background: men, much like women, are faced with age-related menopause-like symptoms as they age. in recent years, increasing attention has been drawn to clinical research into elderly men and their health-related quality of life. the aging male scales (ams) questionnaire is an international tool for assessing the health-related quality of life in elderly men. hence far this questionnaire has n...

OBJECTIVES To describe health-related quality of life in Norwegian patients with narcolepsy compared with data from the general population. PATIENTS AND METHODS Seventy-seven patients with narcolepsy with cataplexy were included in the final analysis. Health-related quality of life was assessed by SF-36 questionnaire. RESULTS Men and women with narcolepsy had lower scores in all SF-36 domai...

Sir, Measurements are very important in all activities so as to differentiate and rank among themselves. Health care services are generally administered by professionals but are received by patients and so they may have different perceptions. Doctors who are providers of health care are almost satisfied with the clinical outcomes. On the contrary, the patients are more sensitive to the treatmen...

Although sociodemographic factors are one aspect of understanding the effects of neighborhood environments on health, equating neighborhood quality with socioeconomic status ignores the important role of physical neighborhood attributes. Prior work on neighborhood environments and health has relied primarily on level of socioeconomic disadvantage as the indicator of neighborhood quality without...

Children's oral health related quality of life Determinants related to subjective and objective orthodontic measures 1. Oral health related quality of life is determined by more than clinical oral health variables only. (This thesis) 2. Oral health related quality of life is related to current oral health experiences as well as oral health experiences from the past. (This thesis) 3. Unfavorable...

diabetes mellitus is a chronic disease of lifelong duration and its management requires a fundamental change in patient’s lifestyle. the aim of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of an interactive health education program on knowledge, behavior, hba1c and health-related quality of life (hrqol) of diabetic patients. eighty patients were randomly selected and assigned to two groups, 40 to the...