Quality of Life Research

• Original Paper

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

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

• Original Paper

Predicting quality of life impairment in chronic schizophrenia from cognitive variables

Michael S. Ritsner

• Original Paper

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

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

• Original Paper

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

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

• Original Paper

Life satisfaction decreases during adolescence

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

• Original Paper

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

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

• Original Paper

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

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

• Original Paper

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

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

• Open Access
• Original Paper

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

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

• Original Paper

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

Laura Camfield, Danny Ruta

• Original Paper

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

Meryl Brod, Torsten Christensen, Donald Bushnell

• Original Paper

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

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

• Original Paper

Health related quality of life in different states of breast cancer

Mathias Lidgren, Nils Wilking, Bengt Jönsson, Clas Rehnberg

• Original Paper

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

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

• Book Review

Rod O’Connor: Measuring quality of life in health

Madeleine King

• Erratum

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

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