BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life, an important outcome measure in health interventions, can readily be assessed by questionnaire. Two widely evaluated examples are the Short Form 36 (SF-36) and Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) questionnaires, but as yet the discriminatory power of these tools has not been compared in a large population of patients with coronary heart disease. METHODS ...

K. Almond*, P. Bikker, M. Lomax, M. E. Symonds and A. Mostyn Academic Division of Child Health, School of Clinical Sciences, E floor East Block, University Hospital, Nottingham NG7 2UH, UK Division of Nutritional Sciences, School of Biosciences, North Lab, University of Nottingham, Sutton Bonnington Campus, Loughborough LE12 5RD, UK Schothorst Feed Research, Lelystad, The Netherlands School of ...

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy a home-based breathing exercise program on dyspnea, quality life, depression and sleeping disorders in patients with COVID-19 after discharge from hospital.
 Methods: completed total 60 participants. intervention group (n=39) received homed-based including controlled techniques low-intensity upper lower extremity exercises. control...

It is important to identify unknown and unquantified benefits and risks of therapeutic intervention that are reflected in the quality of life. This is especially important when the benefit : risk analysis is not clearly in favour of treatment. Quality of life is defined and target areas identified. The steps in the measurements of quality of life are discussed, including the validity, repeatabi...

1 Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology/Physiology and Pharmacology, Children’s Health Research Institute, Western University, London, ON, Canada N6A 5C Center for Pregnancy and Newborn Research, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229-3309, USA Academic Child Health, School of Clinical Scie...

Between 1992 and 1994 we performed a prospective study of the effect of total knee replacement (TKR) on the health status of 119 patients over the age of 80 years who had had a primary unilateral TKR. The Nottingham Health Profile was used to assess this before and at three and 12 months after operation. We found a significant improvement in the scores for pain, emotional reaction, sleep and ph...

OBJECTIVES To consider whether the Barthel Index alone provides sufficient information about the long term outcome of stroke. DESIGN Cross sectional follow up study with a structured interview questionnaire and measures of impairment, disability, handicap, and general health. The scales used were the hospital anxiety and depression scale, mini mental state examination, Barthel index, modified...

Quality of Life (QoL) is decreased in multiple sclerosis (MS), but studies about the impact of sleep disorders (SD) on health-related quality of Life (HRQoL) are lacking. From our original cohort, a cross-sectional polysomnographic (PSG) study in consecutive MS patients, we retrospectively analysed the previously unpublished data of the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP). Those MS patients sufferi...

Aim: The study aimed to determine the effect of Covid 19 Fear on Quality Life in Hemodialysis Patients. 
 Method: Descriptive and cross-sectional was conducted Turkey. research between October 2020 January 2021. Data were collected from four dialysis centers. A webbased survey used. Scale Nottingham Health Profile tolls Results: It found that fear patients increased due risk therefore thei...