Towards the use of mixed methods inquiry as best practice in health outcomes research
Mixed methods research (MMR) has found an increased interest in the field of health outcomes research. Consideration for both qualitative and quantitative perspectives has become key to contextualising patient experiences in a clinically meaningful ...
Antoine Regnault +3 more
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Quality of Life in Hemophilia [PDF]
Summary. There is a growing interest in patient‐reported outcomes as measures for evaluating the benefits of new and existing treatments. Health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) is one of these patient‐reported outcomes and represents the individual experience and perception of illness/health together with the psychosocial response to disease‐related ...
S. V. Mackensen, A. Gringeri
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Trajectories of quality of life in patients with traumatic limb injury: a 2-year follow-up study [PDF]
Purpose Traumatic limb injury (TLI) can have a negative impact on a patient's quality of life (QOL), and the patient's QOL may fluctuate over time. However, the longitudinal change patterns of QOL in patients with TLI are largely unknown. The aim of this
Lin, Gong-Hong; Huang, Yi-Jing; Huang, Chien-Yu; Lu, Wen-Shian; Chen, Sheng-Shiung; Hou, Wen-Hsuan; Hsieh, Ching-Lin
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Quality of life at the end of life [PDF]
Little is known about self-perceived quality of life (QOL) near the end of life, because such information is difficult to collect and to interpret. Here, we describe QOL in the weeks near death and determine correlates of QOL over time, with emphasis on accounting for death and missing data.Data on QOL were collected approximately every week in an ...
Downey Lois +5 more
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Factors Correlated with the Quality of Life after Total Knee Arthroplasties: A Literature Review [PDF]
Introduction: Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) has been widely reported to improve outcomes and quality of life (QoL) in patients with knee osteoarthritis (KOA), but there are still 15 - 20% of patients still experience pain, physical limitations, and other
Sunadi A +4 more
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Evaluation of Anxiety, Quality of Life and Quality of Sleep in Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain
Objective:This study aims to (i) determine the presence of chronic neuropathic low back pain (LBP) in young patients and (ii) evaluate the anxiety, quality of life and quality of sleep in neuropathic and nociceptive LBP.Materials and Methods:A total of ...
Sıddıka Gedik Depreli +2 more
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This chapter reviews the quality of life in European societies, drawing on sociological theories of the quality of life, and specifically touching upon the areas of housing, the environment, health, and time use. One major theme is the social stratification of quality of life, both within and between European societies.
Verwiebe, Roland +2 more
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Womens Perceptions of Their Husbands Drinking Behavior as a Risk Factor of Their Health-Related Quality of Life in the Postpartum Period [PDF]
The objective of this study is to investigate the association between womens perceptions of their husbands drinking behavior and their health- related quality of life HRQOL in the postpartum period.
CHANG, PEI-JEN;WU, LI-YAO;CHEN, YI-CHUN;CHUANG, CHAO-HUA;HSIEH, WU-SHIUN;LIN, SHIO-JEAN;CHEN, PAU-CHUNG +1 more
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Quality of life assessment using heath related quality of life in affected CKDu individuals; concept paper [PDF]
© 2020 The Authors. Published by Medwin Publishers. This is an open access article available under a Creative Commons licence. The published version can be accessed at the following link on the publisher’s website: https://medwinpublishers.com/OAJUN ...
Aslam, Fahim +2 more
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Satisfaction with the quality of life on Croatian small islands: Zlarin, Kaprije and Žirje [PDF]
The purpose of this study is to determine the levels of satisfaction with various life domains that constitute objective conditions of the quality of island life, and which influence the perception of islanders’ personal well-being among the inhabitants ...
Satisfaction with the quality of life on Croatian small islands: Zlarin, Kaprije and Žirje +2 more
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