Inflammatory bowel disease: developing a short disease specific scale to measure health related quality of life

GD Smith, R Watson, KR Palmer - International journal of nursing studies, 2002 - Elsevier
… with measures of quality of life and psychological morbidity and a disease specific measure.
… correlate with other measures of disease activity, quality of life and psychological morbidity. …

Measurement of short-term changes in dyspnea and disease-specific quality of life following an acute COPD exacerbation

SD Aaron, KL Vandemheen, JJ Clinch, J Ahuja… - Chest, 2002 - Elsevier
… To determine whether currently available measurement tools can be used to obtain valid
measurements of short-term changes in dyspnea and disease-specific quality of life (QOL) in …

A measure of quality of life after abdominal surgery

DR Urbach, JL Harnish, JH McIlroy, DL Streiner - Quality of Life Research, 2006 - Springer
measure of shortterm health-related quality of life after abdominal surgery that is intended for
use as an outcome measure … Our measure is reliable, and has evidence of construct validity…

How to measure the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on quality of life: COV19-QoL–the development, reliability and validity of a new scale

S Repišti, N Jovanović, MR Kuzman, S Medved… - Global …, 2020 - sciendo.com
… Objective: The primary objective of this paper is to present a short measure of perceptions
on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on quality of life, along with analysis of its reliability …

The Short Health Scale: a valid and reliable measure of health related quality of life in English speaking inflammatory bowel disease patients

E McDermott, D Keegan, K Byrne… - Journal of Crohn's …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
… to assess quality of life in patients with chronic diseases, including IBD. Quality of life scales
… Many early quality of life scales for chronic disease involved extensive questions relating to …

To measure quality of life: relevance and use in the psychiatric domain

T Sørensen, S Næss - Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 1996 - Taylor & Francis
Quality of life as defined in this paper is a subjective psychological phenomenon. What we
measure. … If the demands are too small, we will react with boredom; if they are too big, anxiety …

Measuring the quality of life of cancer patients: a concise QL-index for use by physicians

WO Spitzer, AJ Dobson, J Hall, E Chesterman… - Journal of chronic …, 1981 - Elsevier
… From the pool of remaining acceptable items pretested we used ten to create MULTISCALE,
a longer questionnaire to measure quality of life. Each item had four options and was scored …

Validation of an instrument to measure voice-related quality of life (V-RQOL)

ND Hogikyan, G Sethuraman - Journal of voice, 1999 - Elsevier
Measurement of quality of life has not been a traditional part of the evalua… measuring V-RQOL
using a population of 109 voice and 22 non-voice patients. The 10-item V-RQOL measure

[HTML][HTML] Short health scale: A valid measure of health-related quality of life in Korean-speaking patients with inflammatory bowel disease

SK Park, BM Ko, HJ Goong, JY Seo… - World journal of …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… Core tip: The short health scale (SHS) is a new, simple, four-part visual analog scale …
designed to assess the impact of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) on health-related quality of life (…

The use of short-form quality of life questionnaires to measure the impact of imipramine on women with urge incontinence

PJ Woodman, CA Misko, JR Fischer - International Urogynecology Journal, 2001 - Springer
… As an example of how these short-form QOL questionnaires can be utilized to measure
This paper describes the use of these short-form QOI Questionnaires to measure response …