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Oral health related quality of life

Journal of International Society of Preventive and Community Dentistry, 2013
Diseases and disorders that damage the mouth and face can disturb well-being and his self-esteem. Oral health-related quality of life (OHRQOL) is a relatively new but rapidly growing notion. The concept of OHRQOL can become a tool to understand and shape not only the state of clinical practice, dental research and dental education but also that of ...
C.V.K. Reddy, Darshana Bennadi
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Impact of metabolic comorbidity on the association between body mass index and heatlh-related quality of life: a Scotland-wide cross-sectional study of 5,608 participants [PDF]

, 2012
<p/>Background: The prevalence of obesity is rising in Scotland and globally. Overall, obesity is associated with increased morbidity, mortality and reduced health-related quality of life.
A Peeters, Daniel F Mackay, DS Morrison, E Lopez-Garcia, EA Sims, Elisabeth Fenwick, ES Ford, FB Hu, G Iacobellis, GA Bray, GA Colditz, H Jia, HA Doll, HL Wee, I Castres, J Brazier, Jill P Pell, JM Rippe, K Trakas, KM Flegal, KR Fontaine, KR Fontaine, LL Yan, MA Friedman, MA Friedman, MJ Garcia-Mendizabal, MK Hassan, N Stefan, N Vasiljevic, RF Kushner, RL Kolotkin, RP Wildman, RP Wildman, S Sarlio-Lahteenkorva, S Velho, SJ Olshansky, TG Bentley, TH Sach, WM Hopman, World Health Organization, Zia Ul-Haq   +40 more
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People with Suspected COVID-19 Symptoms Were More Likely Depressed and Had Lower Health-Related Quality of Life: The Potential Benefit of Health Literacy

Journal of Clinical Medicine, 2020
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic affects people’s health and health-related quality of life (HRQoL), especially in those who have suspected COVID-19 symptoms (S-COVID-19-S).
H. C. Nguyen, M. Nguyen, B. N. Do, C. Q. Tran, T. P. Nguyen, K. Pham, L. V. Pham, Khanh V Tran, Trang T Duong, T. V. Tran, T. Duong, T. Nguyen, Q. Nguyen, T. Hoang, K. Nguyen, T. Pham, Shwu-Huey Yang, J. Chao, T. Duong   +18 more
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A questionnaire for rating health-related quality of life [PDF]

Slovenian Journal of Public Health, 2021
Abstract Background Translations of instruments for measuring quality of life developed in certain, mostly more developed, parts of the world usually do not cover regionally specific aspects of health-related quality of life, even after transcultural validation.
Snežana Mugoša, Bojan Blidarević, Slobodan M. Jankovic, Refet Gojak, Nikola Janković, Nevena Mahmutbegović, Sanja K. Miljković, Dušanka Krajnović, Zorana Đorđević, Ivana Iličković, Natasa Bogavac-Stanojevic, Milorad Stojadinovic, Slađana Popović, Admir Mehicevic, Iva Mikulić, Sebija Izetbegovic, Enra Suljic Mehmedika, Belma Gazibera   +17 more
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Gender differences in health-related quality of life following total laryngectomy [PDF]

, 2010
Background: The impact of a total laryngectomy on an individual's life has primarily been measured from a male viewpoint reflecting the demographics of a diagnosis of laryngeal cancer.
Gibson, S., Hilari, K., Lee, M. T.
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Health-related Quality of Life in Emphysema [PDF]

Proceedings of the American Thoracic Society, 2008
Patients with emphysema may experience reduced health-related quality of life (HRQOL). HRQOL measures have evolved from two different measurement traditions: psychometric theory and decision theory. Psychometric methods typically create a profile of outcomes, whereas decision theory methods offer a summary score on a continuum ranging from 0.0 (for ...
Robert M. Kaplan, Andrew L. Ries
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APPROACHES IN ORAL HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE ASSESSMENT

Romanian Journal of Oral Rehabilitation, 2021
Oral health, as an important part of general health, may negatively influence individuals’ quality of life. In recent decades, many instruments for oral health-related quality of life assessment have been developed.
Alice Murariu, Andrei Corneaga, Livia Bobu, Anca Vițalariu, Gabriela Gelețu, Raluca Elena Baciu   +5 more
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How is the minimal clinically important difference established in health-related quality of life instruments? Review of anchors and methods

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2020
Background The aim of this systematic review is to describe the different types of anchors and statistical methods used in estimating the Minimal Clinically Important Difference (MCID) for Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) instruments.
Y. Mouelhi, E. Jouve, C. Castelli, S. Gentile   +3 more
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Health-Related Quality of Life Measurement in Public Health.

Annual Review of Public Health, 2021
Patient-reported outcomes are recognized as essential for the evaluation of medical and public health interventions. Over the last 50 years, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) research has grown exponentially from 0 to more than 17,000 papers ...
R. Kaplan, R. Hays
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Impact of AferBio® on quality of life and chemotherapy toxicity in advanced lung cancer patients (AFERBIO study): protocol study for a phase II randomized controlled trial

BMC Cancer, 2019
Background Lung cancer patients undergoing palliative chemotherapy exhibit many symptoms related to the disease, such as adverse events and infectious complications during treatment, which impacts directly their health-related quality of life (HRQOL ...
Daniel D’Almeida Preto, Mariana Toledo Baston, Camilla Centurion Geraige, Sarah Bertazzi Augusto, Marco Antonio de Oliveira, Augusto Elias Mamere, Gustavo Dix Junqueira Pinto, Josiane Mourão Dias, Pedro Rafael Martins De Marchi, Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro Paiva, Carlos Eduardo Paiva   +10 more
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