Health Qual Life Out
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Health Qual Life Out · Sep 2018
Assessment of quality of life using the EQ-5D-3L instrument for hospitalized patients with femoral fracture in Brazil.
Quality of life has become a key outcome in assessing the effectiveness of treatments and interventions in health. ⋯ This type of assessment may help in decision-making and cost-utility assessments related to orthopedic trauma.
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Health Qual Life Out · Sep 2018
Validation of the Korean version of the avoidance endurance behavior questionnaire in patients with chronic pain.
The avoidance-endurance model suggests both fear-avoidance responses and endurance-related responses could affect the chronicity of pain. Proper pain intervention requires measuring fear-avoidance responses and endurance-related responses but no Korean language questionnaire has yet been made to measure them. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Korean version of the Avoidance-Endurance Behavior Questionnaire (K-AEQ-Behavior) by adapting the behavioral responses of Avoidance-Endurance Questionnaire into Korean language. ⋯ This study suggests that the K-AEQ-Behavior is a reliable and valid instrument for assessing avoidance behavior and endurance behavior in patients with chronic pain.