BACKGROUND Although numerous health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instruments are available for patients with diabetes, the length of these measures may limit their feasibility to routine practice. Also, these measures do not distinguish items for generic and diabetes-specific HRQoL. This study was aimed to develop a diabetes-specific quality of life questionnaire module (DMQoL) to be in conj...

OBJECTIVES Cataract is a prevalent disease in the elderly, and negatively influences patients' quality of life. This study was conducted to study the application of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument, Short Form (WHOQOL-BREF) to patients with cataract. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 300 patients with cataract were studied in Neyshabur, Iran from July to October 2...

Quality of life research in India on patients with schizophrenia is scarce. Quality of life interview (QOLI), a commonly used instrument in the West has not been used in a developing country like India. The aim was to assess convergence validity of QOLI (modified as per the Indian cultural background). 38 clinically stable outpatients with chronic schizophrenia (as per ICD-10) were administered...

OBJECTIVE To compare the reliability and convergent validity of instruments assessing quality of life in Brazilian older adults. METHODS Cross-sectional study of 278 literate, community-dwelling older adults attending a municipal university for the elderly in Sao Carlos, SP, Southeastern Brazil between 2006 and 2008. The Brazilian versions of the SF-36 and WHOQOL-BREF instruments to assess qu...

Speaker verification systems have shown significant progress and have reached a level of performance that make their use in practical applications possible. Nevertheless, large differences in terms of performance are observed, depending on the speaker or the speech excerpt used. This context emphasizes the importance of a deeper analysis of the system’s performance over average error rate. In t...

OBJECTIVES This study aims to assess the psychometric properties of the Chinese version of the WHOQOL-HIV BREF. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and infectious disease hospitals in three Chinese provinces. PARTICIPANTS Sample of 1100 people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). INTERVENTIONS We recruited 1100 PLWHA to evaluate their quality of lif...

BACKGROUND Whole body vibration exercises (WBVE) improve the quality of life (QoL) of different populations. Metabolic syndrome patients (MetS) may be favored by physical activity. Questionnaires are used to assess the QoL. The aim was to evaluate the QoL of patients with MetS that have undergone WBVE with a brief WHOQOL (WHOQOL-BREF). MATERIAL AND METHODS MetS patients were randomly divided ...

OBJECTIVE Our objectives were: to assess the QOL of Brazilian adolescents with epilepsy with a specific QOL assessment tool; to compare the adolescents with epilepsy and healthy adolescents using a generic QOL assessment tool; to correlate the 2 different QOL assessment tools (the generic and the epilepsy-specific); and to correlate QOL scores of the adolescents with epilepsy obtained by both t...

background : the short form health survey (sf-36) and who quality of life-bref (whoqol-bref) questionnaires are two common tools to assess changes in quality of life (qol) over the course of treatment, especially in patients with coronary artery disease (cad). however, the value of these two instruments among cad patients has not been studied and compared. the objective of the present study was...

BACKGROUND Few studies have evaluated the association between quality of life (QoL) and functional activity limitations (FAL) of leprosy patients as determined by the Screening of Activity Limitation and Safety Awareness scale (SALSA). AIM To identify the association between FALs and the QoL of patients during and post leprosy treatment. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cross-sectional survey of 104 p...