The World Health Organisation Quality of Life (WHOQOL) questionnaires are widely used around the world and can claim strong cross-cultural validity due to their development in collaboration with international field centres. To enhance conceptual equivalence of quality of life across cultures, optional national items are often developed for use alongside the core instrument. The present study ou...

BACKGROUND This cross-sectional study examined the relationship between patients' aerobic fitness and general health perceptions and how they correspond with functional aerobic impairment (%FAI) and quality of life (QOL). METHODS One hundred and two patients were administered a version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life brief form questionnaire (WHOQOL-BREF). Then, each patient ...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the quality of life (QOL) of parents of children with asthma and to analyze the internal consistency of the generic QOL tool World Health Organization Quality of Life, abbreviated version (WHOQOL-BREF). METHODS We evaluated the QOL of parents of asthmatic and healthy children aged between 8-16, using the generic WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire. We also evaluated the internal c...

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...

OBJECTIVE The study aimed to validate a new, multidimensional, multilingual instrument (the WHOQOL-100) for assessing QOL in chronic pain patients. METHODS Chronic pain patients (N = 106) who agreed to participate in an established pain management program (PMP) were assessed for quality of life (QOL) before and one month after the intervention. The WHOQOL-100 is a generic profile containing 2...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the influence of carotid artery stenting (CAS) on the cognition and quality of life of elderly patients with severe stenosis of the internal carotid artery. MATERIAL/METHODS 65 elderly patients with symptomatic severe stenosis of internal carotid artery were recruited into 2 groups: the pharmacotherapy group (n=29) and the CAS group (n=36). ...

BACKGROUND The WHOQOL-BREF is a generic questionnaire to measure quality of life created by the Study Group on Quality of Life of the World Health Organization. AIM To adapt and evaluate the psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the WHOQOL-BREF instrument in a group of Chilean older subjects living in Metropolitan Santiago. MATERIAL AND METHODS A linguistic-cultural adaptation o...

PURPOSE Postoperative radiotherapy for breast cancer has a number of associated complications. This study examined whether supervised moderate-intensity exercise could mitigate the complications that occur during radiotherapy. PATIENTS AND METHODS Forty women were randomized before radiotherapy after various operations for breast cancer. Seventeen patients who were assigned to the exercise gr...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the correlation between changes in symptoms and changes in self-reported quality of life among Chinese patients with schizophrenia who were switched from a typical antipsychotic to olanzapine during usual outpatient care. PATIENTS AND METHODS This post hoc analysis was conducted using data from the Chinese subgroup (n=475) of a multicountry, 12...

BACKGROUND This study evaluates the psychometric properties of the Malay version of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS-M) among patients with schizophrenia in a psychiatric outpatient clinic. METHODS Ninety-nine schizophrenia outpatients were administered the Malay version of the Brief Psychiatric Rating Scale (BPRS-M), Malay version of Positive and Negative Syndrome Scale (PANSS), Mala...