Quality of Life Research

• Original Paper

Does an informative video before inguinal hernia surgical repair influence postoperative quality of life? Results of a prospective randomized study

Juergen Zieren, Charalambos Menenakos, Joachim M. Mueller

Quality-of-life outcome after hallux valgus surgery

Carlos Saro, Irene Jensen, Urban Lindgren, Li Felländer-Tsai

• Original Paper

Effectiveness of a psycho-educational intervention for reducing burden in latin american families of patients with schizophrenia

José Gutiérrez-Maldonado, Alejandra Caqueo-Urízar

• Brief Communication

The usefulness of the EQ-5D in differentiating among persons with major depressive episode and anxiety

Alison L. Supina, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Scott B. Patten, Jeanne V. A. Williams, Colleen J. Maxwell

• Original Paper

Relation between level or change of hemoglobin and generic and disease-specific quality of life measures in hemodialysis

Laura C. Plantinga, Nancy E. Fink, Bernard G. Jaar, I-Chan Huang, Albert W. Wu, Klemens B. Meyer, Neil R. Powe

• Original Paper

The OVIS study: health related quality of life measured by the EORTC QLQ-C30 and -BR23 in German female patients with breast cancer from Schleswig-Holstein

A. Waldmann, R. Pritzkuleit, H. Raspe, A. Katalinic

• Original Paper

The relationship between gender, social support, and health-related quality of life in a community-based study in Washington County, Maryland

Lisa Gallicchio, Sandra C. Hoffman, Kathy J. Helzlsouer

• Original Paper

Low level of quality of life in patients with mental and behavioral disorders wanting complementary and alternative (kampo) therapy

Kazuo Yamada

• Open Access
• Original Paper

Quality of life in couples living with Huntington’s disease: the role of patients’ and partners’ illness perceptions

A. A. Kaptein, M. Scharloo, D. I. Helder, L. Snoei, G. M. J. van Kempen, J. Weinman, J. C. van Houwelingen, R. A. C. Roos

• Original Paper

Mode effects in the center for epidemiologic studies depression (CES-D) scale: personal digital assistant vs. paper and pencil administration

Richard J. Swartz, Carl de Moor, Karon F. Cook, Rachel T. Fouladi, Karen Basen-Engquist, Cathy Eng, Cindy L. Carmack Taylor

• Original Paper

The mathematical relationship among different forms of responsiveness coefficients

G. R. Norman, Kathleen W. Wyrwich, Donald L. Patrick

• Original Paper

Measuring social difficulties in routine patient-centred assessment: a Rasch analysis of the social difficulties inventory

Adam B. Smith, Penny Wright, Peter Selby, Galina Velikova

• Original Paper

Content comparison of health-related quality of life measures used in stroke based on the international classification of functioning, disability and health (ICF): a systematic review

S. Geyh, A. Cieza, B. Kollerits, G. Grimby, G. Stucki

• Open Access
• Original Paper

Small-cell lung cancer patients are just ‘a little bit’ tired: response shift and self-presentation in the measurement of fatigue

Marjan J. Westerman, Anne-Mei The, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers, Harry J. M. Groen, Gerrit van der Wal, Tony Hak

• Original Paper

Parent-proxy and child self-reported health-related quality of life: using qualitative methods to explain the discordance

Elise Davis, Caroline Nicolas, Elizabeth Waters, Kay Cook, Lisa Gibbs, Angela Gosch, Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer

• Original Paper

Translation, cultural adaptation, cross-validation of the Turkish diabetes quality-of-life (DQOL) measure

Aysegul Yildirim, Fevzi Akinci, Hulya Gozu, Haluk Sargin, Ekrem Orbay, Mehmet Sargin

• Original Paper

Field testing of a European quality of life instrument for children and adolescents with chronic conditions: the 37-item DISABKIDS Chronic Generic Module

Marie-Claude Simeoni, Silke Schmidt, Holger Muehlan, David Debensason, Monika Bullinger

• Open Access
• Original Paper

Evaluating the discriminatory power of EQ-5D, HUI2 and HUI3 in a US general population survey using Shannon’s indices

Mathieu F. (Bas) Janssen, Erwin Birnie, Gouke J. Bonsel

• Erratum

Issues in conducting cross-cultural research: implementation of an agreed international protocol designed by the WHOQOL Group for the conduct of focus groups eliciting the quality of life of older adults

Graeme Hawthorne, Natasha Davidson, Kathryn Quinn, Farah McCrate, Ines Winkler, Ramona Lucas, Reinhold Kilian, Anita Molzahn

• Erratum

Quality of life, health status and clinical outcomes in Type 2 diabetes patients

Murali Sundaram, Jan Kavookjian, Julie Hicks Patrick, Lesley-Ann Miller, S. Suresh Madhavan, Virginia (Ginger) Scott

• Open Access
• Erratum

Health-related quality of life of firefighters and police officers 8.5 years after the air disaster in Amsterdam

Pauline Slottje, Jos W. R. Twisk, Nynke Smidt, Anja C. Huizink, Anke B. Witteveen, Willem van Mechelen, Tjabe Smid

• Erratum

Factor analysis techniques for assessing sufficient unidimensionality of cancer related fatigue

Jin-Shei Lai, Paul K. Crane, David Cella

• Erratum

Health-related quality of life among disease-free stomach cancer survivors in Korea

Jae-Moon Bae, Sung Kim, Young-Woo Kim, Keun Won Ryu, Jun Ho Lee, Jae-Hyung Noh, Tae-Sung Sohn, Seong-Kweon Hong, Sang Min Park, Chang Hoon You, Jung Hee Kim, Myung Kyung Lee, Young Ho Yun