... assess any new or ongoing AEs Health- relatedqualityoflifeand medication satisfaction measures As secondary objectives of this study, caregiver-reported HRQL and medication satisfaction were ... Eiser C, 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 ... stress the importance of caregivers as change agents of the child, in turn, children are reciprocally change agents of the caregiver andof family life in general Caregivers of children in the Ritalin...
... promotion of healthier lifestyles and improved access and affordability ofhealth care Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2008, 6:49 and medications ... HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2008, 6:49 Background Two overarching US Healthy People 2010 objectives are "to increase qualityand years of healthy life, " and "to eliminate health ... 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 Qual Life Outcomes...
... negative impact on the subjects' health- relatedqualityoflife (HRQL) [3,10-13] OAB adversely affects social and professional activities, social and sexual relationships, and travel [14,15] Treatment ... 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; ... 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- related quality...
... 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 ... measures of HRQOL, which are recom- Page of (page number not for citation purposes) HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2005, 3:49 http://www.hqlo.com/content/3/1/49 Table 3: Means/medians and standard...
... et al.: Health- relatedqualityoflifeand selfrelated health in patients with type diabetes: Effects of group-based rehabilitation versus individual counselling HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes ... Vadstrup et al HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2011, 9:110 http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/110 assessment of health- relatedqualityoflife (HRQOL) in type diabetes An increasing number of type ... for HRQOL (Health- relatedQualityof Life) and self-rated health assessments Of the 264 patients screened 121 was excluded mainly due to too low HbA1c Main reasons for missing data after randomisation...
... length of time since migration to Sweden is associated with the HRQL, taking into account the variables age and education Methods Measure of health- relatedqualityoflife We used the Short Form Health ... to measure the qualityoflife This is a well-known general instrument for measuring the health- relatedqualityoflife that is available both in Farsi (the Iranian language) and Swedish [11,12] ... indicator of socioeconomic status in this particular group Furthermore, education as a measure of socioeconomic status remains fairly unaffected over the course oflifeand the healthstatus In...
... Physicians' knowledge of health- relatedqualityoflifeand perception of its importance in daily clinical practice HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2010, 8:43 Page of ... knowledge on health- relatedQoL could lead to a growing use ofQoL measures in daily clinical practice, possibly increasing also the qualityof clinical care Bossola et al HealthandQualityofLife ... attitudes towards QoLand rate of physicians adopting QoL mea- Bossola et al HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2010, 8:43 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/43 Table 3: Characteristics of the physicians...
... correlated with the duration of pain Tjakkes et al HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 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 ... statusand 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 reported Qualityoflife is a highly subjective item and, as indicated by ... Gesundheitszustand (Handanweisung) Hogrefe Verlag für Psychologie 1998, 7: Ware JE, Gandeck B, and the IQOLA Project Group: The SF-36 health survey: development and use in mental health research and the IQOLA ... 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...
... patients’ health- relatedqualityoflifeand their self-rated health Most often, evaluation of diabetes interventions assess effects on glycemic control with little consideration ofqualityoflife ... health- relatedqualityoflifeand their self-rated health People with diabetes experience a decreased qualityoflife compared with people with no chronic illness but a better qualityoflife ... The 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...
... 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 ... Pedersen OF, Peslin R, Yernault JC: Lung volumes and forced ventilatory flows Report Working Party Standardization of Lung Function Tests, European Community for Steel and Coal Official Statement of...
... 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 ... review of the 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 ... RS, Curley FJ, 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...
... physical and psychological symptoms (dyspnoea, fatigue and depression), impaired functional status (physical, social and emotional function) and reduced health- relatedqualityoflife (HRQoL) [6] ... SF-36 is a multipurpose survey of general healthstatus consisting of eight domains and 36 items These domains and items were selected from a battery ofhealthstatus instruments used in the ... sepsis Am J Health Syst Pharm 2006, 63:575-581 Heyland DK, Hopman W, Coo H, Tranmer J, McColl MA: Longterm healthrelatedqualityoflife in survivors of sepsis Short Form 36: a valid and reliable...
... 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 ... in the broader context of previous research on Health- RelatedQualityofLife (HR -QoL) in children and adolescents with ADHD [45] Several studies have investigated HR -QoL in these patients These ... children and adolescents in treatment response to atomoxetine and the correlation between health- relatedqualityoflifeand Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder core symptoms: Meta-analysis of...
... impact of health- relatedqualityoflife (HRQoL) is well-established [17,18] and it has been noted that HRQoL is not only lower in children and adolescents with ADHD when compared to healthy age- and ... 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...
... patients Health 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 ... Research in HealthRelatedQualityofLife (HRQoL) and Pharmacoeconomics have evolved and advanced rapidly in the past decades This thesis will begin with a brief introduction of HRQoL and pharmacoeconomics ... 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...
... treatment of fibroids The Uterine Fibroid Symptom andHealthRelatedQualityofLife Questionnaire (UFS -QOL) is a uterine fibroid-specific questionnaire developed to evaluate the symptoms of uterine ... HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2008, 6:99 Background Uterine leiomyoma, or uterine fibroids (UF), are the most common neoplasms of the female pelvis, occurring in 20– 25% of women of ... consent and the study was approved by an Ethical Committee or Internal Review Board for all centers Measures Uterine Fibroid Symptom andHealthRelatedQualityofLife Questionnaire (UFS -QOL) The...
... treatment of fibroids The Uterine Fibroid Symptom andHealthRelatedQualityofLife Questionnaire (UFS -QOL) is a uterine fibroid-specific questionnaire developed to evaluate the symptoms of uterine ... HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2008, 6:99 Background Uterine leiomyoma, or uterine fibroids (UF), are the most common neoplasms of the female pelvis, occurring in 20– 25% of women of ... consent and the study was approved by an Ethical Committee or Internal Review Board for all centers Measures Uterine Fibroid Symptom andHealthRelatedQualityofLife Questionnaire (UFS -QOL) The...
... district, Uganda AIDS Care 2004, 16(1):81-94 EuroQol: –a new facility for the measurement of health- relatedqualityoflife The EuroQol Group Health Policy 1990, 16(3):199-208 Uganda Ministry of Health: ... reliability and validity of health- relatedqualityoflife questionnaire among adult pulmonary tuberculosis patients in urban Uganda: cross-sectional study HealthandQualityofLife Outcomes 2010 ... Page of Figure Health- relatedqualitylife scores among adult tuberculosis patients in Kampala Uganda, 2007-2008 Whiskers are standard errors (SEs) whereas bars represent health- relatedquality of...
... M and Montazeri A (2008) Determinants of health- relatedqualityoflife in elderly in Tehran, Iran BMC Public Health 8, 323 30 Tsai SY, Chi LY, Lee LS and Chou P (2004) Healthrelated qualityof ... and HQoL of participants It is probably that we investigated the HQoL of elderly on a base of questionnaire, and we did not measure other important dimensions of HQoL, such as healthstatusof ... 46, 57–66 19 Mokhtari F and Ghasemi N (2011) Comparison of elderly qualityoflifeand mental health living in nursing homes and members of retired of Shiraz city Salmand: Iranian J Ageing 5,...