Quality of Life Research

• Open Access
• Review

Quality of life of cancer patients at palliative care units in developing countries: systematic review of the published literature

Dwi Gayatri, Ljupcho Efremov, Eva Johanna Kantelhardt, Rafael Mikolajczyk

Patient-reported outcomes in non-muscle invasive bladder cancer: a mixed-methods systematic review

Claudia Rutherford, Manish I. Patel, Margaret-Ann Tait, David P. Smith, Daniel S. J. Costa, Shomik Sengupta, Madeleine T. King

• Review

The effect of cognitive behavioral therapy on the quality of life of breast cancer patients: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Mikiyas Amare Getu, Chen Changying, Wang Panpan, Joanes Faustine Mboineki, Kamala Dhakal, Ruofei Du

Patient-reported outcomes in survivors of breast cancer one, three, and five years post-diagnosis: a cancer registry-based feasibility study

Anita R. Skandarajah, Karolina Lisy, Andrew Ward, Jim Bishop, Karen Lacey, Bruce Mann, Michael Jefford

A non-compensatory analysis of quality of life in breast cancer survivors using multivariate hidden Markov modeling

Edward H. Ip, Beverly J. Levine, Nancy E. Avis

A randomised online experimental study to compare responses to brief and extended surveys of health-related quality of life and psychosocial outcomes among women with breast cancer

Kerry Ettridge, Joanna Caruso, David Roder, Ivanka Prichard, Katrine Scharling-Gamba, Kathleen Wright, Caroline Miller

• Open Access

Randomized controlled trial of a group intervention combining self-hypnosis and self-care: secondary results on self-esteem, emotional distress and regulation, and mindfulness in post-treatment cancer patients

C. Grégoire, M.-E. Faymonville, A. Vanhaudenhuyse, G. Jerusalem, S. Willems, I. Bragard

• Open Access

Quality of life more than 10 years after radiotherapy for localized prostate cancer—impact of time after treatment and prescription dose

Michael Pinkawa, Amr Gharib, Marsha Schlenter, Ludmila Timm, Michael J. Eble

• Original Research

The impact of symptoms and comorbidity on health utility scores and health-related quality of life in small cell lung cancer using real world data

Ali Vedadi, Sharara Shakik, M. Catherine Brown, Benjamin H. Lok, Frances A. Shepherd, Natasha B. Leighl, Adrian Sacher, Penelope A. Bradbury, Wei Xu, Geoffrey Liu, Grainne M. O’Kane

• Open Access

Functional impairment and disability among patients with migraine: evaluation of galcanezumab in a long-term, open-label study

Janet H. Ford, Virginia L. Stauffer, Peter McAllister, Sreelatha Akkala, Matthew Sexson, David W. Ayer, Shufang Wang

• Correction

Correction to: Functional impairment and disability among patients with migraine: evaluation of galcanezumab in a long-term, open-label study

Janet H. Ford, Virginia L. Stauffer, Peter McAllister, Sreelatha Akkala, Matthew Sexson, David W. Ayer, Shufang Wang

A multicenter cross-sectional study of the quality of life and iron chelation treatment satisfaction of patients with transfusion-dependent β-thalassemia, in routine care settings in Western Greece

Vassilis Goulas, Alexandra Kouraklis-Symeonidis, Kyriaki Manousou, Vassileios Lazaris, George Pairas, Paraskevi Katsaouni, Eugenia Verigou, Vassiliki Labropoulou, Vassiliki Pesli, Panagiotis Kaiafas, Urania Papageorgiou, Argiris Symeonidis

Pain intensity and mental health quality of life in veterans with mental illnesses: the intermediary role of physical health and the ability to participate in activities

Emre Umucu, Antonio Reyes, Paul Carrola, Thenral Mangadu, Beatrice Lee, Jessica M. Brooks, Karen L. Fortuna, Diana Villegas, Chung-Yi Chiu, Carolina Valencia

Quality of life among patients with epilepsy in Nigeria: predictors and barriers to routine clinical use of QOLIE-31

Temitope Ogundare, Timothy O. Adebowale, Obinna A. Okonkwo

• Open Access

Depression, anxiety, and loneliness among adolescents and young adults with IBD in the UK: the role of disease severity, age of onset, and embarrassment of the condition

Pamela Qualter, Alison Rouncefield-Swales, Lucy Bray, Lucy Blake, Steven Allen, Chris Probert, Kay Crook, Bernie Carter

A mixed-methods exploration of faith, spirituality, and health program interest among older African Americans with HIV

Allysha C. Maragh-Bass, Danetta Hendricks Sloan, Fahid Alghanim, Amy R. Knowlton

Association of smoking status and health-related quality of life: difference among young, middle-aged, and older adults in Shandong, China

Zhengyue Jing, Jie Li, Yi Wang, Yemin Yuan, Dan Zhao, Wenting Hao, Caiting Yu, Chengchao Zhou

Evaluation of the ECOHIS and the CARIES-QC among an Australian “Aboriginal” population

Peter Arrow, David Brennan, Tamara Mackean, Rob McPhee, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Lisa Jamieson

• Open Access

Predictors of quality of life among youths in foster care—a 5-year prospective follow-up study

Marit Larsen, Anouk Goemans, Valborg Baste, Tom F. Wilderjans, Stine Lehmann

• Open Access

Developing dimensions for a new preference-based quality of life instrument for older people receiving aged care services in the community

Jenny Cleland, Claire Hutchinson, Candice McBain, Ruth Walker, Rachel Milte, Jyoti Khadka, Julie Ratcliffe

• Open Access

A multi-center psychometric evaluation of the Severity Indices of Personality Problems 118 (SIPP-118): Do we really need all those facets?

Muirne C. S. Paap, Benjamin Hummelen, Johan Braeken, Espen A. Arnevik, Espen Walderhaug, Theresa Wilberg, Han Berghuis, Joost Hutsebaut, Geir Pedersen

• Open Access

A validation study of the CarerQol instrument in informal caregivers of people with dementia from eight European countries

Daphne C. Voormolen, Job van Exel, Werner Brouwer, Anders Sköldunger, Manuel Gonçalves-Pereira, Kate Irving, Anja Bieber, Geir Selbaek, Bob Woods, Orazio Zanetti, Frans Verhey, Anders Wimo, Ron L. H. Handels

Loneliness in adolescence: a Rasch analysis of the Perth A-loneness scale

Stephen Houghton, Ida Marais, Simon C. Hunter, Annemaree Carroll, David Lawrence, Carol Tan

Translation and validation of the Korean version of the Sarcopenia Quality of Life (SarQoL-K®) questionnaire and applicability with the SARC-F screening tool

Jun-Il Yoo, Yong-Chan Ha, Miji Kim, Sung-Hyo Seo, Mi-Ji Kim, Gyeong-Ye Lee, Young-Mi Seo, Changsu Sung, Ki-Soo Park

Development and assessment of a verbal response scale for the Patient-Specific Functional Scale (PSFS) in a low-literacy, non-western population

Anupa Pathak, Saurab Sharma, Allen W. Heinemann, Paul W. Stratford, Daniel Cury Ribeiro, J. Haxby Abbott

• Open Access

Validation of the Hungarian version of the CarerQol instrument in informal caregivers: results from a cross-sectional survey among the general population in Hungary

Petra Baji, Werner B. F. Brouwer, Job van Exel, Dominik Golicki, Valentina Prevolnik Rupel, Zsombor Zrubka, László Gulácsi, Valentin Brodszky, Fanni Rencz, Márta Péntek