Quality of Life Research

Health-related quality of life in haematopoietic stem cell transplant survivors: a qualitative study on the role of psychosocial variables and response shifts

Rebecca J. Beeken, Christine Eiser, Christopher Dalley

To what extent can response shift theory explain the variation in prostate cancer patients’ reactions to treatment side-effects? A review

Jessica E. Donohoe

The importance of socio-demographic factors for the quality of life of adults with congenital heart disease

Matthäus Vigl, Eva Niggemeyer, Alfred Hager, Gerda Schwedler, Siegfried Kropf, Ulrike Bauer

Comparison of the short-term health-related quality of life in patients with esophageal cancer with different routes of gastric tube reconstruction after minimally invasive esophagectomy

Hao Wang, Lijie Tan, Mingxiang Feng, Yi Zhang, Qun Wang

Comparison of Arab breast cancer survivors and healthy controls for spousal relationship, body image, and emotional distress

Miri Cohen, Ahlam Abdallah Mabjish, Jamal Zidan

Smoking habits and health-related quality of life in a rural Japanese population

Koichi Funahashi, Ippei Takahashi, Kazuma Danjo, Masashi Matsuzaka, Takashi Umeda, Shigeyuki Nakaji

External validity of the pediatric cardiac quality of life inventory

Bradley S. Marino, Dennis Drotar, Amy Cassedy, Richard Davis, Ryan S. Tomlinson, Katelyn Mellion, Kathleen Mussatto, Lynn Mahony, Jane W. Newburger, Elizabeth Tong, Mitchell I. Cohen, Mark A. Helfaer, Anne E. Kazak, Jo Wray, Gil Wernovsky, Judy A. Shea, Richard Ittenbach

Measurement properties of a multicultural weight-specific quality-of-life instrument for children and adolescents

• Open Access

Leo S. Morales, Todd C. Edwards, Yvonne Flores, Lee Barr, Donald L. Patrick

Life satisfaction in adult survivors of cancer during adolescence: what contributes to the latter satisfaction with life?

Diana C. M. Seitz, Daniela Hagmann, Tanja Besier, Ute Dieluweit, Klaus-Michael Debatin, Desiree Grabow, Peter Kaatsch, Gerhard Henrich, Lutz Goldbeck

Biological maturation as a confounding factor in the relation between chronological age and health-related quality of life in adolescent females

• Brief Communication

Sean P. Cumming, Fiona B. Gillison, Lauren B. Sherar

The PedsQL in pediatric cerebral palsy: reliability and validity of the Chinese version pediatric quality of life inventory 4.0 generic core scales and 3.0 cerebral palsy module

Xue Yang, Nong Xiao, Jianying Yan

Erratum to: The PedsQL in pediatric cerebral palsy: reliability and validity of the Chinese version pediatric quality of life inventory 4.0 generic core scales and 3.0 cerebral palsy module

• Erratum

Xue Yang, Nong Xiao, Jianying Yan

Understanding the relationships between health outcomes in generalized anxiety disorder clinical trials

Kathleen W. Wyrwich, Neesha Harnam, Julie C. Locklear, Henrik Svedsäter, Dennis A. Revicki

The RSM-scale: a pilot study on a new specific scale for self- and observer-rated quality of life in patients with schizophrenia

M. Riedel, I. Spellmann, R. Schennach-Wolff, M. Obermeier, R. Musil

Discrepancy in rating health-related quality of life of depression between patient and general population

• Open Access
• Brief Communication

Sylvia A. H. Gerhards, Silvia M. A. A. Evers, Philip W. M. Sabel, Marcus J. H. Huibers

Validation of the medical outcomes study HIV (MOS-HIV) health survey among HIV-infected patients in Taiwan

Ping-Chuan Hsiung, Chi-Tai Fang, Keng-Lin Lee, Wang-Huei Sheng, Chia-Yun Wu, Jung-Der Wang, Grace Yao

Missing data methods for dealing with missing items in quality of life questionnaires. A comparison by simulation of personal mean score, full information maximum likelihood, multiple imputation, and hot deck techniques applied to the SF-36 in the French 2003 decennial health survey

Hugo Peyre, Alain Leplège, Joël Coste

Validation of the Fatigue Impact Scale in Hungarian patients with multiple sclerosis

• Brief Communication

Erika Losonczi, Krisztina Bencsik, Cecília Rajda, Gyula Lencsés, Margit Török, László Vécsei