OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to examine the presence of fibromyalgia (FM) in elderly adults and to evaluate the impact of the severity of FM on quality of life. METHODS A total of 100 patients between 65 and 80 years of age were included. The main admission diagnosis of the patients was recorded. Presence of FM was evaluated based on 1990 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) ...

Objective: Pain is one of the most important outcomes in RA. Therefore, as objective as possible assessment of pain is necessary for reliable clinical evaluation and effective treatment planning. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate three pain measures in the sample of 151 newly-diagnosed RA-patients. More specifically, this study evaluates the construct validity of pain instruments...

The prevalence of distress in aspects of perceived health and its relation to involvement of poliomyelitis sequelae were studied with the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) in 113 outpatients (mean age 57 years). The leisure and employment situation was also recorded. Most distress was found in the NHP dimensions physical mobility, pain and energy, and least distress in social isolation. Most heal...

AIM To describe self-perceived health status and quality of life in noninstitutionalized persons older than 65 years in two health care districts in Madrid (central Spain). DESIGN Descriptive study based on home interviews by investigators trained in the administration of the questionnaires. SETTING Health care districts 2 and 4 in Madrid; community level. PARTICIPANTS Of a sample of 2002...

Questions to be answered by this study were: (1) what is the health-related quality of life (HRQL) of migraine and tension headache patients who consult their general practitioner, and (2) what are the unique contributions of the perceptual and emotional components of headaches to the HRQL. The Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) was used to measure the HRQL of patients with migraine (n = 27), tens...

OBJECTIVE There is a consensus on the need for a more thorough assessment of outcome of RA from the perspective of those who experience the disease. Our objective was to assess the health- related quality of life (HR-QOL) of RA patients by the Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), the measurement of subjective experienced distress. METHODS One hundred and nineteen consecutive out-patients were cro...

OBJECTIVES To describe working conditions in small companies in the food and beverage sector and to assess the health and the work ability of the selected workers. METHODS Social security data and records from periodic medical examinations were analyzed. For the observations of the work conditions, we used a data sheet created specifically for this study to apply the Short Ergonomic Assessmen...

BACKGROUND Appropriate instruments for the assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) domains are useful for planning therapeutic interventions for individuals with stroke. The generic quality of life (QOL) instruments, Short Form Health Survey-36 (SF-36) and Nottingham Health Profile (NHP), have been frequently employed in the Brazilian literature. However, the literature is still sc...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the impact of the Health Education Authority's 20 hour Look After Your Heart health promotion course on a large group of retired women. DESIGN Three groups of retired women were compared: group 1 women, drawn from 12 retirement groups, participated in the programme; group 2, drawn randomly from the same groups, declined; group 3, selected randomly from 12 different reti...

This study aims at evaluating the effects of lung volume reduction versus respiratory rehabilitation on quality of life, assessed by three different questionnaires. Sixty emphysematous patients were randomised by computer to receive either surgery (n = 30) or rehabilitation (n = 30). Life quality was evaluated by the Nottingham Health Profile, the Short Form (SF)-36 item and the St George's que...