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Longitudinal impact of demographic and clinical variables on Health-Related Quality of Life in Cystic Fibrosis [PDF]

, 2015
Objectives: The insights that people with cystic fibrosis have concerning their health are important given that aspects of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) are independent predictors of survival and a decrease in lung function is associated with a ...
A-Rahman, Abbott, Abbott, Abbott, Arrington-Sanders, Bradley, Bradley, Dill, Duff, Feltrim, Fitzmaurice, Gee, Gee, Gee, Goldbeck, Kreft, Kugler, Lowton, Quattrucci, Quittner, Rasbash, Rodgers, Sawicki, Sawicki, Sawicki, Schmitz, Smeritschnig, Spahr, Staab, Taylor, Tierney, Ullrich, Wahl, Walters   +33 more
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Physical activity and quality of life of amputees in southern Brazil [PDF]

, 2011
Physical activity is a positive component of human health. Its effects are associated with improvement in physical, psychological and social aspects of quality of life. Physical activity is therefore an important factor in the rehabilitation of amputees.
da Silva, Rudney, Deans, Sarah, Filho, Paulo Jose Barbosa Gutierres, Ramos, Valmor, Rizzo, Julia Ghazel   +4 more
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Health-Related Quality of Life

Laeknabladid, 2015
With increasing technology in medicine and possibilities to extend life, interest for studying health-related quality of life, i.e. the subjective well-being of patients against the background of their diseases, accidents or treatment, has increased. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a self administered test for health-related quality of life ...
T, Helgason, J K, Bjornsson, K, Tomasson, S, Ingimarsson   +3 more
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Health-Related Quality of Life or Quality of Medical Service? Current challenges for family doctors

Family Medicine & Primary Care Review, 2016
Maximizing Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) is one of the most important goals in the work of the family doctor. Providing a high quality of medical services (QMS) should be among the most important challenges in primary health care organizations ...
Krzysztof Kanecki, Aneta Nitsch-Osuch, Piotr Zbigniew Tyszko   +2 more
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A falls prevention programme to improve quality of life, physical function and falls efficacy in older people receiving home help services: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial [PDF]

, 2017
BACKGROUND: Falls and fall-related injuries in older adults are associated with great burdens, both for the individuals, the health care system and the society. Previous research has shown evidence for the efficiency of exercise as falls prevention.
A Bandura, A Dadgari, A Saletti, A Vuillemin, AC Scheffer, AF Ambrose, AJ Campbell, AP Vivanti, Astrid Bergland, B Meinow, B Senn, B Vellas, C Luthy, C Meyer, C Sherrington, C-H Chou, CJ Jones, CMA Marques-Vieira, D Altman, Dawn A. Skelton, DM Landers, DM Peters, E McAuley, E McAuley, E McAuley, E McInnes, ER Vieira, ET Petridou, F El-Khoury, FB Gillison, G Salkeld, GA Kelley, HC Kraemer, I Vikman, JH Loge, K Christensen, K Delbaere, K Frändin, K Hawkins, K Haywood, KF Schulz, KF Schulz, KJ Preacher, KO Berg, L Yardley, LF Hektoen, LS Acree, LZ Rubenstein, M Bonnefoy, M Herdman, M Janssen, M Lawton, M Markle-Reid, M Ory, Maria Bjerk, MC Robertson, N Vries De, PC Fletcher, PC Fletcher, R Brooks, R Elkan, R Forkan, S Heydarnejad, S Hollis, S Michie, S Vaapio, SE Lamb, SE Lamb, SM White, SS Vaapio, T Brovold, The EuroQol Group, The WHOQOL Group, Therese Brovold, TN Tombaugh, Y Guigoz, Y Hellström, Y Netz   +77 more
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Health-related quality of life of adolescents living with HIV treated at the HIV Clinic at the National Institute of Pediatrics at Mexico City

European Psychiatry, 2022
Introduction ATR for children has successfully increase survival to adolescence. Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is relevant to evaluate the impact of the disease on well-being in adolescents living with HIV (ALH).
D.B. Montoya Moya, D. Molina, J. Ordoñez Ortega   +2 more
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Health-related quality of life in the WA HIV Cohort: 2008 [PDF]

, 2009
Quality of life (QOL) is an important outcome of HIV treatment and a priority in the management of HIV. A new Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) questionnaire to measure the QOL in people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) from different cultures and language ...
Acquadro, C., Duracinsky, M., Herrmann, S., Lalanne, C., Mallal, S., Nolan, D.   +5 more
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A bi-directional relationship between obesity and health-related quality of life : evidence from the longitudinal AusDiab study

, 2012
Objective: To assess the prospective relationship between obesity and health-related quality of life, including a novel assessment of the impact of health-related quality of life on weight gain.Design and setting: Longitudinal, national, population-based
A Hodge, A J Cameron, A Peeters, A Renzaho, AJ Cameron, AJ Cameron, AJ Vickers, CM Alexander, D J Magliano, D W Dunstan, DB Allison, DJ Magliano, DL Zabelina, DW Dunstan, DW Dunstan, E Atlantis, EH Coakley, EL Barr, F Soltoft, FS Luppino, G Hawthorne, H Jia, J E Shaw, JE Ware, JT Fine, K De Vos, K Hesketh, L Barr, LL Yan, M Dalton, M Forhan, M Laaksonen, M Stafford, ME Lean, ML Daviglus, P Bjorntorp, P Bjorntorp, P Serrano-Aguilar, P Z Zimmet, PK Myint, RJ Tapp, RL Kolotkin, S Colagiuri, SL White, WJ Brown, WM Hopman, WS Yancy Jr   +46 more
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Making Rasch decisions: The use of Rasch analysis in the construction of preference based health related quality of life instruments [PDF]

, 2008
Objective: To set out the methodological process for using Rasch analysis alongside traditional psychometric methods in the development of a health state classification that is amenable to valuation.
Brazier, J., Coyne, K., Tsuchiya, A., Yang, Y., Young, T.   +4 more
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Measures of Health Related quality of life in an imperfect world: a comment on Dowie [PDF]

, 2002
Professor Dowie has written an interesting and thought provoking paper on a long lasting debate in the literature on measuring health related quality of life.
Brazier, Brazier, Drummond, Fitzpatrick, Fitzpatrick, Harper, Jenkinson, Klassen, Kobelt, MacKenzie, Revicki, Torrance, Ware, Williams   +13 more
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