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...

BACKGROUND People's well-being after loss resulting from an earthquake is a concern in countries prone to natural disasters. Most studies on post-earthquake subjective quality of life (QOL) have focused on the effects of psychological impairment and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on the psychological dimension of QOL. However, there is a need for studies focusing on QOL in populations no...

The goal of the study was to assess the quality of life (QOL) and depression and provide further insights into the relationship between QOL and depression among community-dwelling elderly Chinese people. Baseline data were collected from 1168 older adults (aged ≥ 60) in a large, prospective cohort study on measurement and evaluation of health-promoting and health-protecting behaviors interventi...