Quality of Life Research

Temporal changes in the causal foundations of palliative care symptoms

Leslie Hayduk, Karin Olson, Hue Quan, Marilyn Cree, Ying Cui

Quality of life predicts one-year survival in patients with implantable cardioverter defibrillators

Chi-Wen Kao, Erika Friedmann, Sue A. Thomas

• Brief Communication

Socio-demographic and clinical determinants of quality of life in Chinese patients with schizophrenia: a prospective study

Yu-Tao Xiang, Chuan-Yue Wang, Ying Wang, Helen F. K. Chiu, Jing-Ping Zhao, Qi Chen, Sandra S. M. Chan, Edwin H. M. Lee, Gabor S. Ungvari

Exploring the impact of changes in neurogenic urinary incontinence frequency and condition-specific quality of life on preference-based outcomes

William Hollingworth, Jonathan D. Campbell, Jonathan Kowalski, Arliene Ravelo, Isabelle Girod, Andrew Briggs, Sean D. Sullivan

Habitual physical activity and health-related quality of life in older adults: interactions between the amount and intensity of activity (the Nakanojo Study)

Yukitoshi Aoyagi, Hyuntae Park, Sungjin Park, Roy J. Shephard

Are youth BMI and physical activity associated with better or worse than expected health-related quality of life in adulthood? The Physical Activity Longitudinal Study

Katya M. Herman, Wilma M. Hopman, Cora L. Craig

Relationship of quality of life to dispositional optimism, health locus of control and self-efficacy in older subjects living in different environments

Tomasz Kostka, Violetta Jachimowicz

• Open Access

Functional abdominal complaints in pre-school children: parental reports of health-related quality of life

R. Oostenbrink, H. Jongman, J. M. Landgraf, H. Raat, H. A. Moll

Assessing the use of health-related quality of life measures in the routine clinical care of lung-transplant patients

Maria-Jose Santana, David Feeny, Jeffrey A. Johnson, Finlay A. McAlister, Daniel Kim, Justin Weinkauf, Dale C. Lien

Factors determining utility measured with the EQ-5D in patients with atrial fibrillation

Jenny Berg, Peter Lindgren, Robby Nieuwlaat, Olivier Bouin, Harry Crijns

Preference values associated with stage III colon cancer and adjuvant chemotherapy

Jennie H. Best, Louis P. Garrison, William Hollingworth, Scott D. Ramsey, David L. Veenstra

Initial development of the Temporary Utilities Index: a multiattribute system for classifying the functional health impact of diagnostic testing

J. Shannon Swan, Jun Ying, James Stahl, Chung Yin Kong, Beverly Moy, Jessica Roy, Elkan Halpern

Creating and using the CDC HRQOL healthy days index with fixed option survey responses

Keith John Zullig

Psychometric properties of the EQ-5D in a study of people with mild to moderate dementia

Simone Kunz

Psychometric comparisons of the Stroke Impact Scale 3.0 and Stroke-Specific Quality of Life Scale

Keh-Chung Lin, Tiffany Fu, Ching-Yi Wu, Yu-Wei Hsieh, Chia-Ling Chen, Pei-Chin Lee

Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric validation of a Spanish version of the Quality of Life in Late-Stage Dementia Scale

Josep Garre-Olmo, Xènia Planas-Pujol, Secundino López-Pousa, Myron F. Weiner, Antoni Turon-Estrada, Dolors Juvinyà, David Ballester, Joan Vilalta-Franch