... Conference of the International Society for QualityofLife Research, Barcelona, Spain, Qual Lif Res Abstracts Issue 1999, 8:617 Nanda U, Andresen EM: Performance measures of healthrelated qualityoflife ... both adolescents and adults [1-3] and monitoring adult QOL continues to be of interest in the United States [4,5] Monitoring adolescent QOL is also beginning to receive attention in some adolescent ... Although definitions vary, QOL has been defined as "a popular term that conveys an overall sense of well-being, including aspects of happiness and satisfaction with life as a whole "It is broad and subjective...
... ‘real life trial much reflecting the clinical care setting and therefore the results are in line with what is possible to obtain in non-research settings Vadstrup et al Health andQualityofLife ... design of the study and provided input into the main ideas of this paper All authors obtained funding for the project ESV carried out screening, randomization and examination of the patients, and ... et al Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2011, 9:110 http://www.hqlo.com/content/9/1/110 assessment of health-related qualityoflife (HRQOL) in type diabetes An increasing number of type diabetes...
... provided input into the main ideas of this paper All authors obtained funding for the project ESV carried out screening, randomization and examination of the patients, and performed part of the ... educational settings often encourage interaction and interpersonal dynamics and invite to social modelling compared to individual settings [11] A small number of studies have compared the effects of group-based ... health-related qualityoflifeand their self-rated health Most often, evaluation of diabetes interventions assess effects on glycemic control with little consideration ofqualityoflife The aim of the...
... evaluation of the data, their interpretation andin writing the manuscript KS and FH collected part of the data and participated in interpreting the data MP enabled the realization of the study, ... to increased mortality Accordingly, in COPD mortality was high and HRQL low In this respect there was as link between HRQL and mortality in all diseases associated with CHRF and HMV although in ... predictive value of 6-MWD might have been contained in the SRI Of course, HRQL can be no more than one factor in the multivariate panel determining the clinical state and prognosis of patients with...
... importance of caregivers as change agents of the child, in turn, children are reciprocally change agents of the caregiver andof family lifein general Caregivers of children in the Ritalin LA subgroup, ... both baseline and endpoint, the number of children who missed or more days of school was lower at endpoint compared to baseline In addition at endpoint, there was a decrease in the number of missed ... endpoint, the mean (SD) score was 85.4 (17.4), indicative of a change in mean from baseline of 17.3 and a percent improvement from baseline of 25.4% Subgroup analyses revealed that improvement in...
... well-being, self-control, and vitality Life Satisfaction Index This index assesses satisfaction in fourteen areas including marriage, finances, standard of living, housing, and degree of social ... three-day training session, although much of the training was devoted to medical record abstraction rather than administering quality- of- life instruments The investigators maintained routine contacts ... attribution QualityofLifeand Technology Assessment http://www.nap.edu/catalog/1424.html THE USE OF QUALITY- OF- LIFE MEASURES IN TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT The Use of Quality- of- Life Measures in Technology...
... unanswered is determining what these findings mean in terms of clinical intervention and care It is yet unclear if precise psychosocial factors can be manipulated to effect qualityoflifeand disease ... Center for an initial intake interview with the research associate As part of the larger ongoing study, the nature of the study and the QualityofLifeand Breast Cancer 511 process of randomization ... self-administered and ranked on a five point Likert scale The FACIT-B is comprised of five areas ofqualityof life: physical well being, social/family well-being, emotional well-being, and functional...
... utilization of health facilities, using their drugs as prescribed, eating and drinking on time in clean and wholesome environment promote qualityoflifein old age Of importance was consumption of only ... traditional life style practices were strong determinant of health behaviours andqualityoflife The findings in a vastly changing society cannot be analyzed in isolation of the family poverty ridding ... persons and type of support being provided The instruments were translated into the local language and pilot tested during the training processes and before the actual Field Work Spot-checks and...
... Targeting these risk factors and improving social services (e.g., job training programs) could help increase the qualityand years of healthy lifeand eliminate health disparities for persons in ... Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2008, 6:49 Background Two overarching US Healthy People 2010 objectives are "to increase qualityand years of healthy life, " and "to eliminate health ... classes of HRQOL than about each of nine individual HRQOL indicators, these classes provide an effective means of assessing progress towards RI's Healthy People 2010 goal of increasing the quality of...
... opinions of clinicians and patients regarding the level of bother and the impact of urinary symptoms on HRQL [33] ER: extended release; HRQL: health-related qualityof life; ICS: International Continence ... proportion of Authors' contributions PvK, CK, KC, ZK, MB, and JTW participated in the concept and design, interpretation of data, and the drafting and revising of the manuscript PvK was involved in collecting ... healthrelated qualityoflifeof stress, urge and mixed urinary incontinence BJU Int 2003, 92(7):731-735 Abrams P, Kelleher C, Lerr L, Rogers R: Overactive bladder significantly affects qualityof life...
... important aspects of interest for the outcome of PKU patients are qualityoflifeand social outcome Qualityoflife (QoL) is a multidimensional concept reflecting the impact of disease and treatment ... the Profile ofQualityofLifein the Chronically Ill (PLC) In this questionnaire the two aspects of QoL, performance capacity and well being, are weighted equally resulting in an evaluation of ... PKU: Phenylketonuria; QoL: Qualityof life; PLC: Profile ofQualityofLifein the Chronically Ill 15 Competing interests The author(s) declare that they have no competing interests Authors' contributions...
... between the ratings ofqualityoflifeand ratings of the degree of voice handicap also was of interest The null hypothesis regarding this relationship was that changes in the voice handicap would ... the degree of handicap, impact on qualityof life, and the amount of change in these measures following TE voice restoration For some individuals, improvements in QOL and degree of handicap may ... Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2008, 6:26 and from others [3] Additionally, re-routing of breathing through a stoma often results in increased mucus production, coughing, and possibly...
... showed an increase in mental qualityoflife only [12], and two showed a decrease in physical qualityoflife [13,14] Table 1: Demographic, baseline and on-treatment characteristics of female and male ... form at the screening visit, indicating their willingness to take part in this research study Study measures Qualityoflife Health-related qualityoflife was assessed using a standardised questionnaire, ... AW: Qualityoflife assessment comes of age in the era of highly active antiretroviral therapy AIDS 2000, 14:1449-1451 Casado A: Measurement ofqualityoflifeof HIV individuals: perspectives and...
... these symptoms are often non-specific and may consist of things like abdominal distention, vaginal bleeding, abdominal or low back pain, often leading treating professionals to misinterpret early ... assessment of QOL in this group of patients Miller, Pittman and Strong [4] also highlighted the need for assessment ofqualityoflifeand emotional functioning These researchers administered ... researched, with the bulk of research devoted to prolongation oflife Reports in the literature have been conflicting, with some finding deterioration in QOL and some finding stability or improvement...
... limited criteria ofqualityoflifeand the selection of study populations [5,8,9] Actually, the previous studies by Schmidt and co-workers, in which qualityoflife was measured with an instrument ... logistic regression analyses for impaired qualityoflife Odds ratios for risk of belonging to the lowest quintiles in the dimensions ofqualityoflife Variable BDI1) IGR2) QUICKI3) AGA4) Marital ... especially in Finnish subjects with light and thin hair Moreover, the classes II and III were combined because of the low number of women in class III (n = 4) The strengths of our study include...
... pain more frequently than controls, had a lower qualityof life, and complained more of daily stressors Assessment of pain may be important in the clinical evaluation of women with MDD SP and ... pain and depression are both associated with insomnia and altered sleep quality, and impaired qualityoflife [12] The aims of the current study were: 1) to establish the prevalence of pain and ... location and intensity of pain during daily life The BPI-SF utilizes a rating scale of (no pain) to 10 (worst pain possible) and is administered by the evaluator The BPI asks whether pain over...
... Sensitivity and Specificity of predicting physicians assessment of "successful therapy" Sensitivity and specificity is listed for a series of cut-off points (given in percent of baseline total ... the health-related qualityoflife (HRQoL) – measured with the self-administered MRS scale – is described in Table The means (SD) of the scoring points of the total scale (and the three subscales) ... values (SD) of the relative change (= % improvement of the complaints) in four categories of severity at baseline The range of baseline scores is given in brackets for each category of severity...
... Study ofqualityoflifeand its determinants in patients after urinary stone fragmentation Health andQualityofLife Outcomes 2010 8:119 Page of Submit your next manuscript to BioMed Central and ... 3) Interestingly, indwelling stents and gender did not seem to affect HRQOL scores Other studies have indicated that pain associated with indwelling stents interfere with daily activities and ... Ferrer M, Gandek B: Health-related qualityoflife associated with chronic conditions in eight countries: results from the International QualityofLife Assessment (IQOLA) project Qual Life Res...
... were included: age, gender, size of household (single or including several persons), size of area of residence (small towns to big cities) , educational Twork et al Health andQualityofLife ... The main components of costs were the expenditures of health insurance and the loss of productivity of patients and their caregivers Disease severity of MG and assistance in activities of the ... therapy and intensive-care technology have increased the life expectancy of MG patients [3] Within the last 10 years QoL aspects were focused increasingly in studies on MG patients - predominantly in...
... rationale for and design of a longitudinal study to examine Page of functional status, adjustment, qualityof life, and symptoms in a diverse sample of English and Spanish speaking adult patients ... measuring the qualityoflifein terms of domains: physical symptoms distress, psychological distress, activity level, and overall global lifequalityin various types of cancer patients undergoing ... ofqualityoflife Transplantation 1993, 55(3):551-557 27 Sutherland HJ, Fyles GM, Adams G, Hao Y, Lipton JH, Minden MD, Meharchand JM, Atkins H, Tejpar I, Messner HA: Qualityoflife following...