. Polinder, J. A. Haagsma

Health-related quality of life at hospital discharge as a predictor for 6-month unplanned readmission and all-cause mortality of acutely admitted older medical patients

Jane Andreasen, Robbert J. J. Gobbens, Helle Højmark Eriksen, Kim Overvad

The link between sexual satisfaction and subjective well-being: a longitudinal perspective based on the German Ageing Survey

Elżbieta Buczak-Stec, Hans-Helmut König, André Hajek

Emotional problems and health-related quality of life: population-based study

Camila Stéfani Estancial Fernandes, Margareth Guimarães Lima, Marilisa Berti de Azevedo Barros

Impact of comorbidities and functional impairment on 5-year loss of health utility in patients with lower-limb osteoarthritis in the KHOALA cohort

Abdou Y. Omorou, Hamza Achit, Maud Wieczorek, Jacques Pouchot, Bruno Fautrel, Anne-Christine Rat, Francis Guillemin

Disabled life expectancy with and without stroke: a 10-year Japanese prospective cohort study

Chi-Tsun Chiu, Vanessa Yong, Hsiao-Wen Chen, Yasuhiko Saito

A comparison of self-rated health using EQ-5D VAS in the United States in 2002 and 2017

• Brief Communication

Ashley S. Cha, Ernest H. Law, James W. Shaw, A. Simon Pickard

Development and initial validation of the chronic hepatitis B quality of life instrument (CHBQOL) among Chinese patients

Lin Zhu, Jingxia Kong, Yingjing Zheng, Mengna Song, Xiao Cheng, Li Zhang, Donald L. Patrick, Hongmei Wang

Preliminary development of proxy-rated quality-of-life scales for children and adults with Niemann-Pick type C

• Open Access

Lydia Aston, Rachel Shaw, Rebecca Knibb

Psychometric properties of the Japanese version of the EQ-5D-Y by self-report and proxy-report: reliability and construct validity

• Open Access

T. Shiroiwa, T. Fukuda, K. Shimozuma

Prevalence of anxiety in patients with an implantable cardioverter defibrillator: measurement equivalence of the HADS-A and the STAI-S

• Open Access

W. H. Emons, M. Habibović, S. S. Pedersen

Differential item functioning of the CAHPS® In-Center Hemodialysis Survey

Claude M. Setodji, John D. Peipert, Ron D. Hays