Quality of Life Research

• Open Access

Enhancing validity, reliability and participation in self-reported health outcome measurement for children and young people: a systematic review of recall period, response scale format, and administration modality

L. Coombes, K. Bristowe, C. Ellis-Smith, J. Aworinde, L. K. Fraser, J. Downing, M. Bluebond-Langner, L. Chambers, F. E. M. Murtagh, R. Harding

Study objectives in clinical trials in older patients with solid malignancies: do we measure what matters?

E. R. M. Scheepers, L. H. van Huis-Tanja, M. H. Emmelot-Vonk, M. E. Hamaker

Trajectories of health-related quality of life in children of parents with mental health problems: results of the BELLA study

Angela Plass-Christl, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, Heike Hölling, Christiane Otto

Mental component of health-related quality of life is an independent predictor of incident functional disability among community-dwelling older people: a prospective cohort study

Kimiko Tomioka, Midori Shima, Keigo Saeki

Quality of life after hospitalization predicts one-year readmission risk in a large Swiss cohort of medical in-patients

Tristan Struja, Daniel Koch, Sebastian Haubitz, Beat Mueller, Philipp Schuetz, Timo Siepmann

Moving beyond family: unequal burden across mental health patients’ social networks

Lambert Zixin Li, Jason Yucheng Bian, Senhu Wang

Social support and quality of life among rural family caregivers of persons with severe mental illness in Sichuan Province, China: mediating roles of care burden and loneliness

Baiyang Zhang, Kyaien O. Conner, Hongdao Meng, Naidan Tu, Danping Liu, Yeli Chen

Comparison of the anxiety, depression and their relationship to quality of life among adult acute leukemia patients and their family caregivers: a cross-sectional study in China

Ying Wang, Jie Yan, JingYi Chen, ChunFeng Wang, YingChun Lin, Yong Wu, Rong Hu

Depression and anxiety in cancer patients before and during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: association with treatment delays

Ozgen Ahmet Yildirim, Kerem Poyraz, Erkan Erdur

• Open Access

The association between social isolation and musculoskeletal health in older community-dwelling adults: findings from the Hertfordshire Cohort Study

Gregorio Bevilacqua, Karen A. Jameson, Jean Zhang, Ilse Bloom, Kate A. Ward, Cyrus Cooper, Elaine M. Dennison

• Open Access

The impact of clinical symptoms and endoscopic and histologic disease activity on health-related quality of life in patients with ulcerative colitis following treatment with multimatrix mesalazine

Aaron Yarlas, Mary Kaye Willian, Arpita Nag

• Open Access

Effectiveness of motivational interviewing on anxiety, depression, sleep quality and quality of life in heart failure patients: secondary analysis of the MOTIVATE-HF randomized controlled trial

Paola Rebora, Valentina Spedale, Giuseppe Occhino, Michela Luciani, Rosaria Alvaro, Ercole Vellone, Barbara Riegel, Davide Ausili

The prediction of mortality by quality of life assessed with the WHOQOL-BREF: a longitudinal analysis at the domain and item levels using a seven-year follow-up period

Robbert J. J. Gobbens, Tjeerd van der Ploeg

The association between diabetic complications and health-related quality of life in patients with type 2 diabetes: a cross-sectional study from Iran

Hassan Karami, Maryam Shirvani Shiri, Aziz Rezapour, Ranaa Sarvari Mehrabadi, Somayeh Afshari

• Open Access

What’s important when caring for a loved one? Population-based preference weights for the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit for informal carers (ASCOT-Carer) for Austria

Birgit Trukeschitz, Assma Hajji, Laurie Batchelder, Eirini Saloniki, Ismo Linnosmaa, Juliette Malley

• Open Access

Willingness to pay for a quality-adjusted life year for depressive disorders compared to heart disease based on population preferences

Laura Ulbrich, Christoph Kröger

• Open Access

Valuation of the EQ-5D-3L in Russia

Vitaly Omelyanovskiy, Nuriya Musina, Svetlana Ratushnyak, Tatiana Bezdenezhnykh, Vlada Fediaeva, Bram Roudijk, Fredrick Dermawan Purba

• Open Access

Dutch utility weights for the EORTC cancer-specific utility instrument: the Dutch EORTC QLU-C10D

Femke Jansen, Irma M. Verdonck-de Leeuw, Eva Gamper, Richard Norman, Bernhard Holzner, Madeleine King, Georg Kemmler

Health state utility and quality of life measures in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia in France

Foulon S, Cony-Makhoul P, Guerci-Bresler A, Daban M, Kapso R, Tubert-Bitter P, Bonastre J

• Open Access

Health state utilities associated with treatment process for oral and injectable GLP-1 receptor agonists for type 2 diabetes

Louis S. Matza, Katelyn N. Cutts, Katie D. Stewart, Kirsi Norrbacka, Luis-Emilio García-Pérez, Kristina S. Boye

Comparing the measurement properties of the EQ-5D-5L and the EQ-5D-3L in hypertensive patients living in rural China

Jie Jiang, Yanming Hong, Tiantian Zhang, Zhihao Yang, Tengfei Lin, Zhuoru Liang, Peiyao Lu, Lishun Liu, Binyan Wang, Yongmei Xu, Nan Luo

• Open Access

Psychometric properties of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS®) pediatric item bank peer relationships in the Dutch general population

Michiel A. J. Luijten, Raphaële R. L. van Litsenburg, Caroline B. Terwee, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Lotte Haverman

Agreement between proxy- and self-report scores on PROMIS health-related quality of life domains in pediatric burn survivors: a National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research Burn Model System Study

Alyssa M. Bamer, Kara McMullen, Steven E. Wolf, Barclay T. Stewart, Lewis Kazis, Camerin A. Rencken, Dagmar Amtmann

• Open Access

How to measure fluctuating impairments in people with MS: development of an ambulatory assessment version of the EQ-5D-5L in an exploratory study

Christine Blome, Jill Carlton, Christoph Heesen, Mathieu F. Janssen, Andrew Lloyd, Marina Otten, John Brazier

• Open Access

The role of response domain and scale label in the quantitative interpretation of patient-reported outcome measure response options

Tessa Peasgood, Jen-Yu Chang, Robina Mir, Clara Mukuria, Philip A. Powell