Anxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by somatic, emotional, cognitive and behavioral component. Emotional intelligence (EI) which defines as the ability to perceive, monitor, employ and manage emotions within one’s and others, is strongly related to healthy psychological functioning. Various studies have been conducted in this field that reveal the role and importanc...

BACKGROUND The objective of this work was to evaluate the time course of clinical and health-related quality of life outcomes of long-stay ICU survivors' and caregivers' burden. METHODS The study included 23 subjects of mixed diagnosis (66 ± 11 y, body mass index 26.5 ± 5.6 kg/m(2)) with a recent episode of acute respiratory failure needing in-hospital rehabilitation. Subjects and caregivers ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate the association between health-related quality of life (HRQL) and disease severity using lung function measures. METHODS A survey was performed in subjects with COPD in Sweden. 168 subjects (70 women, mean age 64.3 years) completed the generic HRQL questionnaire, the Short Form 36 (SF-36), the disease-specific HRQL questionnaire; the St George'...

Materials and methods 110 (78%) of 140 (7 men) patients with AIS treated with the Boston brace 12-28 years previously responded to a long-term follow-up examination. Patients were evaluated either by clinical and radiological examination (n = 66), postal questionnaire, or telephone interview. All patients answered a standardized questionnaire including demographics, work status, treatment, Oswe...

BACKGROUND The objectives of the study were to develop web-based Spanish and Catalan versions of the EQ-5D-Y, and to compare scores and psychometric properties with the paper version. METHODS Web-based and paper versions of EQ-5D-Y were included in a cross-sectional study in Palafolls (Barcelona), Spain and administered to students (n = 923) aged 8 to 18 years from 2 primary and 1 secondary s...

The present study is the first one to investigate the impacts of depression and somatization on the disease severity and quality of life (QoL) in patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS). The Korean version of National Institutes of Health (NIH)- Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (CPSI) for severity of CP/CPPS. Korean version of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PH...

BACKGROUND An individualized patient reported outcome (PRO) has recently been recommended within LBP research, but no study has evaluated this instrument with commonly applied PROs. Moreover, the impact of psychological factors has mostly been assessed for disease-specific instruments. The objective of this study was to assess the predictive value of illness perceptions, pain catastrophizing an...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this article is to discuss methods used to analyze health-related quality of life (HRQoL) data from randomized controlled trials (RCTs) for decision analytic models. The analysis presented in this paper was used to provide HRQoL data for the ivabradine health technology assessment (HTA) submission in chronic heart failure. METHODS We have used a large, longitudinal Eur...

Condyloma acuminata (CA) is a sexually transmitted disease that affects quality of life (QOL). CECA10 is an English-language questionnaire for assessing QOL in patients with CA, but there is no equivalent in China. This study aimed to develop a validated and reliable Chinese version of CECA10.The Chinese CECA10 was developed from the English version by forward translation, back translation, com...