Quality of Life Research

How to guarantee finding a statistically significant difference: the use and abuse of subgroup analyses

Peter M. Fayers, Madeleine T. King

Modification, translation and adaptation of questionnaires should copyright laws be observed?

Elizabeth F. Juniper

• Response

An 18-item AQLQ(S) model: a reply to Juniper

Eirini Grammatopoulou, Emmanouil Skordilis, Dimitra Koutsouki, George Baltopoulos

Quality of life assessment among haemodialysis patients in a single centre: a 2-year follow-up

Paulo R. Santos, Elizabeth F. Daher, Geraldo B. Silva Jr., Alexandre B. Libório, Ligia R. Kerr

Are gender-associated differences in quality of life in colorectal cancer patients disease-specific?

Johannes Giesinger, Georg Kemmler, Verena Mueller, August Zabernigg, Beate Mayrbaeurl, Josef Thaler, Dietmar Öfner, Christian Pegger, Gerhard Rumpold, Barbara Weber, Barbara Sperner-Unterweger, Bernhard Holzner

Life events and oral-health-related quality of life among young adults

David Simon Brennan, A. John Spencer

Questions never asked. Positive family outcomes of extremely premature childbirth

Hanne Lou, Birthe D. Pedersen, Morten Hedegaard

Self-rated health in persons with spinal cord injury: relationship of secondary conditions, function and health status

Gloria L. Krahn, Rie Suzuki, Willi Horner-Johnson

Measuring stigma across neurological conditions: the development of the stigma scale for chronic illness (SSCI)

Deepa Rao, Seung W. Choi, David Victorson, Rita Bode, Amy Peterman, Allen Heinemann, David Cella

Measuring the psychological consequences of breast cancer screening: a confirmatory factor analysis of the Psychological Consequences Questionnaire

Andrew Cooper, Helen Aucote

Psychometric evaluation of the WHOQOL-BREF in community-dwelling older people in Taiwan using Rasch analysis

Wen-Miin Liang, Chih-Hung Chang, Yi-Chun Yeh, Haw-Yaw Shy, Hung-Wei Chen, Mau-Roung Lin

Measurement equivalence of osteoporosis-specific and general quality-of-life instruments in Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women

Lisa M. Lix, Colleen Metge, William D. Leslie

Structure of the sense of coherence scale in a nationally representative sample: the Finnish Health 2000 survey

Eduardo Bernabé, Georgios Tsakos, Richard G. Watt, Anna L. Suominen-Taipale, Antti Uutela, Jussi Vahtera, Mika Kivimäki

Validation and calibration of the SF-36 health transition question against an external criterion of clinical change in health status

Stephanie A. Knox, Madeleine T. King

The value of adding the Quality of Life Enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire to outcome assessments of psychiatric inpatients with mood and affective disorders

Madeleine L. Hope, Andrew C. Page, Geoffrey R. Hooke

• Open Access

Alternative approaches to derive disability weights in injuries: do they make a difference?

Juanita A. Haagsma, S. Polinder, E. F. van Beeck, S. Mulder, G. J. Bonsel

• Erratum

The construct validity of the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 in assessing mental health in population health surveys

David Feeny, Nathalie Huguet, Bentson H. McFarland, Mark S. Kaplan