Quality of Life Research

• Open Access
• Review

The quality of systematic reviews of health-related outcome measurement instruments

C. B. Terwee, C. A. C. Prinsen, M. G. Ricci Garotti, A. Suman, H. C. W. de Vet, L. B. Mokkink

• Open Access

The application of a network approach to Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL): introducing a new method for assessing HRQoL in healthy adults and cancer patients

Jolanda J. Kossakowski, Sacha Epskamp, Jacobien M. Kieffer, Claudia D. van Borkulo, Mijke Rhemtulla, Denny Borsboom

Distilling the essence of appraisal: a mixed methods study of people with multiple sclerosis

Bruce D. Rapkin, Carolyn E. Schwartz

• Erratum

Erratum to: Distilling the essence of appraisal: a mixed methods study of people with multiple sclerosis

Bruce D. Rapkin, Carolyn E. Schwartz

Comparison of interactive voice response (IVR) with paper administration of instruments to assess functional status, sexual function, and quality of life in elderly men

Raymond C. Rosen, Alisa J. Stephens-Shields, Glenn R. Cunningham, Denise Cifelli, David Cella, John T. Farrar, Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, Cora E. Lewis, Marco Pahor, Xiaoling Hou, Peter J. Snyder

Linkage between the PROMIS® pediatric and adult emotional distress measures

Bryce B. Reeve, David Thissen, Darren A. DeWalt, I-Chan Huang, Yang Liu, Brooke Magnus, Hally Quinn, Heather E. Gross, Pamela A. Kisala, Pengsheng Ni, Stephen Haley, M. J. Mulcahey, Susie Charlifue, Robin A. Hanks, Mary Slavin, Alan Jette, David S. Tulsky

A new internet-based tool for reporting and analysing patient-reported outcomes and the feasibility of repeated data collection from patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms

Nana Brochmann, Ann-Dorthe Zwisler, Mette Kjerholt, Esben Meulengracht Flachs, Hans Carl Hasselbalch, Christen Lykkegaard Andersen

Validation of an innovative instrument of Positive Oral Health and Well-Being (POHW)

Avraham Zini, Arndt Büssing, Cindy Chay, Victor Badner, Tamar Weinstock-Levin, Harold D. Sgan-Cohen, Philip Cochardt, Anton Friedmann, Karin Ziskind, Yuval Vered

• Open Access

Development and validation of a questionnaire assessing the perceived control in health care among older adults with care needs in the Netherlands

L. Claassens, C. B. Terwee, D. J. H. Deeg, M. I. Broese van Groenou, G. A. M. Widdershoven, M. Huisman

Assessment of the psychometric properties of the Chinese Impact of Vision Impairment questionnaire in a population-based study: findings from the Singapore Chinese Eye Study

Eva K. Fenwick, Peng Guan Ong, Charumathi Sabanayagam, Gwyn Rees, Jing Xie, Edith Holloway, Ching-Yu Cheng, Tien Y. Wong, Blanche Lim, Pok Chien Tan, Ecosse L. Lamoureux

• Brief Communication

Psychometric analysis of the Korean version of the high-dose chemotherapy specific quality of life questionnaire module from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC QLQ-HDC29)

Kyung Im Kim, Jae Hyun Kim, Eun Hee Ji, Jun Ho Jang, Jin Seok Kim, Ji-Hyun Kwon, Inho Kim, Seonyang Park, Galina Velikova, Sung-Soo Yoon, Jung Mi Oh

Mapping the EORTC QLQ-C30 onto the EQ-5D-3L: assessing the external validity of existing mapping algorithms

Brett Doble, Paula Lorgelly

• Open Access

Paving the way for the use of the SDQ in economic evaluations of school-based population health interventions: an empirical analysis of the external validity of SDQ mapping algorithms to the CHU9D in an educational setting

Nicole R. S. Boyer, Sarah Miller, Paul Connolly, Emma McIntosh

• Open Access

Predictive models to estimate utility from clinical questionnaires in schizophrenia: findings from EuroSC

Carole Siani, Christian de Peretti, Aurélie Millier, Laurent Boyer, Mondher Toumi

Generic and disease-specific estimates of quality of life in macular degeneration: mapping the MacDQoL onto the EQ-5D-3L

Padraig Dixon, Helen Dakin, Sarah Wordsworth

Mapping chronic liver disease questionnaire scores onto SF-6D utility values in patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis

Evangelos Kalaitzakis, Maria Benito de Valle, Monira Rahman, Björn Lindkvist, Einar Björnsson, Roger Chapman, Nick Kontodimopoulos

Perceived family functioning, adolescent psychopathology and quality of life in the general population: a 6-month follow-up study

Thomas Jozefiak, Jan L. Wallander

• Open Access

Association between nutritional status and subjective health status in chronically ill children attending special schools

Koen Joosten, Kelly van der Velde, Pieter Joosten, Hans Rutten, Jessie Hulst, Karolijn Dulfer

Is bad living better than good death? Impact of demographic and cultural factors on health state preference

Xuejing Jin, Gordon Guoen Liu, Nan Luo, Hongchao Li, Haijing Guan, Feng Xie

Insurance status and health-related quality-of-life disparities after trauma: results from a nationally representative survey in the US

Suliman Alghnam, Eric B. Schneider, Renan C. Castillo

• Open Access

Employment and insurance outcomes and factors associated with employment among long-term thyroid cancer survivors: a population-based study from the PROFILES registry

S. J. Tamminga, U. Bültmann, O. Husson, J. L. P. Kuijpens, M. H. W. Frings-Dresen, A. G. E. M. de Boer

Indicators of resilience and healthcare outcomes: findings from the 2010 health and retirement survey

Amara E. Ezeamama, Jennifer Elkins, Cherie Simpson, Shaniqua L. Smith, Joseph C. Allegra, Toni P. Miles

• Open Access

Long-term effects of goal disturbance and adjustment on well-being in cancer patients

Moniek Janse, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers, Adelita V. Ranchor, Joke Fleer

The roles of contextual and individual social determinants of oral health-related quality of life in Brazilian adults

Mario Vianna Vettore, Amal Aqeeli

The influence of the refractive correction on the vision-related quality of life in keratoconus patients

Sara Ortiz-Toquero, Sofia Perez, Guadalupe Rodriguez, Victoria de Juan, Agustin Mayo-Iscar, Raul Martin

• Brief Communication

Physical fitness is associated with anxiety levels in women with fibromyalgia: the al-Ándalus project

S. Córdoba-Torrecilla, V. A. Aparicio, A. Soriano-Maldonado, F. Estévez-López, V. Segura-Jiménez, I. Álvarez-Gallardo, P. Femia, M. Delgado-Fernández