Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation
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Randomized Controlled Trial Multicenter Study
Long-term quality of life improvement for chronic intractable back and leg pain patients using spinal cord stimulation: 12-month results from the SENZA-RCT.
Chronic axial low-back pain is a debilitating disorder that impacts all aspects of an afflicted individual's life. Effective, durable treatments have historically been elusive. Interventional therapies, such as spinal cord stimulation (SCS), have shown limited efficacy at best. Recently, a novel treatment, 10 kHz SCS, has demonstrated superior pain relief compared with traditional SCS in a randomized controlled trial (RCT). In this manuscript, we report on the long-term improvements in quality of life (QoL) outcomes for subjects enrolled in this study. ⋯ In addition to superior pain relief, 10 kHz SCS provides long-term improvements in quality of life and functionality for subjects with chronic low-back and leg pain.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Maternal quality of life in routine labor epidural analgesia versus labor analgesia on request: results of a randomized trial.
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the changes in maternal quality of life (QOL) from pregnancy to 6 weeks after delivery between routine labor epidural analgesia (EA) and pain relief on maternal request only. ⋯ Routine administration of EA during labor and pain relief on maternal request only are associated with comparable changes of women's QOL antepartum to 6 weeks postpartum.
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To evaluate the validity and reliability of a newly-translated Thyroid-specific Patient-Reported Outcome short-form (ThyPRO-39) instrument for ethnic-Chinese patients suffering from benign thyroid diseases. ⋯ This was the first psychometric study to translate and adapt the ThyPRO-39 instrument for non-Caucasian patients, and report its validity and reliability for use in Chinese patients with benign thyroid diseases. Given the low item-total correlations in eight items and low internal consistency reliability in respective scales of the ThyPRO-39, we suggest that the improvement of those eight items should produce a more valid and reliable ThyPRO-39 instrument.