BACKGROUND The incidence of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis (ZCL) makes it the most widespread parasitic disease in Tunisia and the Arab world. Yet, few studies have addressed its psychological and psychosocial effects. The purpose of this study was to examine the psychosocial impact of ZCL scars among Tunisian women. METHODS We conducted an exploratory study, we administered Revised Illness...

This study investigated effect of a 6-week telephysiotherapy programme on quality of life (QoL) of patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA). Fifty patients with knee OA were randomly and equally assigned into two treatment groups: clinic group (CG) and telephysiotherapy group (TG). The CG received physiotherapist-administered osteoarthritis-specific exercises in the clinic thrice weekly for 6 wee...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of life of firefighters and rescue professionals, and characterize their socio-demographic, health, work and lifestyle profile. METHODS Cross-sectional study that used a socio-demographic, lifestyle, health, work data questionnaire and the WHOQOL-BREF quality of life aspects, in Fire Department bases, Civil Air Patrol Group of the Military Police and Rescue G...

The aim of the present study was to investigate what kinds of social supports contribute to the higher quality of life (QOL) of home care patients with intractable neurological disease. We investigated the World Health Organization Quality of Life-BREF (WHOQOL-BREF) and social supports to 74 patients with intractable neurological disease in a city of the Aichi prefecture, Japan. Association bet...

L’objectif de ce projet était de mettre à l’essai le WHOQOL-100, un instrument servant à évaluer la qualité de vie (QDV) conçu pour faciliter les comparaisons interculturelles. L’instrument a été testé à partir d’un échantillon de commodité de 144 personnes. L’âge moyen des participants était de 58 ans, et 41 % d’entre eux étaient des femmes. La fidélité de test-retest était de 0,86 pour le dom...

Chang et al (November 1999)1 studied the usefulness of four health-related quality of life (QOL) instruments, two generic and two respiratory-specific measures, in a group of interstitial lung disease patients (33 idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis [IPF], 10 sarcoidosis, and 7 miscellaneous), and concluded that the Medical Outcome Study Short Form 36 (SF-36) and the St. George’s Respiratory Question...

Αlcohol abuse/dependence seriously affects quality of life (QoL). The AlQoL-9 scale, derived from the generic instrument SF-36, is the only instrument in the international literature which is specific as a measure of QoL for alcohol-dependent patients. It can provide health carers with valuable information regarding the needs of alcoholic individuals and the effects of therapeutic interventions...

Projeções indicam que em 2070 a população idosa brasileira alcance 35%. Contudo, o aumento do número de idosos não significa garantia Qualidade Vida, pois envelhecimento mundial, embora seja considerado como uma conquista da modernidade, é igual todas as sociedades. Trata-se revisão narrativa literatura. A busca considerou publicações dos últimos quinze anos, período abrangência validação instr...