... onto HAART and increasing survival among these patients, there is a growing need to understand the impact of HAART use on the quality of lives of HIVinfected individuals [4-8] There is a sizeable ... South Africa, there is an ongoing debate about whether or not the side-effect profile of HAART may adversely affect the HRQoL of HIVpositive individuals More data ab...
... article as: Tjakkes et al., TMD pain: the effect on health related quality of life and the influence of pain duration Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:46 Page of ... consent Quality of life has been described by the World Health Organisation as " an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the...
... Figure standing on left (left) and right leg (right) One leg One leg standing on left (left) and right leg (right) Boxplot before (pre) and after (post) month ambulatory intervention and follow-up ... (Table 2) They suffered from chronic non-malignant pain and had multiple failed therapies in their history Occurrence of pain for a duration exceeding six months was consid...
... Ministry of Education authorized and facilitated the study The following played invaluable roles in data collection: Zaina Al-Zabin, Nahed Kamel, Abdel W Awadalla, and Sumai (and Ministry of Education ... 0.0001) Covariance analysis It was necessary to analysis of covariance in order to understand the impact of anxiety, depression, selfesteem and difficulty with studi...
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... (Fajemilehin, 2001) Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine the quality of life against the back ground of the health behaviours and traditional life style practices of the elderly persons in ... CONCLUSIONS The elderly persons’ socio-economic status traditional life style practices were strong determinant of health behaviours and quality of...
... relationship between the ratings of quality of life and ratings of the degree of voice handicap also was of interest The null hypothesis regarding this relationship was that changes in the voice handicap ... conclusion although there is a fair amount of variation in the degree of handicap, impact on quality of life, and the amount of change in the...
... article as: Arafa and Rabah: Study of quality of life and its determinants in patients after urinary stone fragmentation Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8:119 Page of Submit your next manuscript ... Arabia All patients (n = 320) admitted to the urology service for surgical intervention for fragmentation of urinary stones during the period...
... Bevans et al.: Function, Adjustment, Quality of Life and Symptoms (FAQS) in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) Survivors: A Study Protocol Health and Quality of Life Outcomes ... measuring the quality of life in terms of domains: physical symptoms distress, psychological distress, activity level, and overall global life...
... Westin T, Kaasa S: Quality of life in head and neck cancer patients: validation of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire-H&N35 J Clin Oncol ... combined with parotid salivary output of patients with head -and- neck malignancies treated with RT We found a deterioration of most of the QOL items...
... quality of life is an important outcome parameter in the study of chronic cough To investigate HRQOL of Chinese patients with chronic cough, we compared the scores of items in SF-36 between patients ... quality of life in patients with chronic cough deteriorated significantly when compared with healthy volunteers The scores of patients with c...
... patient and 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 care patients ... emotional function) and reduced health-related quality of life (HRQoL) [6] In a large randomized clinical trial, recombinant human activated protein C...