BACKGROUND Research on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among older adult cancer survivors is mostly confined to breast cancer, prostate cancer, colorectal cancer, and lung cancer, which account for 63% of all prevalent cancers. Much less is known about HRQOL in the context of less common cancer sites. METHODS HRQOL was examined with the 36-Item Short Form Health Survey, version 1, and ...

The Oxford-12 Item Knee Score is a recently developed and validated patient-completed outcome measure designed specifically for use with knee arthroplasty in the United Kingdom. We have translated this questionnaire into Swedish and tested the validity and reliability of the translated version in a cross-sectional study by a postal survey to 1,200 randomly selected patients from the Swedish Kne...

objective: acceptance-based behavior therapy (abbt) is a new psychotherapy for generalized anxiety disorder (gad). the current study intended to compare severity of symptoms, worry and quality of life of gad female patients between abbt and control. methods: this study was a randomized clinical trial. the sample included 18 women with gad referred to psychiatrists in isfahan, iran. patients wer...

OBJECTIVES This study compared health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and depression among individuals with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) and those at low or high risk for T2D. METHODS Respondents in a population-based US 2004 survey reported whether they had T2D (n = 3530) or risk factors for T2D [abdominal obesity, body mass index (BMI) >/= 28 kg/m(2), dyslipidaemia, hypertension and histo...

Title: Differentiating Intraprofessional Attitudes toward Paradigms in Health Care Delivery among Chiropractic Factions: Results from a Randomly Sampled Survey Authors: Marion McGregor ([email protected]) Aaron A Puhl ([email protected]) Christine Reinhart ([email protected]) H Stephen Injeyan ([email protected]) David Soave ([email protected]) Version: 2 Date: 7 October 2013 Author's respo...

OBJECTIVES To assess the provision of basic emergency obstetric and newborn care (BEmONC), knowledge of high-risk pregnancies and referral capacity at health centres in Southern Ethiopia. DESIGN A facility-based survey, using an abbreviated version of the Averting Maternal Death and Disability needs assessment tool for emergency obstetric and newborn care. Modules included infrastructure, sta...

Objective: To evaluate the reliability and validity of the Thai version of the Kidney Disease Quality of Life 36 (KDQOL-36) questionnaire. The KDQOL-36 questionnaire consists of the short-form 12 health survey, and three dimensions of kidney disease questionnaires (the Symptom/ Problem List, Effects of Kidney Disease on Daily Life, and Burden of Kidney Disease). Methods: Subjects were 167 hemod...

The Medicare Health Outcomes Survey (HOS) uses the Medical Outcomes Study (MOS) SF-36 among beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare managed care programs, whereas the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Veterans Health Administration (VHA) has administered the Veterans version of the SF-36 for quality management purposes. The Veterans version is comparable to the MOS version for 6 of the 8 scales, ...

Critical limb ischemia (CLI) has a poor prognosis and adversely affects patients' quality of life (QOL). Therapeutic angiogenesis may improve mobility, mortality, and QOL in CLI patients. However, the effectiveness of gene therapy on such patients' QOL is unknown. DVC1-0101, a non-transmissible recombinant Sendai virus vector expressing human fibroblast growth factor-2 gene, demonstrated safety...