BACKGROUND The relationships between working conditions [job demand, job control and social support]; stress, anxiety, and depression; and perceived quality of life factors [physical health, psychological wellbeing, social relationships and environmental conditions] were assessed using a sample of 698 male automotive assembly workers in Malaysia. METHODS The validated Malay version of the Job...

BACKGROUND This paper describes the psychometric properties of the WHOQOL-OLD, an add-on module to the World Health Organization's Quality of Life measure for older people in a South African sample. The WHOQOL-OLD module was further condensed into three short versions which contain the best items of the original module. The psychometric properties associated with the three short versions of the...

Averiguar os fatores quais principais instrumentos utilizados para avaliação de qualidade vida e suas aplicações. estudo bibliográfico do tipo revisão integrativa da literatura, realizou-se levantamento nas bases dados Scielo BVS. Foram analisados 13 artigos científicos no período 2017 à 2022. Utilizou-se seguintes descritores: Qualidade Vida; Indicadores Avaliação Programas Instrumentos Pesqui...

OBJECTIVES to evaluate the older adults' perceptions of their quality of life (QoL) in two long-stay care facilities in Pouso Alegre and Santa Rita in Sapucaí, in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil , and to identify the sociodemographic and health variables which interfere in this perception. METHOD a cross-sectional epidemiological study of 77 older adults resident in institutions. The instru...

OBJECTIVE to assess the quality of life of chronic kidney patients undergoing hemodialysis, using the WHOQOL-bref and WHOQOL-SRPB. METHOD a descriptive and cross-sectional study was undertaken at a kidney replacement therapy service in the interior of the state of SP. The 110 subjects who complied with the inclusion criteria answered the Subject Characterization Instrument, the WHOQOL-bref an...

BACKGROUND There is increasing interest in measuring quality of life (QOL) in clinical settings and in clinical trials. None of the commonly used QOL instruments has been validated for use postnatally. AIM To assess the psychometric properties of the 26-item WHOQOL-BREF (short version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life assessment) among women following childbirth. METHODS Usin...

BACKGROUND Disability caused by migraine may be one of the main causes of burden contributing to poor quality of life (QOL) among migraine patients. Thus, this study aimed to measure QOL among migraine sufferers in comparison with healthy controls. METHODS Female diagnosed migraine patients (n= 100) and healthy controls (n=100) completed the Malay version of the World Health Organization QOL ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of life, efficacy and safety of Warm-Supplementing Kidney Yang (WSKY) added to risperidone in patients with schizophrenia. DESIGN A randomized controlled trial. SETTING The outpatient and inpatient departments of three hospitals. SUBJECTS One hundred and twenty patients with clinically diagnosed schizophrenia with predominantly negative symptoms were incl...