Quality of Life Research

Content validity of patient-reported outcome measures: perspectives from a PROMIS meeting

• Review

Susan Magasi, Gery Ryan, Dennis Revicki, William Lenderking, Ron D. Hays, Meryl Brod, Claire Snyder, Maarten Boers, David Cella

The effectiveness of psychosocial interventions designed to improve health-related quality of life (HRQOL) amongst asthmatic children and their families: a systematic review

• Review

Sally-Ann Clarke, Rachel Calam

Evaluating health-related quality-of-life therapeutic effectiveness in a clinical trial with extensive nonignorable missing data and heterogeneous response: results from a phase III randomized trial of gemcitabine plus paclitaxel versus paclitaxel monotherapy in patients with metastatic breast cancer

Carol M. Moinpour, Gary W. Donaldson, Astra M. Liepa, Allen S. Melemed, Joyce O’Shaughnessy, Kathy S. Albain

Common tongue conditions affect quality of life: an issue to be recognized

Aslı Hapa, Berna Aksoy, Umut Aslan, Nilgün Atakan

Coping and emotional distress during acute hospitalization in older persons with earlier trauma: the case of Holocaust survivors

Lee Kimron, Miri Cohen

ADHD burden of illness in older adults: a life course perspective

• Brief Communication

Meryl Brod, Eva Schmitt, Marc Goodwin, Paul Hodgkins, Gwendolyn Niebler

Capabilities and quality of life in Dutch psycho-geriatric nursing homes: an exploratory study using a proxy version of the ICECAP-O

• Open Access

Peter Makai, Werner B. F. Brouwer, Marc A. Koopmanschap, Anna P. Nieboer

Bodyweight, gender, and quality of life: a population-based longitudinal study

Rochelle E. Garner, David H. Feeny, Amanda Thompson, Julie Bernier, Bentson H. McFarland, Nathalie Huguet, Mark S. Kaplan, Heather Orpana, Nancy A. Ross, Chris Blanchard

Erratum to: Bodyweight, gender, and quality of life: a population-based longitudinal study

• Erratum

Rochelle E. Garner, David H. Feeny, Amanda Thompson, Julie Bernier, Bentson H. McFarland, Nathalie Huguet, Mark S. Kaplan, Heather Orpana, Nancy A. Ross, Chris Blanchard

What level of IBS symptoms drives impairment in health-related quality of life in community subjects with irritable bowel syndrome?

Natasha A. Koloski, Philip M. Boyce, Michael P. Jones, Nicholas J. Talley

Ten-year quality of life outcomes among patients with schizophrenia and schizoaffective disorders: I. Predictive value of disorder-related factors

Michael S. Ritsner, Alexander Lisker, Marina Arbitman

Assessing health-related quality-of-life changes in informal caregivers: an evaluation in parents of children with major congenital anomalies

• Open Access

Marten J. Poley, Werner B. F. Brouwer, N. Job A. van Exel, Dick Tibboel

Selection of items for a computer-adaptive test to measure fatigue in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: a Delphi approach

Stephanie Nikolaus, Christina Bode, Erik Taal, Mart A. F. J. vd Laar

Psychometric properties of the Chinese quality of life instrument (HK version) in Chinese and Western medicine primary care settings

• Open Access

Wendy Wong, Cindy Lo Kuen Lam, Kwok Fai Leung, Li Zhao

A comparison of the FACT-G and the Supportive Care Needs Survey (SCNS) in women with ovarian cancer: unidimensionality of constructs

B. Colagiuri, M. T. King, P. N. Butow, J. A. McGrane, T. Luckett, M. A. Price, D. P. Birney

Symptom assessment in ambulatory oncology: initial validation of the nurse-developed Modified Ambulatory Care Flow Sheet (MACFS)

Susan Horsman, Karin Olson, Heather Au, Sunita Ghosh

Reliability and validity of the Spanish version of the Child Health and Illness Profile Child-Edition/Child Report Form (CHIP-CE/CRF)

• Brief Communication

Maria-Dolors Estrada, Luis Rajmil, Michael Herdman, Vicky Serra-Sutton, Cristian Tebé, Jordi Alonso, Anne W. Riley, Christopher B. Forrest, Barbara Starfield

Comparing longitudinal assessments of quality of life by patient and parent in newly diagnosed children with cancer: the value of both raters’ perspectives

Susan K. Parsons, Diane L. Fairclough, Jim Wang, Pamela S. Hinds