BACKGROUND An estimated 20%-40% of cancer patients will develop brain metastases. Whole-brain radiotherapy (WBRT) is the standard treatment for patients with brain metastases. Although WBRT can reduce neurologic symptoms, the median survival following WBRT is between 3 and 6 months. Given this limited survival, it is important to consider quality of life (QOL) when treating patients with brain ...

The purpose of this cross-sectional, correlational study was to describe the quality of life (QOL) in persons with end stage renal disease and explore factors that may affect QOL. Biologicalfunction, symptoms,function, general health perception, and characteristics of the individual and environment explained 61% of the variability in overall QOL. Only anxiety, depression, and general health per...

Quality of life (QoL) is a very important endpoint in trials reporting the efficacy of catheter ablation in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). It has been shown that AF ablation significantly improves the QoL, but recent studies question the usefulness of the most used generic QoL instrument in AF patients. The complexity of the disease makes it mandatory to employ disease specific instrum...

Background Quality of life (QOL) has become an increasingly recognized component of recovery for women with substance use disorders (SUDs) [1-3]. However, little is known about different trajectories of QOL among women with SUD over time. This study: a) identified heterogeneous QOL trajectories; b) examined predictors related to QOL trajectories; and c) investigated the association between QOL ...

During the last fifteen to twenty years Quality of Life (QOL) has been recognized as an important outcome of the care for people with dementia, but the first instrument to assess QOL in dementia did not appear until the late 1990s. Many researchers felt the need for such an instrument, as most behavioral observation scales focus on behavioral and psychological symptoms (BPSD), not on positive a...

Background and Objectives: Reliance on almighty God in all situations makes people’s hearts peaceful and this inner peace gives hope and improves their quality of life (QOL). The present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of group training of reliance therapy components (Tawakkul) on QOL and resilience of mothers of children with learning disabilities in Zahedan, Iran. Methods: The cur...

Introduction: Breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in women with an increasing outbreak. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between defensive styles and Islamic quality of life (QoL) with death obsession in women with breast cancer. Methods: This research was a correlational study. The statistical population of the study included 220 female patients with...

This study sought to examine quality of life (QoL) in clinic-referred children and adolescents (n = 59, M age = 11.4+/-2.6 years) with a chronic tic disorder. The QoL scores for tic patients were lower than for healthy controls but higher than for the psychiatric sample on the majority of domains. Children's self-reported QoL scores and a measure of tic severity were moderately and inversely co...