BACKGROUND Although health-related quality of life (HRQOL) instruments may offer satisfactory results, their length often limits the extent to which they are actually applied in clinical practice. Efforts to develop short questionnaires have largely focused on reducing existing instruments. The approaches most frequently employed for this purpose rely on statistical procedures that are consider...

quality of life has emerged as an important concept and outcome in health and health care. this study was performed to evaluate the ability of the health education program to improve quality of life of patients with coronary artery bypass graft surgery (cabg). in pre operation period, 70 patients were randomized in two groups, experimental and control group (35 patients in each). the demographi...

BACKGROUND Preference weighted measures of health related quality of life are necessary for cost effectiveness calculations involving quality of life adjustment. There are conflicting data about the influence of factors such as sociodemographic and health related variables on health preferences. STUDY OBJECTIVE The relative values attached to the items of the Spanish version of the Nottingham...

OBJECTIVE To assess the validity of the Nottingham health profile (NHP) as an indicator of short term outcome of cholecystectomy. DESIGN Prospective assessment of outcome. SETTING One teaching hospital. Patients--161 consecutive patients admitted for cholecystectomy between January 1989 and September 1990. MAIN MEASURES Patients' reported symptoms and self assessed NHP scores before chole...

OBJECTIVE The 15D is a self-administered questionnaire for assessment of health-related quality of life, which contains 15 questions with 5 response options each. This study was conducted to evaluate the reliability and validity of the Japanese 15D. METHODS The subjects were 430 community-dwelling elderly people. Each item of the 15D was scored on a 5-point Likert scale, with level 1 being th...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of a specific physical therapy treatment on stiffness, pain and quality of life (HRQL) in rheumatic patients. METHODS Experimental, prospective, longitudinal and intervention study. It involved 29 individuals with a mean age (SD) of 54.16 (11,9) years, belonging to the Salmantina Association of Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients, randomized into 2 groups: tr...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the ability of the health education program to improve patient's health-related quality of life with coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Seventy patients in pre-operation were randomized into the study, with 35 patients in the experimental and 35 patients in the control group. The demographic information, Sf-36 and Nottingham Health ProfIle questio...

Population screening may harm quality of life (QoL), and traditional health-related QoL tools could be inadequate to evaluate this risk. Two global and generic QoL instruments were developed for studying the QoL consequences of screening (SCREENQOL), and QoL variation in a normal population (SEQOL). SCREENQOL and SEQOL (Self-Evaluation of Quality of Life Questionnaire) are self-administered que...

STUDY OBJECTIVE--The measurement of health outcomes is central to the evaluation of medical treatment and intervention. It is generally acknowledged that such measurement ought to include an assessment of the impact of health care on the quality of life, as well as its quantity. The Health Measurement Questionnaire (HMQ) was developed as a means of identifying respondents in terms of Rosser's c...

BACKGROUND Data on health or health service use are invariably used to test the validity of proxy measures of need, for use in resource allocation formulae. Perceived health state is a good measure to use in this respect, as it is closely linked to perceived need and the decision to consult health services. This being the case, a large community based study was undertaken which collected data o...