OBJECTIVE To determine the minimal clinically important difference (MCID) for the health-utility measures EuroQol-5 dimensions (EQ-5D) and Quality of Well Being Self-Administered (QWB-SA) Scale in PTSD patients. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Two hundred patients aged 18 to 65 years with PTSD enrolled in a doubly randomized preference trial (DRPT) examining the treatment and treatment-preference...

INTRODUCTION A proxy version of the EQ-5D-Y, a questionnaire to evaluate the Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in children and adolescents, has recently been developed. There are currently no data on the validity and reliability of this tool. The objective of this study was to analyze the validity and reliability of the EQ-5D-Y proxy version. METHODOLOGY A core set of self-report tools, ...

OBJECTIVES The EQ-5D is a five-dimension multi-attribute questionnaire widely used to calculate quality-adjusted life-year scores. We aimed to describe patients with early arthritis (EA) and EQ-5D < 0, a state worse than death, at baseline and over 2 years and determine aspects of EA associated with a negative score. METHODS EQ-5D scores for 813 patients were longitudinally assessed over 24 m...

BACKGROUND Quality of life is recognized as an important additional outcome measure in clinical trials and health economic evaluations. The EQ-5D is an important generic health outcome instrument often used for economic evaluations as a complement with disease-specific outcome measures. In this study quality of life data was assessed using the EQ-5D-Y (new EQ-5D version for children and adolesc...

Generic health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instruments, such as EQ-5D, are important tools in economic evaluations for measuring disease burden and generating quality-adjusted years (QALYs). Our goal was to compare measurement properties two versions this instrument, the EQ-5D-3L (3L) EQ-5D-5L (5L) atopic dermatitis (AD). We conducted a multicentre cross-sectional survey Hungary, involving ...

Age (years) 32.26 (5.58) 27.19 (5.17) −2.99 .005⁎ Education (years) 12.63 (1.61) 14.60 (2.21) 3.19 .003⁎⁎ Estimated FSIQ 102.24 (14.81) 112.10 (10.22) 2.33 .03⁎ Social EQ 5.11 (3.40) 7.79 (2.27) 2.96 .001⁎ Cognitive EQ 9.89 (6.33) 15.63 (9.89) 3.01 b .001⁎⁎ Emotional EQ 8.89 (4.15) 14.00 (4.19) 3.77 .001⁎⁎ Total EQ 35.47 (11.88) 51.21 (13.06) 3.89 b .001⁎⁎ QIDS 11.37 (5.71) 4.23 (2.65) −4.75 b ...

We discuss a formal many-valued logic called EQlogic which is based on a recently introduced special class of algebras called EQ-algebras. The latter have three basic binary operations (meet, multiplication, fuzzy equality) and a top element and, in a certain sense, generalize residuated lattices. The goal of EQ-logics is to present a possible direction in the development of mathematical logics...