... assess any new or ongoing AEs Health- relatedqualityoflifeand medication satisfaction measures As secondary objectives of this study, caregiver -reported HRQL and medication satisfaction were ... Morse R: A review of measures ofqualityoflife for children with chronic illness Arch Dis Child 2001, 84:205-211 Connolly MA, Johnson JA: Measuring qualityoflife in pediatric patients Pharmacoeconomics ... to reduced frequency or severity of symptoms; however, these treatments may not directly translate to improvements in the patient' s health- relatedqualityoflife (HRQL) at home, at school, or...
... promotion of healthier lifestyles and improved access and affordability ofhealth care Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLifeOutcomes 2008, 6:49 and medications ... HealthandQualityofLifeOutcomes 2008, 6:49 Background Two overarching US Healthy People 2010 objectives are "to increase qualityand years of healthy life, " and "to eliminate health ... activity and health- relatedqualityoflife Exerc Sport Sci Rev 1996, 24:71-108 Dominick KL, Ahern FM, Gold CH, Heller DA: Health- relatedqualityoflife among older adults with arthritis Health...
... GJ: Health- relatedqualityoflifeof patients receiving extended-release tolterodine for overactive bladder Am J Manag Care 2002, 8(19 Suppl):S608-S615 Homma Y, Kawabe K: Health- relatedquality ... Relationships between improvements in symptoms andpatient assessments of bladder condition, symptom bother and health- relatedqualityoflife in patients with overactive bladder treated with ... regarding the level of bother and the impact of urinary symptoms on HRQL [33] ER: extended release; HRQL: health- relatedqualityof life; ICS: International Continence Society; KHQ: King's Health Questionnaire;...
... group We measured health- relatedqualityoflife (HRQOL) using the Finnish version of the RAND 36-Item Health Survey 1.0 (RAND-36) [15] This self -reported measure is composed of eight separate ... concerning the qualityoflifeof AGA subjects are somewhat difficult to compare with our results because of methodological and other differences, such as age, limited criteria ofqualityoflifeand the ... use of bootstrap methods for analysing health- relatedqualityoflifeoutcomes (particularly the SF-36) Health Qual LifeOutcomes 2004, 2:70 Pi-Sunyer FX: The obesity epidemic: pathophysiology and...
... al.: Health- relatedqualityoflifeand selfrelated health in patients with type diabetes: Effects of group-based rehabilitation versus individual counselling HealthandQualityofLifeOutcomes ... Vadstrup et al HealthandQualityofLifeOutcomes 2011, 9:110 http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/110 assessment of health- relatedqualityoflife (HRQOL) in type diabetes An increasing number of type ... constraints and disappointment with randomisation and lost questionnaires Vadstrup et al HealthandQualityofLifeOutcomes 2011, 9:110 http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/110 Page of Table SF-36 outcomes...
... into account the variables age and education Methods Measure of health- relatedqualityoflife We used the Short Form Health Survey (SF-36) to measure the qualityoflife This is a well-known general ... Lionis C, Johansson S, Wallander MA, Faresjo T: Health- relatedqualityoflifeof irritable bowel syndrome patients in different cultural settings Health Qual LifeOutcomes 2006, 4:21 Kaldi AR: ... (76%) Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLifeOutcomes 2007, 5:60 http://www.hqlo.com/content/5/1/60 were higher among Iranians in Sweden and Swedes (120 and 102,...
... Physicians' knowledge of health- relatedqualityoflifeand perception of its importance in daily clinical practice HealthandQualityofLifeOutcomes 2010, 8:43 Page of ... on health- related QoL could lead to a growing use of QoL measures in daily clinical practice, possibly increasing also the qualityof clinical care Bossola et al HealthandQualityofLifeOutcomes ... AD, Comis R, Taylor KM: Oncologist' use ofqualityoflife information Results of a survey of eastern Cooperative Oncology Group Physicians QualityofLife Res 2001, 10:1-13 Nucifora G, Badano...
... correlated with the duration of pain Tjakkes et al HealthandQualityofLifeOutcomes 2010, 8:46 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/46 Page of Table 2: SF-36 and GHQ scores in three groups of orofacial ... status and health- relatedqualityof life: a systematic review J Oral Sci 2006, 48:1-7 10 Reisine ST, Weber J: The effects of temporomandibular joint disorders on patients' qualityoflife Comm ... validation of a short form of the Oral Health Impact Profile for temporomandibular disorders Comm Dent Oral Epid 2005, 33:123-130 13 John MT, Reissman DR, Schierz O: Oral health- relatedqualityof life...
... physical, psychological and social health, which is summarized as health- relatedqualityoflife (HRQL) [19], are commonly reportedQualityoflife is a highly subjective item and, as indicated by ... examples of the eight health categories of SF-36 Two examples of the eight health categories of SF-36 Values of two prototype patients at beginning (pre) and end (post), as well as (fup1), (fup2), and ... of the eight health categories of SF-36 [18] Demonstration of the eight health categories of SF-36 [18] Average values at beginning (pre) and at completion (post) as well as (fup1), (fup2), and...
... patients’ health- relatedqualityoflifeand their self-rated health Most often, evaluation of diabetes interventions assess effects on glycemic control with little consideration ofqualityof ... health- relatedqualityoflifeand their self-rated health People with diabetes experience a decreased qualityoflife compared with people with no chronic illness but a better qualityoflife ... presence of two or more diabetes -related complications is associated with worsened qualityoflife [2] and lower scores ofqualityoflife is associated with greater severity of complications for patients...
... degree of dyspnoea [6] There is also evidence for an association with healthrelated qualityoflife (HRQL) in terms of disease-specific [7,8] or generic measures [7,9] Intuitively, self -reported health- status ... Markstrom A, Sundell K, Lysdahl M, Andersson G, Schedin U, Klang B: Quality- of- life evaluation of patients with neuromuscular and skeletal diseases treated with noninvasive and invasive home mechanical ... might be useful for the assessment and routine monitoring of patients with CHRF, rendering the picture of impaired health more precise through inclusion of the patients' perception Abbreviations...
... Krikorian CJ: Impact of chronic cough on qualityoflife Arch Intern Med 1998, 158:1657-1661 Ma W: The changes in health- relatedqualityoflifeand their clinical significances in patients with chronic ... manuscript, YW, XL and HL took part in the collection of cases and review of the manuscript, ZQ was in charge of design and coordination of the program, review and correction of the manuscript ... dysfunction, thereby having a profound adverse impact on qualityoflife [3] With quantitative or semi-quantitative methods, the changes in the health- relatedqualityoflife (HRQOL) provoked by cough...
... persistent physical and psychological symptoms (dyspnoea, fatigue and depression), impaired functional status (physical, social and emotional function) and reduced health- relatedqualityoflife (HRQoL) ... research were to assess patient' s qualityoflife at 28 days, and 3, and months after treatment with APC, and to compare these data with those from a similar cohort of patients who did not receive ... both the patientand next of kin was obtained To avoid an imbalance between APC and standard care patients from each site, each participating site enrolled in blocks of three APC and six standard...
... the emotional, social, and physical well-being of patients and hence their health- relatedqualityoflife (HR-QoL) [6] HR-QoL has received increasing attention in children and adolescents with ... MN, Shorr JM, Johnston JA: Impact of atomoxetine on health- relatedqualityoflifeand functional status in patients with ADHD Expert Rev Pharmacoeconomics Outcomes Res 2006, 6(4):379-390 Brown ... children and adolescents in treatment response to atomoxetine and the correlation between health- relatedqualityoflifeand Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder core symptoms: Meta-analysis of...
... Wichstrøm L, Mattejat F, Ravens-Sieberer U: Qualityoflife as reported by school children and their parents: a cross-sectional survey HealthandQualityofLifeOutcomes 2008, 6:34-45 29 Mattejat F, ... score of ≥30% and a secondary response as a reduction in score of ≥ 20% Parents were asked to consider the patient s behaviour during the previous month Health- relatedqualityoflifeand functionality ... sleep quality were observed at baseline (p = 0.04) and study end (p = 0.002) Overall, qualityof sleep and appetite improved in 23.7% and 25.9% of patients, respectively, and worsened in 32.5% and...
... Factors Affecting HealthRelated QualityofLife amongst Asian Patients with Parkinson’s Disease International Society for QualityofLife Research (ISOQOL) Conference on PatientReportedOutcomes in ... care professionals have recognized that enhancement of health- relatedqualityoflife (HRQoL) should be an important objective of medical care for PD patients Thus, measurement of HRQoL and identification ... summarized at the end of this chapter and reiterated in the individual chapters Overview of Health- relatedQualityofLife (HRQoL) Over past two decades, traditional measures of public health based on...
... Assessment of health- relatedqualityoflife in renal transplant and hemodialysis patients using the SF-36 health survey Urology 2000, 56:201-206 Tomasz W, Piotr S: A trial of objective comparison ofquality ... threshold of 0.40 [30,31] and/ or cross- Page of 12 (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLifeOutcomes 2008, 6:78 http://www.hqlo.com/content/6/1/78 Table 4: Dimension and factor ... stressful life event and patients showed both of these characteristics Significant differences were neither found for the five dimensions of RTQ nor dimensions of SF36 among any of these groups of patients...
... reliability and validity of health- relatedqualityoflife questionnaire among adult pulmonary tuberculosis patients in urban Uganda: cross-sectional study HealthandQualityofLifeOutcomes 2010 8:93 ... et al HealthandQualityofLifeOutcomes 2010, 8:93 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/93 Page of Figure Health- relatedqualitylife scores among adult tuberculosis patients in Kampala Uganda, ... services and clinical research have focused on outcomesof mortality and microbiologic cure, and have neglected patient s preferences such as patient s perceived healthrelated qualityoflife (HRQoL)...
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... HealthandQualityofLifeOutcomes 2009, 7:35 Background Measurement ofhealthrelatedqualityoflife (HRQL) started in the 70's as a complement to traditional clinical outcomes As ... measuring health- relatedqualityoflife in children and adolescents; HRQL: Health- RelatedQualityof Life; CBCL: Child Behaviour Checklist; SDQ: Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire; SD: Standard ... Validation of a French health- relatedqualityoflife instrument for adolescents: the VSP-A Qual Life Res 2000, 9:393-403 Ravens-Sieberer U, Bullinger M: Assessing health- relatedqualityoflife in...