Quality of Life Research

• Review

Effectiveness of foot orthoses in patients with rheumatoid arthritis related to disability and pain: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Gabriel Gijon-Nogueron, Laura Ramos-Petersen, Ana Belen Ortega-Avila, Jose Miguel Morales-Asencio, Silvia Garcia-Mayor

• Review

Identifying the concepts contained within health-related quality of life outcome measures in concussion research using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health as a reference: a systematic review

Jacquie van Ierssel, Heidi Sveistrup, Shawn Marshall

• Review

Measuring quality of life in children with spinal muscular atrophy: a systematic literature review

Shalvaree Vaidya, Stefan Boes

• Correction

Correction to: Measuring quality of life in children with spinal muscular atrophy: a systematic literature review

Shalvaree Vaidya, Stefan Boes

• Open Access

Identification and assessment of health-related quality of life issues in patients with sporadic desmoid-type fibromatosis: a literature review and focus group study

Milea J. M. Timbergen, Lonneke V. van de Poll-Franse, Dirk J. Grünhagen, Winette T. van der Graaf, Stefan Sleijfer, Cornelis Verhoef, Olga Husson

Physical training following gastric bypass: effects on physical activity and quality of life—a randomized controlled trial

Charlotte Røn Stolberg, Lene Hymøller Mundbjerg, Else-Marie Bladbjerg, Peter Funch-Jensen, Bibi Gram, Claus Bogh Juhl

Association of the combination of sleep duration and sleep quality with quality of life in type 2 diabetes patients

Yanbing Zeng, Jielong Wu, Jiahui Yin, Jia Chen, Shuyu Yang, Ya Fang

• Brief Communication

Association of individual and area-level socioeconomic conditions with quality of life and glycaemic control in 11- to 21-year-old adolescents with early-onset type 1 diabetes: a cross-sectional study

Christina Bächle, Anna Peneva, Werner Maier, Katty Castillo, Anna Stahl-Pehe, Oliver Kuß, Rolf Holle, Julia M. Hermann, Reinhard W. Holl, Joachim Rosenbauer

Health-related quality of life among pulmonary tuberculosis patients in Pakistan

Saniya Saleem, Amyn A. Malik, Asma Ghulam, Junaid Ahmed, Hamidah Hussain

Factors influencing self-reported anxiety or depression following stroke or TIA using linked registry and hospital data

Tharshanah Thayabaranathan, Nadine E. Andrew, Monique F. Kilkenny, Rene Stolwyk, Amanda G. Thrift, Rohan Grimley, Trisha Johnston, Vijaya Sundararajan, Natasha A. Lannin, Dominique A. Cadilhac

A qualitative study of patients’ perceptions of the utility of patient-reported outcome measures of symptoms in primary care clinics

Tasneem L. Talib, Paige DeChant, Jacob Kean, Patrick O. Monahan, David A. Haggstrom, Madison E. Stout, Kurt Kroenke

Impact of further injury on participation in work and activities among those previously injured: results from a New Zealand prospective cohort study

Suzanne J. Wilson, Gabrielle Davie, Helen Harcombe, Emma H. Wyeth, Ian D. Cameron, Sarah Derrett

Methamphetamine use and oral health-related quality of life

Amrita Mukherjee, Bruce A. Dye, Jason Clague, Thomas R. Belin, Vivek Shetty

Impact of untreated dental caries severity on the quality of life of preschool children and their families: a cross-sectional study

Patrícia Corrêa-Faria, Anelise Daher, Maria do Carmo Matias Freire, Mauro Henrique Nogueira Guimarães de Abreu, Marcelo Bönecker, Luciane Rezende Costa

Quality of life and stability of tooth color change at three months after dental bleaching

Cristian Bersezio, Javier Martín, Carla Mayer, Oriana Rivera, Juan Estay, Rolando Vernal, Ziyad S. Haidar, Pablo Angel, Osmir B. Oliveira Jr., Eduardo Fernández

Assessment of the Dermatology Life Quality Index (DLQI) in a homogeneous population under lifetime arsenic exposure

Yi Xiao, Xiaoyan Huang, Danrong Jing, Yuzhou Huang, Xingyu Zhang, Zhihao Shu, Zhijun Huang, Juan Su, Jie Li, Jianglin Zhang, Mingliang Chen, Xiang Chen, Minxue Shen

Linking the Psychosocial Impact of Assistive Devices Scale (PIADS) to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability, and Health

S. Traversoni, J. Jutai, C. Fundarò, S. Salvini, R. Casale, A. Giardini

Modification of existing patient-reported outcome measures: qualitative development of the MD Anderson Symptom Inventory for malignant pleural mesothelioma (MDASI-MPM)

Loretta A. Williams, Meagan S. Whisenant, Tito R. Mendoza, Shireen Haq, Karen N. Keating, Brian Cuffel, Charles S. Cleeland

Child maltreatment as a social determinant of midlife health-related quality of life in women: do psychosocial factors explain this association?

Hsing-Hua S. Lin, Ashley I. Naimi, Maria M. Brooks, Gale A. Richardson, Jessica G. Burke, Joyce T. Bromberger

Factors associated with quality of life among married women in rural China: a cross-sectional study

Hao Huang, Siqi Liu, Xiaoxing Cui, Junfeng Zhang, Hui Wu

The relationship of neighbourhood-level material and social deprivation with health-related quality of life

Hilary Short, Fatima Al Sayah, Arto Ohinmaa, Markus Lahtinen, Jeffrey A. Johnson

• Brief Communication

Health-related quality of life and the physician–patient alliance: a preliminary investigation of ultra-brief, real-time measures for primary care

Clay Graybeal, Brian DeSantis, Barry L. Duncan, Robert J. Reese, Kathryn Brandt, Robert T. Bohanske

How you live is how you feel? Positive associations between different lifestyle factors, cognitive functioning, and health-related quality of life across adulthood

Caroline Cohrdes, Gert B. M. Mensink, Heike Hölling

Physical activity attenuates the impact of poor physical, mental, and social health on total and cardiovascular mortality in older adults: a population-based prospective cohort study

Sara Higueras-Fresnillo, Verónica Cabanas-Sánchez, Esther García-Esquinas, Fernando Rodríguez-Artalejo, David Martinez-Gomez

The importance of national levels of eudaimonic well-being to life satisfaction in old age: a global study

Mohsen Joshanloo, M. Joseph Sirgy, Joonha Park

• Open Access

Cancer survivors not participating in observational patient-reported outcome studies have a lower survival compared to participants: the population-based PROFILES registry

Belle H. de Rooij, Nicole P. M. Ezendam, Floortje Mols, Pauline A. J. Vissers, Melissa S. Y. Thong, Carla C. P. Vlooswijk, Simone Oerlemans, Olga Husson, Nicole J. E. Horevoorts, Lonneke V. van de Poll-Franse