Quality of Life group to consider its futureTim Zorn, PostTribune staff writer
The definition of quality of life was formulated by the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) Quality of Life Group (WHOQOL Group), which defined quality as an individual's perception of his or her position in life in the context of the culture and value systems accepted by the society in ...
We aimed to evaluate quality of life (QoL) using the European Quality of Life Five-Dimensions questionnaire (EQ-5D-3L) in a real-world cohort of Dutch advanced breast cancer (ABC) patients. Secondary, we reported differences in QoL between subgroups of patients based on age, comorbidity, tumo...
Heath-related quality of life (HRQoL) among survivors with unresectable locally-advanced non-small cell lung cancer (LA-NSCLC) treated with radiotherapy and chemotherapy still is not clear. The current study were performed to determine HRQoL for long-ter
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Quality of life in patients with advanced epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC) randomized to maintenance pazopanib or placebo after first-line chemotherapy in the AGO-OVAR 16 trial. Measuring what matters—patient-centered end points in trials of maintenance therapy...
A holistic service system is defined as “a service system that can support the people within it, with some level of (1) completeness (quality of life associated with whole service), (2) independence (from all external service systems), and (3) extended duration (longer than a month if ...
The definition of QoL adopted by the WHOQoL group is the following: individuals’ perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live and in relation to their goals,...This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution ...
In the Combined group, older children reported lower quality of life and self-esteem than younger children. Internalizing symptoms explained more of the variance in quality of life than in self-esteem. Symptoms of depression explained more of the variance than anxious symptoms. Female gender was ...
Conclusions A two-factor solution for the WHOQOL-SRPB is more tenable, in which three of the eight WHOQOL-SRPB facets group together as a spiritual coping factor and the remaining facets form a factor of spiritual quality of life. While discarding the facets connectedness, strength, and faith...