BACKGROUND Outcomes projects can be a catalyst for determining disease- and treatment-related consequences for patients with rare tumors. The Adult Ependymoma Outcomes (AEO) survey uses self-reported experience to evaluate how this tumor affects patient groups throughout the illness trajectory. METHODS Patients completed the AEO survey via a Web-based portal. The survey included questions on ...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to examine the relationship between internalization of weight bias, which has been linked to specific negative mental health outcomes, and overall mental and physical health among overweight patients with binge eating disorder (BED). The role of depressive symptoms as a potential mediator in this relationship was also tested. METHODS In a cross-sectional study, 255 ...

results at follow-up, the nonoperatively treated patients had better functional outcomes than the operatively treated patients. nonoperatively treated patients also scored better on pain intensity and satisfaction. there were no significant differences in cesd, pcs, and sf-36 physical- and mental health summary scores between cohorts. conclusions the results of this study suggest that operative...

During the administration of President George W Bush, senior personnel of the American Psychological Association (APA) secretly colluded with US officials in the White House, the Department of Defense, and the Central Intelligence Agency to support the ethical justification of the spy agency’s “enhanced” interrogation program, while the APA misled the public about its involvement, says a report...

Objectives—To introduce the UK SF36 Version II (SF36-II), and to (a) gain population norms for the UK SF36-II in a large community sample as well as to explore the instrument’s internal consistency reliability and construct validity, and (b) to derive the Physical Component Summary (PCS) and Mental Component Summary (MCS) algorithms for the UK SF36-II. Design—Postal survey using a questionnaire...

BACKGROUND Exercise may be effective in treating depression, but trials testing its effect in depressed women are rare. AIM To compare the effect of exercise of preferred intensity with exercise of prescribed intensity in thirty-eight women living with depression. METHODS A Pragmatic RCT of 12 sessions of exercise at preferred intensity compared with 12 sessions at prescribed intensity. Bec...

Project was initiated, under the leadership of John Ware of the Health Institute at Boston's New England Medical Center. Its goals were to translate and validate, and obtain normative data using the Medical Outcomes Study 36-item Short Form (SF-36), a generic measure of health status or health-related quality of life for use in international studies. 1 At that time, parts of the IQOLA Project w...

background: as a disease of motor nervous system (motor neuron  disease), amyotrophic  lateral  sclerosis (als)  has  a great  impact  on  several  aspects  of  quality  of  life (qol). generic questionnaires of qol do not address all the especial features  of als and  therefore  translation  and  validation of disease specific questionnaires such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis assessment  qu...

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The aim of this study was to determine the natural history of growth and quality of life (QoL) outcomes for vestibular schwannoma (VS) managed conservatively, and to validate the disease-specific Penn Acoustic Neuroma Quality-of-Life (PANQOL) scale in French language. We retrospectively studied 26 patients with VS managed conservatively. Patient characteristics and radiological findings were co...