the purpose of this study is to evaluate the ability of the health education program to improve patient's health-related quality of life with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. seventy patients in pre-operation were randomized into the study, with 35 patients in the experimental and 35 patients in the control group. the demographic information, sf-36 and nottingham health profile questi...

Although worse Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) among women has been widely described, it remains unclear whether this is due to differential reporting patterns, or whether there is a real difference in health status. The objective of this study was to evaluate to what extent gender differences in HRQL among the elderly might be explained by differences in performance-based functional capa...

OBJECTIVE To compare a simple transition question with a standard measure of distress [the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP)] in the measurement of change in health of patients attending general practitioners. SETTINGS AND SUBJECTS Two hundred and thirty one patients attending for acute or chronic illness, or follow-up consultations in a single general practice. MEASURES Patients completed th...

OBJECTIVE To compare the usefulness of the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) and the Short Form 36 (SF-36) as general outcome measures for chronic stroke patients with respect to the response rate, internal consistency reliability, validity analyses, and agreement in similar domains of the 2 instruments. METHODS In this prospective study, 90 consecutive stroke patients attending the Neurology o...

[Purpose] To describe the functional consequences of patients with cardiac diseases and analyze associations between activity limitations and quality of life. [Subjects and Methods] Seventy subjects (mean age: 60.1±12.0 years) were being treated by Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Cardiology Departments were included in the study. Activity limitations and participation restrictions as p...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine the physiologic factors that influence the health-related quality of life (HRQL) in patients with stable COPD and to identify the factors that most influence HRQL. METHODS The Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) was used as a general HRQL measure and the Chronic Respiratory Disease Questionnaire (CRQ) was used as a disease-specific HRQL measure to investigate 132 pati...

The Nottingham Health Profile (NHP [1]) is a widely used instrument to measure subjective health in clinical research. However, there are no age-specific norms for older adults in Germany. The present study was conducted to analyze the psychometric properties of the German version of the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) in older people. Age-specific reference values for the elderly are presented...

BACKGROUND In longitudinal studies on Health Related Quality of Life (HRQL) it frequently occurs that patients have one or more missing forms, which may cause bias, and reduce the sample size. Aims of the present study were to address the problem of missing data in the field of lung transplantation (LgTX) and HRQL, to compare results obtained with different methods of analysis, and to show the ...

BACKGROUND Studies on health-related quality of life (HRQOL) are missing for nursing home residents independent from their health conditions or interventions after admission. Our aim was to analyse if the care dependency of nursing home residents influence their HRQOL and to describe HRQOL of nursing home residents at the time of admission. METHOD Eleven German nursing homes were randomly sel...

This article seeks to evaluate the reliability, internal consistency and accuracy of the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), namely a quality of life (QL) instrument for individuals after suffering a stroke. This cross-sectional study was carried out in the communities of Recife in the State of Pernambuco. The sample was composed of 53 individuals at the chronic stroke phase. After checking the co...