Quality of Life Research

Effect of trauma on quality of life as mediated by mental distress and moderated by coping and social support among postconflict displaced Ethiopians

• Original Paper

Mesfin Araya, Jayanti Chotai, Ivan H. Komproe, Joop T. V. M. de Jong

Predicting quality of life impairment in chronic schizophrenia from cognitive variables

• Original Paper

Michael S. Ritsner

Sense of coherence predicts change in life satisfaction among home-living residents in the community with mental health problems: a 1-year follow-up study

• Original Paper

Eva Langeland, Astrid K. Wahl, Kjell Kristoffersen, Monica W. Nortvedt, Berit R. Hanestad

Fatigue in breast cancer survivors two to five years post diagnosis: a HEAL Study report

Kathleen Meeske, Ashley Wilder Smith, Catherine M. Alfano, Bonnie A. McGregor, Anne McTiernan, Kathy B. Baumgartner, Kathleen E. Malone, Bryce B. Reeve, Rachel Ballard-Barbash, Leslie Bernstein

A further investigation of health-related quality of life over time among men with HIV infection in the HAART era

• Original Paper

Huanguang Jia, Constance R. Uphold, Yu Zheng, Samuel Wu, G. John Chen, Kimberly Findley, Pamela W. Duncan

Life satisfaction decreases during adolescence

• Original Paper

Lutz Goldbeck, Tim G. Schmitz, Tanja Besier, Peter Herschbach, Gerhard Henrich

Differential item functioning impact in a modified version of the Roland–Morris Disability Questionnaire

• Original Paper

Paul K. Crane, Karynsa Cetin, Karon F. Cook, Kurt Johnson, Richard Deyo, Dagmar Amtmann

Cultural adaptation and application of the IBS–QOL in China: a disease-specific quality-of-life questionnaire

Wen-wei Huang, Fu-sheng Zhou, Donald M. Bushnell, Chiaka Diakite, Xiao-huan Yang

Psychometric properties of the Minnesota Living with Heart Failure—Brazilian version—in the elderly

• Original Paper

Izabel C. R. S. Saccomann, Fernanda A. Cintra, Maria Cecília B. J. Gallani

Responsiveness to change to change due to supportive-expressive group therapy, improvement in mood and disease progression in women with metastatic breast cancer

• Original Paper

Julie Lemieux, Dorcas E. Beaton, Sheilah Hogg-Johnson, Louise J. Bordeleau, Jon Hunter, Pamela J. Goodwin

Validity, reliability and clinical relevance of EORTC QLQ-C30 and LC13 in patients with chest malignancies in a palliative setting

Mercedes Nicklasson, Bengt Bergman

Measurement of overall quality of life in nursing homes through self-report: the role of cognitive impairment

• Open Access
• Original Paper

Debby Lydia Gerritsen, Nardi Steverink, Marcel E. Ooms, Henrica C. W. de Vet, Miel W. Ribbe

‘Translation is not enough’: using the Global Person Generated Index (GPGI) to assess individual quality of life in Bangladesh, Thailand, and Ethiopia

• Original Paper

Laura Camfield, Danny Ruta

Maximizing the value of validation findings to better understand treatment satisfaction issues for diabetes

• Original Paper

Meryl Brod, Torsten Christensen, Donald Bushnell

US and UK versions of the EQ-5D preference weights: Does choice of preference weights make a difference?

• Original Paper

I-Chan Huang, Richard J. Willke, Mark J. Atkinson, William R. Lenderking, Constantine Frangakis, Albert W. Wu

Health related quality of life in different states of breast cancer

• Original Paper

Mathias Lidgren, Nils Wilking, Bengt Jönsson, Clas Rehnberg

Reliability, validity, and minimally important differences of the SF-6D in systemic sclerosis

• Original Paper

Dinesh Khanna, Daniel E. Furst, Weng Kee Wong, Joel Tsevat, Philip J. Clements, Grace S. Park, Arnold E. Postlethwaite, Mansoor Ahmed, Shaari Ginsburg, Ron D. Hays

Rod O’Connor: Measuring quality of life in health

• Book Review

Madeleine King

Factors associated with health-related quality of life among hemodialysis patients in the DOPPS

• Erratum

Antonio Alberto Lopes, Jennifer L. Bragg-Gresham, David A. Goodkin, Shunichi Fukuhara, Donna L. Mapes, Eric W. Young, Brenda W. Gillespie, Tadao Akizawa, Roger N. Greenwood, Vittorio E. Andreucci, Takashi Akiba, Philip J. Held, Friedrich K. Port