Quality of Life Research

Evaluation of a Multi-disciplinary Back Pain Rehabilitation Programme—Individual and Group Perspectives

Andrew Baird, Lisa Worral, Cheryl Haslam, Roger Haslam

Improving quality of life using compound mind-body therapies: evaluation of a course intervention with body movement and breath therapy, guided imagery, chakra experiencing and mindfulness meditation

Lotta Fernros, Anna-Karin Furhoff, Per E. Wändell

The effects of exercise training on quality of life in HAART-treated HIV-positive Rwandan subjects with body fat redistribution

Eugene Mutimura, Aimee Stewart, Nigel J. Crowther, Kevin E. Yarasheski, W. Todd Cade

Trajectory and determinants of the quality of life of family caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients in Taiwan

Siew Tzuh Tang, Chung-Yi Li, Cheryl Chia-Hui Chen

Impact of oral health status on oral health-related quality of life in Chinese hospitalised geriatric patients

Doris S. F. Yu, Diana T. F. Lee, Athena W. L. Hong, Tak Yin Lau, Edward M. F. Leung

Physical activity, quality of life, and weight status in overweight children

Jo Ann Shoup, Michelle Gattshall, Padma Dandamudi, Paul Estabrooks

The SF-36 scales are not accurately summarised by independent physical and mental component scores

Mark Hann, David Reeves

Aggregated measures of functional disability in a nationally representative sample of disabled people: analysis of dimensionality according to gender and severity of disability

Julio Cabrero-García, José Antonio López-Pina

Validation of the French version of the colorectal-specific quality-of-life questionnaires EORTC QLQ-CR38 and FACT-C

Christine Rotonda, T. Conroy, M. Mercier, F. Bonnetain, L. Uwer, J. Miny, P. Montcuquet, I. Léonard, A. Adenis, G. Breysacher, F. Guillemin

• Brief Communication

The adaptation into Spanish of the Coddington Life Events Scales (CLES)

E. Villalonga-Olives, J. M. Valderas, J. A. Palacio-Vieira, M. Herdman, L. Rajmil, J. Alonso

The validity of generic and condition-specific preference-based instruments: the ability to discriminate asthma control status

Helen M. McTaggart-Cowan, Carlo A. Marra, Yaling Yang, John E. Brazier, Jacek A. Kopec, J. Mark FitzGerald, Aslam H. Anis, Larry D. Lynd

• Open Access

Quantification of the level descriptors for the standard EQ-5D three-level system and a five-level version according to two methods

M. F. Janssen, E. Birnie, G. J. Bonsel

EuroQol EQ-5D and condition-specific measures of health outcome in women with urinary incontinence: reliability, validity and responsiveness

Kirstie L. Haywood, Andrew M. Garratt, Ranjit Lall, Jan Fereday Smith, Sarah E. Lamb

Comparing preference-based quality-of-life measures: results from rehabilitation patients with musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, or psychosomatic disorders

Joern Moock, Thomas Kohlmann