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.
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Health Qual Life Out · Aug 2018
The effects of bone marrow mononuclear cell transplantation on the quality of life of children with cerebral palsy.
Quality of life (QOL) is an important factor in evaluating the effectiveness of treatment in children with cerebral palsy (CP). The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells (BM MNCs) on the QOL of children with CP. ⋯ The QOL of the children with CP was noticeably improved 6 months after BM MNC transplantation and was accompanied by improvements in gross motor function and muscle tone.
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Health Qual Life Out · Aug 2018
Cross cultural adaptation and analysis of psychometric properties of Sinhala version of Menopause Rating Scale.
Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) evaluates eleven menopausal symptoms and health related quality of life (HRQOL) of postmenopausal women under three subscales. In this study we attempted cross cultural adaptation and evaluation of psychometric properties of a Sinhala translation of MRS. ⋯ The Sinhala version of MRS we adapted is an informative tool with high reliability and validity and this tool can be used to evaluate the menopausal symptoms and HRQOL in postmenopausal women conversant in Sinhala.
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Health Qual Life Out · Aug 2018
Coping strategies and quality of life: a longitudinal study of high-grade glioma patient-caregiver dyads.
Among a sample of patient-informal caregiver dyads in the specific context of new diagnoses of high-grade glioma in the time-frame between diagnosis and the third month following diagnosis, we examine whether the coping strategies implemented by the patients and their caregivers influenced their own quality of life (QoL) and the QoL of their relatives. ⋯ The QoL for patients and their informal caregivers since the time of diagnosis is directly related to the use of coping strategies based on social support at time of diagnosis.