OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to examine the psychological functioning and quality of life (QOL) of lung transplant candidates and recipients. METHODS The following measures were completed by 36 lung transplant candidates (the pretransplant group [PRE]) and 73 recipients (the posttransplant group [POST]): the Rand-36 Item Health Survey 1.0 (RAND-36), visual analog scale of overall Q...

OBJECTIVE To examine the association between self-reported physician-diagnosed arthritis and health-related quality of life among older Mexican Americans. DESIGN Cross-sectional study involving population-based survey. SETTING Hispanic Established Population for the Epidemiologic Study of the Elderly (EPESE) survey conducted in Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and California. PARTICI...

OBJECTIVE To identify the functional status and quality of life of HAM/TSP patients. METHOD We evaluated prospectively 30 HAM/TSP patients (20 females) seen in the Neuroinfection Clinic of the HUGG. The functional capacity was analyzed by the functional independence measure (FIM), the expanded disability status (EDSS) scale and the Osame's motor disability score (OMDS). The quality of life wa...

BACKGROUND Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) causes a wide range of clinical symptoms and potentially serious complications, but epidemiological data about GERD in China are limited. The aim of this pilot study was to develop and validate a methodology for the epidemiological study of GERD in China. METHODS Regionally stratified, randomized samples of Shanghai residents (n = 919) complet...

This article presents information about the development and evaluation of the SF-36 Health Survey, a 36-item generic measure of health status. It summarizes studies of reliability and validity and provides administrative and interpretation guidelines for the SF-36. A brief history of the International Quality of Life Assessment (IQOLA) Project is also included.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE We sought to compare health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in young adults with ischemic stroke on long-term follow-up with controls and to evaluate HRQoL in clinically relevant patient subgroups. METHODS HRQoL was determined with the use of the 8 subscales of the Short-Form General Health Survey (SF-36). Subgroups of patients were defined by sex, age, functional statu...