Quality of Life Research

• Editorial

Mixing methods and blending paradigms: some considerations for future research

Carolyn E. Schwartz, Dennis A. Revicki

• Commentary

Best practices in mixed methods for quality of life research

Ann C. Klassen, John Creswell, Vicki L. Plano Clark, Katherine Clegg Smith, Helen I. Meissner

Understanding appraisal processes underlying the thentest: a mixed methods investigation

Carolyn E. Schwartz, Bruce A. Rapkin

A mixed methods approach to adapting health-related quality of life measures for use in routine oncology clinical practice

Clare Harley, Elena Takeuchi, Sally Taylor, Ada Keding, Kate Absolom, Julia Brown, Galina Velikova

Palliative care outcomes in surgical oncology patients with advanced malignancies: a mixed methods approach

Gwenyth R. Wallen, Karen Baker, Marilyn Stolar, Claiborne Miller-Davis, Nancy Ames, Jan Yates, Jacques Bolle, Donna Pereira, Diane St. Germain, Daniel Handel, Ann Berger

• Open Access

Developing a model of participation post-stroke: a mixed-methods approach

Ruth Barclay-Goddard, Jacquie Ripat, Nancy E. Mayo

Quality of life and leisure participation in children with neurodevelopmental disabilities: a thematic analysis of the literature

Noemi Dahan-Oliel, Keiko Shikako-Thomas, Annette Majnemer

Applying mixed methods to pretest the Pressure Ulcer Quality of Life (PU-QOL) instrument

C. Gorecki, D. L. Lamping, J. Nixon, J. M. Brown, S. Cano

Measuring outcomes in Parkinson’s disease: a multi-perspective concept mapping study

Catharina Sjödahl Hammarlund, Maria H. Nilsson, Peter Hagell

Using mixed methods research to explore the effect of an adaptation exercise on general population valuations of health states

Helen M. McTaggart-Cowan, Alicia O’Cathain, Aki Tsuchiya, John E. Brazier

Neuro-QOL: quality of life item banks for adults with neurological disorders: item development and calibrations based upon clinical and general population testing

Richard C. Gershon, Jin Shei Lai, Rita Bode, Seung Choi, Claudia Moy, Tom Bleck, Deborah Miller, Amy Peterman, David Cella

The inclusion of ‘then-test’ questions in post-test questionnaires alters post-test responses: a randomized study of bias in health program evaluation

Sandra Nolte, Gerald R. Elsworth, Andrew J. Sinclair, Richard H. Osborne

Correlates of quality of life in China rural–urban female migrate workers

Chun-Yan Zhu, Jia-Ji Wang, Xian-Hua Fu, Zhi-Heng Zhou, Jing Zhao, Cai-Xia Wang

Psychosocial factors and health as determinants of quality of life in community-dwelling older adults

Caroline E. Brett, Alan J. Gow, Janie Corley, Alison Pattie, John M. Starr, Ian J. Deary

Dyadic effects of fear of recurrence on the quality of life of cancer survivors and their caregivers

Youngmee Kim, Charles S. Carver, Rachel L. Spillers, Melissa Love-Ghaffari, Chiew-Kwei Kaw

Factors associated with quality of life in older adults in the United States

Marianne Baernholdt, Ivora Hinton, Guofen Yan, Karen Rose, Meghan Mattos

The impact of menopause on health-related quality of life: results from the STRIDE longitudinal study

Rachel Hess, Rebecca C. Thurston, Ron D. Hays, Chung-Chou H. Chang, Stacey N. Dillon, Roberta B. Ness, Cindy L. Bryce, Wishwa N. Kapoor, Karen A. Matthews

Asthma-like symptoms in the first year of life and health-related quality of life at age 12 months: the Generation R study

Ashna D. Mohangoo, Harry J. de Koning, Johan C. de Jongste, Jeanne M. Landgraf, Johannes C. van der Wouden, Vincent W. V. Jaddoe, Albert Hofman, Henriette A. Moll, Johan P. Mackenbach, Hein Raat