Quality of Life Research

• Review

Health-related quality of life among children, adolescents, and adults with bladder exstrophy–epispadias complex: a systematic review of the literature and recommendations for future research

Michaela Dellenmark-Blom, Sofia Sjöström, Kate Abrahamsson, Gundela Holmdahl

• Review

Health-related quality of life among adults living with diabetic foot ulcers: a meta-analysis

Saneh Khunkaew, Ritin Fernandez, Jenny Sim

• Open Access

ICECAP-O, the current state of play: a systematic review of studies reporting the psychometric properties and use of the instrument over the decade since its publication

Louise Proud, Carol McLoughlin, Philip Kinghorn

Leveraging Latent Dirichlet Allocation in processing free-text personal goals among patients undergoing bladder cancer surgery

Yuelin Li, Bruce Rapkin, Thomas M. Atkinson, Elizabeth Schofield, Bernard H. Bochner

Prevalence of mental health conditions and pain in adults with skeletal dysplasia

Sarah E. Jennings, Colleen P. Ditro, Michael B. Bober, William G. Mackenzie, Kenneth J. Rogers, Laura Conway, Angela L. Duker

Using health-related quality of life to predict cardiovascular disease events

Laura C. Pinheiro, Evgeniya Reshetnyak, Madeline R. Sterling, Joshua S. Richman, Lisa M. Kern, Monika M. Safford

Health-related quality of life in hepatitis C patients who achieve sustained virological response to direct-acting antivirals: a comparison with the general population

Regina Juanbeltz, Jesús Castilla, Iván Martínez-Baz, Aisling O’Leary, Maite Sarobe, Ramón San Miguel

Modality transition on renal replacement therapy and quality of life of patients: a 10-year follow-up cohort study

Daniela Cristina Sampaio de Brito, Elaine Leandro Machado, Ilka Afonso Reis, Daniela Pena Moreira, Thiago Henrique Mascarenhas Nébias, Mariângela Leal Cherchiglia

• Open Access

Meeting physical activity recommendations is associated with health-related quality of life in women before and after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery

Fanny Sellberg, Sofie Possmark, Mikaela Willmer, Per Tynelius, Margareta Persson, Daniel Berglind

The effects of clinical illness severity and physical activity on health-related quality of life in schizophrenia

Mei San Ang, Milawaty Nurjono, Jimmy Lee

• Open Access

Diversity in changes of HRQoL over a 1-year period after radiotherapy in Norwegian breast cancer patients: results of cluster analyses

Magdalena Anna Lazarewicz, Dorota Wlodarczyk, Steinar Lundgren, Randi Johansen Reidunsdatter

The combined polymorphisms of interleukin-6-174GG genotype and interleukin-10 ATA haplotype are associated with a poor quality of life in patients with chronic hepatitis C

Diego Alves Vieira, Luciana Rodrigues da Cunha, Cliviany Borges da Silva, Maria Thereza Bastos Almeida, Adriana Dias Gomes, César Lúcio Lopes de Faria Jr., Rosângela Teixeira, Fernando Silva Neves, Gifone Aguiar Rocha, Fabrício Freire de Melo, Dulciene Maria de Magalhães Queiroz, Luciana Diniz Silva

• Open Access

A pilot study on aesthetic treatments performed by qualified aesthetic practitioners: efficacy on health-related quality of life in breast cancer patients

Serena Oliveri, Flavia Faccio, Silvia Pizzoli, Dario Monzani, Carolina Redaelli, Mirella Indino, Gabriella Pravettoni

Psychosocial measures and weight change in a clinical paediatric population with obesity

Brooke E. Harcourt, Anke Pons, Kung-Ting Kao, Celia Twindyakirana, Erin Alexander, Sarah Haberle, Zoe McCallum, Matthew A. Sabin

• Open Access

Association of nutritional status and health-related quality of life in children with chronic kidney disease

Matthew Harmer, Stephen Wootton, Rodney Gilbert, Caroline Anderson

Advancing the use of patient-reported outcomes in practice: understanding challenges, opportunities, and the potential of health information technology

Chun-Ju Hsiao, Christine Dymek, Bryan Kim, Brigid Russell

Patient versus proxy response on global health scales: no meaningful DIFference

Brittany R. Lapin, Nicolas R. Thompson, Andrew Schuster, Irene L. Katzan

Multidimensionality of the PROMIS self-efficacy measure for managing chronic conditions

Mi Jung Lee, Sergio Romero, Craig A. Velozo, Ann L. Gruber-Baldini, Lisa M. Shulman

Psychometric properties and correlates of a brief scale measuring the psychological construct mattering to others in a sample of women recovering from breast cancer

Samantha M. Davis, Stephen J. Lepore, Levent Dumenci

Measuring fatigue in cancer patients: a common metric for six fatigue instruments

Michael Friedrich, Andreas Hinz, Susanne Kuhnt, Thomas Schulte, Matthias Rose, Felix Fischer

Supporting construct validity of the Evaluation of Daily Activity Questionnaire using Linear Logistic Test Models

Núria Duran Adroher, Alan Tennant

Comprehensive validation of the functional assessment of anorexia/cachexia therapy (FAACT) anorexia/cachexia subscale (A/CS) in lung cancer patients with involuntary weight loss

Heather L. Gelhorn, Katharine S. Gries, Rebecca M. Speck, Elizabeth M. Duus, Richard K. Bourne, Dimple Aggarwal, David Cella

• Open Access

Development and validation of the caregiver roles and responsibilities scale in cancer caregivers

Valerie Shilling, Rachel Starkings, Valerie Jenkins, David Cella, Lesley Fallowfield

Psychometric properties of the Mandarin Chinese version of the KIDSCREEN-52 health-related quality of life questionnaire in adolescents: a cross-sectional study

Yuhang Zhu, Juan Li, Shanju Hu, Xiaoxue Li, Di Wu, Shuai Teng

Nonrestorative sleep scale: reliable and valid for the Chinese population

S. Li, D. Y. T. Fong, J. Y. H. Wong, K. Wilkinson, C. Shapiro, E. P. H. Choi, B. McPherson, C. L. K. Lam, M. S. M. Ip

• Correction

Correction to: The impact of caregiver’s role preference on decisional conflicts and psychiatric distresses in decision making to help caregiver’s disclosure of terminal disease status

Shin Hye Yoo, Young Ho Yun, Kyoung-Nam Kim, Jung Lim Lee, Jeanno Park, Youn Seon Choi, Yeun Keun Lim, Samyong Kim, Hyun Sik Jeong, Jung Hun Kang, Ho-Suk Oh, Ji Chan Park, Si-Young Kim, Hong Suk Song, Keun Seok Lee, Dae Seog Heo, Young Seon Hong