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Quality of Life and Social Isolation Among Caregivers of Adults with Schizophrenia: Policy and Outcomes
Services have been increasingly directed at supporting carers of people living with mental illness but it is difficult to evaluate the impact of service change where benchmarks for carer functioning are sparse...
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A Danish Version of the Friendship Scale: Translation and Validation of a Brief Measure of Social Isolation
Low back pain (LBP) is common and social isolation is both a risk factor for poor recovery from LBP and a consequence of LBP. The Friendship Scale is a brief measure of social isolation that has been validated...
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Open AccessHealth-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) changes in South Australia: comparison of burden of disease morbidity and survey-based health utility estimates
Global research shows a clear transition in health outcomes over the past two decades where improved survival was accompanied by lower health related quality of life (HRQoL) as measured by morbidity and disabi...
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Open AccessRelationship between health-related quality of life, and acute care re-admissions and survival in older adults with chronic illness
Australia’s ageing population means that there is increasing emphasis on develo** innovative models of health care delivery for older adults. The assessment of the most appropriate mix of services and measur...
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Open AccessExercise rehabilitation for patients with critical illness: a randomized controlled trial with 12 months of follow-up
The purpose of this trial was to investigate the effectiveness of an exercise rehabilitation program commencing during ICU admission and continuing into the outpatient setting compared with usual care on physi...
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Open AccessConstruction of the descriptive system for the assessment of quality of life AQoL-6D utility instrument
Multi attribute utility (MAU) instruments are used to include the health related quality of life (HRQoL) in economic evaluations of health programs. Comparative studies suggest different MAU instruments measur...
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Development of a questionnaire for evaluating genetics education in general practice
To support developments in genetics education, we constructed the GPGeneQ questionnaire to assess skills required for the practice of genetics by general practitioners (GPs). We describe the process of develop...
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The development of an Incontinence Treatment Motivation Questionnaire for patients undergoing pelvic floor physiotherapy in the treatment of stress incontinence
The aim of this paper is to develop a motivation questionnaire regarding perseverance in pelvic floor muscle training (PFMT) supervised by physiotherapists for stress urinary incontinence.
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Open AccessHealth-related Quality of Life among hospitalized older people awaiting residential aged care
Health related quality of life (HRQoL) in very late life is not well understood. The aim of the present study was to assess HRQoL and health outcomes at four months follow-up in a group of older people awaitin...
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Deriving utility scores from the SF-36 health instrument using Rasch analysis
Utility scores for use in cost-utility analysis may be imputed from the SF-36 health instrument using various techniques, typically regression analysis. This paper explored imputation using partial credit Rasc...
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Issues in conducting cross-cultural research: implementation of an agreed international protocol designed by the WHOQOL Group for the conduct of focus groups eliciting the quality of life of older adults
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The SF36 Version 2: critical analyses of population weights, scoring algorithms and population norms
The SF36 Version 2 (SF36V2) is a revision of the SF36 Version 1, and is a widely used health status measure. It is important that guidelines for interpreting scores are available.
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Measuring the value of health-related quality of life
Health-related quality of life is concerned with the relationship between the effect of treatment on the patient’s life with society’s value for this effect. It is only through balancing these two concerns tha...
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Issues in conducting cross-cultural research: implementation of an agreed international procotol designed by the WHOQOL Group for the conduct of focus groups eliciting the quality of life of older adults
Multi-centre and cross-cultural research require the use of common protocols if the results are to be either pooled or compared. All too often adherence to protocols is not discussed in reports and where it is...
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Measuring Social Isolation in Older Adults: Development and Initial Validation of the Friendship Scale
Although there are many excellent published scales measuring social isolation, there is need for a short, user-friendly, stand alone scale measuring felt social isolation with good psychometric properties. Thi...
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Interpreting the WHOQOL-Brèf: Preliminary Population Norms and Effect Sizes
Since publication use of the WHOQOL-Brèf has rapidly risen. However, as yet no population norms have been published as a reference point against which researchers can interpret their findings. This study provi...
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Response categories and anger measurement: do fewer categories result in poorer measurement?
Anger is a key long-term outcome from trauma exposure, regardless of trauma type, and it is implicated as a moderator of response to treatment. It therefore seems important that anger is assessed in both epide...
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A Concise Measure of Anger in Combat-Related Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
There is a need for a brief specific measure of anger for use in assessment of posttraumatic mental health problems. One unpublished short scale is the Dimensions of Anger Reactions (DAR; R. Novaco, 1975). Thi...
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The effect of different methods of collecting data: Mail, telephone and filter data collection issues in utility measurement
When collecting data researchers can interview participants, conduct telephone interviews, or mailout questionnaires. Often mixed methods are used. Whether these methods produce equivalent data is under-resear...
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Quality of life assessment in people living with psychosis
Background: The value of measuring health-related quality of life (HRQoL) among people with persisting psychotic disorders is contentious, despite the call for it in treatment outcome and economic evaluation. Ou...
