Development of a brief measure to assess quality of life in obesity

RL Kolotkin, RD Crosby, KD Kosloski… - Obesity …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Quality of Life questionnaire (IWQOL) was the first self‐report instrument specifically developed
to assess the effect of obesity on quality of life. … sensitive brief measure of quality of life in …

A short measure of quality of life in older age: The performance of the brief Older People's Quality of Life questionnaire (OPQOL-brief)

A Bowling, M Hankins, G Windle, C Bilotta… - Archives of gerontology …, 2013 - Elsevier
… recognized priority, requiring valid measurement. We present a short version of the
established Older People's Quality of Life questionnaire (OPQOL-brief). The full OPQOL-35 was …

Using the 12-item Short Form health survey (SF-12) to measure quality of life among older people

U Jakobsson - Aging clinical and experimental research, 2007 - Springer
… The SF-12 is preferable, compared with other longer versions of measures of quality of life,
for use among the elderly, because it is short (fewer questions make it easier to answer) and …

A new short form individual quality of life measure (SEIQoL-DW): application in a cohort of individuals with HIV/AIDS

AM Hickey, G Bury, CA O'Boyle, F Bradley, FD O'Kelly… - Bmj, 1996 - bmj.com
brief measure, the SEIQoL-DW, which is derived from the schedule for evaluation of individual
quality of life … clinical application of the measure, assessing the quality of life of a cohort of …

[HTML][HTML] … , construct and criterion validity of the KIDSCREEN-10 score: a short measure for children and adolescents' well-being and health-related quality of life

U Ravens-Sieberer, M Erhart, L Rajmil, M Herdman… - Quality of life …, 2010 - Springer
Background To assess the criterion and construct validity of the KIDSCREEN-10 well-being
and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) score, a short version of the KIDSCREEN-52 and …

Who should measure quality of life?

J Addington-Hall, L Kalra - Bmj, 2001 - bmj.com
… for whom information on quality of life is most needed to inform … measure quality of life is
addressed. We consider the advantages and disadvantages of using proxies to rate quality of life

Neuro-QOL: brief measures of health-related quality of life for clinical research in neurology

D Cella, JS Lai, CJ Nowinski, D Victorson, A Peterman… - Neurology, 2012 - AAN Enterprises
… We report on the development and initial validation of 13 brief measures of QOL for adults
with neurologic disorders. Each Neuro-QOL short form comprises a set of items that have …

Evaluation of the short-form 36-item questionnaire to measure health-related quality of life in patients with COPD

DA Mahler, JI Mackowiak - Chest, 1995 - Elsevier
… Health-related quality of life (HRQL) is an important domain for measuring the impact of
chronic disease.1, 2 Both general and disease-specific instruments have been used to measure

Developing short‐form measures of oral health‐related quality of life

D Locker, PF Allen - Journal of public health dentistry, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
… with a simple scoring system that could be used readily in clinical contexts to measure changes
short form and compares its measurement properties with those of the original short form …

Short-Form 12 or Short-Form 36 to measure quality-of-life changes in dialysis patients?

WL Loosman, T Hoekstra, S van Dijk… - Nephrology Dialysis …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Short-Form 36 (SF-36) is a self-reported questionnaire that is frequently being used to assess
health-related quality of life (HRQOL). SF-36 has been validated in the general population …