This study aimed to identify the characteristics associated to quality of life (QOL) in users of four Basic Health Units (Unidades Básicas de Saúde, UBS) in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. We conducted a cross-sectional study with 930 adult users enrolled in the selected UBS, using a questionnaire containing the WHOQOL-bref instrument and questions about sociodemographic characteristics, lifestyl...

Reviewed and integrated the medical and psychological literature on the assessment of health-related quality of life (QOL) in pediatric populations. Definitions of QOL and the utility, health status, battery, and modular approaches to QOL assessment are presented. Measures currently available for use with children and adolescents were evaluated with respect to psychometric properties, QOL domai...

The purpose of this review is to do a discussion about the use of the HRQoL as a health measure of the populations that enable to analyze its potential use as a measure of development and efficiency of health systems. The principal use of the HRQoL is in health technologies economics evaluation; however this measure can be use in public health when need to know the health state of population. T...

this research studies the impact of e-banking service quality on customer satisfaction and commitment. the aim of study is applicable, and given the importance of topic, 384 customers of saderat bank branches in tehran province who experienced the use of bank electronic services selected by sampling and randomly. by the use of a questionnaire, the data are collected. for evaluating questionnair...

abstract awareness of consumer reasons during nutrition choice is very important, because this decision directly affect their health. since beef is one of the essential goods in consumer basket of goods of iranian households, exploring of factors that influence consumers purchase decisions and intentions toward imported frozen beefs in east azerbaijan province – tabriz city is the purpose of th...

background: nurses are responsible for maintaining and improving the health and quality of life of patients. therefore, it is important to assess the quality of life of nurses in order to improve it. quality of life is affected by many variables  and among them burnout, perceived social support and psychological hardiness are the leading ones. this study aimed at predicting the quality of life ...

backgroundlife expectancy has increased in congenital heart diseases (chd) patients and the interest has risen considering the quality of life (qol). the study aimed to compare patients and proxy-parents reports on chd children' qol.materials and methodsthis cross-sectional study performed on 165 chd patients aged 2-18 years during 2016 using pediatric quality of life 3.0 (pedsql™ 3.0) inv...