questionnaireIn humans, heart disease is associated with high caregiver burden and stress, which can negatively affect the health-related quality of life (hrQoL) of both patient and caregiver. The effect of a dog's heart disease on owners' hrQoL has not been reported. Therefore, the objective ...
Health-related QoL was assessed using a validated, cancer-specific core questionnaire, the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) QLQ-C30 (version 3.0) and a lung-specific module, the EORTC QLQ LC-13 [3]. Questions were scaled and scored using the recommended EORTC...
The aims of this study are (1) to evaluate the HRQOL measured with the TNO-AZL Questionnaire for Adult’s Health Related Quality of Life (TAAQOL) of parents of a child with JIA compared to a Dutch TAAQOL norm group and (2) to compare parents of children with the diagnosis JIA with ...
To date, no valid instrument is available that focuses on specific health-related quality of life (HRQoL) issues that affect thyroid cancer survivors. The objective of this study was to develop and pretest a thyroid cancer specific HRQoL questionnaire that can be used in addition to the more ge...
Husson O,Haak HR,Mols F,et al.Development of a disease-specific health-related quality of life questionnaire(THYCA-QoL)for thyroid cancer survivors[J].Acta Oncol,2013,52(2):447-454.Husson O, Haak HR, Mols F, et al. Development of a disease-specific health-related quality of life ...
subjective health status now incorporate standardised measures, and several psychometric measures are available. Despite the thousands of empirical and conceptual papers in the medical and pharmacological literature on health-related quality of life (HR-QOL), the value of such measures in the regulatory...
questionnaires in spinal cord injury research DGT Whitehurst1,2, VK Noonan3,4,5, MFS Dvorak3,4,5 and S Bryan1,2 Study design: Systematic review Objectives: Review the use of generic preference-based measures of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) within the context of spinal cord injury...
B. Assessing symptom burden in bladder cancer: an overview of bladder cancer specific health-related quality of life instruments. Bladder Cancer 2, 329–340 (2016). Article PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Siracusano, S. et al. Development of a questionnaire specifically for patients with ...
When the patient returned the questionnaire at 6 months, but was missing at 12 months we used the 6 months results. For the remaining non-responders we discounted 25% from the approximated score (within the support type) to take into account the possibility that not returning the survey would...
Subscale Cronbach's alpha ranged from 0.83 to 0.95, with the overall health-related quality of life score alpha = 0.97. The Uterine Fibroid Symptom and Quality of Life (UFS-QOL) questionnaire subscales discriminated not only from normal controls but also among leiomyomata patients with varying ...