BACKGROUND Venom allergy is a rare but life-threatening disease and may have a considerable impact on the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients, especially children. This paper presents development of the HRQoL scale for children and adolescents with Hymenoptera venom allergy (HVA). METHODS The study sample consisted of 71 children, born between 1992 and 2000, who presented with ...

OBJECTIVES The aims of this analysis were to confirm the UK results in other countries and to explore the possibility of subscales of the 25-Item Macular disease Dependent Quality of Life (MacDQoL) questionnaire. METHODS Two clinical studies were pooled. Principal components analyses (Varimax) were conducted on baseline data from each country and from all combined. Factorial structures were c...

Self-efficacy in essential hypertension can be measured using scales, such as the "Hypertension Self-Care Profile" (HTN-SCP) questionnaire. It assesses "Behavior", "Motivation", and "Self-efficacy" in 3 domains, respectively. This study aimed to validate the Mandarin version of HTN-SCP instrument (HTN-SCP-Mn) targeted at patients of Chinese ethnicity with hypertension.Our study recruited Chines...

The main purpose of the present study is to examine the role of TV satellite programs on family cohesion in Yazd city. The study was conducted as a survey. The sample size of divorce of people were 211 and for married ones were 323. Those divorced respondents were selected using stratified sampling and married respondents were selected using random sampling. The instrument used here was a quest...

BACKGROUND Perception of quality of life may differ depending on the perspective. The aim of the study was to assess the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the 'TOlerability and quality Of Life' (TOOL) questionnaire, a specific self-rated instrument to evaluate the impact of side effects of antipsychotic drugs on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The questionnaire consists ...

BACKGROUND The central factor influencing therapeutic decisions in essential tremor (ET) is the functional impact of the tremor. Neither the neurological examination nor computerized tremor analysis measures function. Questionnaires may assess function, but data are highly subjective. Performance-based tests of functional impairment provide an alternative means with which to assess the function...

BACKGROUND Mood instability (MI) and irritability are related to depression but are not considered core symptoms. Instruments typically code clusters of symptoms that are used to define syndromic depression, but the place of MI and irritability has been under-investigated. Whether they are core symptoms can be examined using Rasch analysis. METHOD We used the UK Psychiatric Morbidity Survey 2...

PURPOSE To investigate the weight loss effects with higher sensitivity, disease specific quality of life (QoL) instruments were important. The Moorehead-Ardelt quality of life questionnaire II (MA-II) is widely used, because it was simple and validated the several languages. The aims of present study was performed the translation of MA-II Korean version and the validation compared with EuroQol-...

BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life is usually reported for specific rather than heterogeneous populations such as those treated in routine anesthesia practice. The 8-item short-form generic health-related quality-of-life questionnaire (SF-8) is a candidate instrument for this setting. The authors evaluated the feasibility, reliability, validity, and responsiveness to change of the Spanis...

OBJECTIVES To modify the existing 45-item Velopharyngeal Insufficiency (VPI) Quality-of-Life (QOL) instrument (VPIQL), to assess the modified instrument for reliability, and to provide further validation. DESIGN Validation convenience sample from a previously conducted pilot study. SETTING Two academic tertiary referral medical centers. PARTICIPANTS Deidentified data were used from 29 pat...