OBJECTIVE To test the psychometric properties of the short form of the Chinese version Diabetes Quality of Life for Youth scale (C-DQOLY-SF). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS A 30-item C-DQOLY-SF was administered to 371 adolescents with type 1 diabetes. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis, correlation with HbA(1c), internal consistency, and test-retest reliability were used to examine the...

background and purpose: health related quality of life (hqol) has different dimensions and many factors affect it. the aim of this study was to investigate the association between lifestyle satisfaction and health- related quality of life in the population aged 40 year old and over. the question is, if there is not lifestyle satisfaction, how should be the pattern of tendency to behavioral chan...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Cancer patients have been reported to complain about poor quality of sleep. This study evaluated the quality of sleep in this group, utilizing demographic data and clinical features of the cancers as assessment criteria. A secondary aim was to evaluate the correlation between the self-rated questionnaire for the quality of sleep with other instruments used in measuring pain and...

conclusions the results showed that the elderlies living in daycare centers had better qualities of lives physically and mentally. therefore, to improve their qualities of lives in two general physical and mental domains, items such as providing family communications inside or outside the nursing homes as well as planning to fulfill mental and psychological needs besides physical issues like mo...

OBJECTIVE : To assess the quality of life of knee osteoarthritis patients using the SF-36 questionnaire. METHODS : Cross-sec-tional study with 93 knee osteoarthritis patients. The sample was categorized according to Ahlbӓck score. All individuals were interviewed with the SF-36 questionnaire. RESULTS : The main finding of the study is related to the association of edu-cation level with the ...

BACKGROUND The high emotional burden of physicians working in emergency departments may affect their quality of life perception. AIM To evaluate health related quality of life among resident physicians performing shifts at an emergency department. MATERIAL AND METHODS Seventy one physicians aged 26,3 ± 1,7 years (47 women), working as residents in an emergency department, answered the short...

HYPOTHESIS Preoperative quality-of-life measurement can predict which patients will be satisfied with surgical fundoplication in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). DESIGN Review of a prospectively gathered database. SETTING Tertiary referral center. PATIENTS All patients underwent preoperative physiological testing by upper endoscopy, esophageal manometry, and 24-hou...

PURPOSE It is important to know whether tooth loss has an impact on an individual's quality of life, since tooth loss is common. The aim of this study was to determine whether oral status is associated with general health and related to quality of life. MATERIALS AND METHODS Data of 1,406 subjects aged 60 to 79 years were taken from the Study of Health in Pomerania (SHIP). Sociodemographic (a...