Quality of life as an outcome measure in evaluating mental health services: a review of the empirical evidence

MM Barry, A Zissi - Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology, 1997 - Springer
quality of life measures function as valid and sensitive outcome indicators of mental health
services. Findings from the major empirical studies of quality of life … of quality of life measures

Development of a disease specific questionnaire to measure health related quality of life in patients with chronic liver disease

ZM Younossi, G Guyatt, M Kiwi, N Boparai, D King - Gut, 1999 - gut.bmj.com
… While investigators may choose from a variety of validated generic instruments for measurement
of HRQL, these questionnaires may fail to detect small but important improvements in …

The diabetes quality of life measure

AM Jacobson - Handbook of psychology and diabetes, 2013 - taylorfrancis.com
… a subset of measures that addressed issues relevant to quality of life in patients with diabetes.
Specifically, the study examined the relationship of the DQOL to three measures. These …

Quality of life measurement: bibliographic study of patient assessed health outcome measures

A Garratt, L Schmidt, A Mackintosh, R Fitzpatrick - Bmj, 2002 - bmj.com
measures completed on behalf of the patient by proxy and measures of carers' health and
quality of life… We excluded reports that related solely to the use of measures. We assessed the …

Development of a new measure of health-related quality of life for people with dementia: DEMQOL

SC Smith, DL Lamping, S Banerjee… - Psychological …, 2007 - cambridge.org
… We identified the need to develop a scientifically rigorous measure of health-related quality
of life (HRQL) in dementia that would be appropriate for use at all stages of dementia severity …

Measuring quality of life in cancer patients.

K Donovan, RW Sanson-Fisher… - Journal of clinical …, 1989 - ascopubs.org
… aware of the better scales available for measuring quality and use of life. Third, it is important
to note that none of the available measures were entirely adequate. Most notable was the …

Dermatology quality of life scales–a measure of the impact of skin diseases

M Morgan, R McCreedy, J Simpson… - British Journal of …, 1997 - academic.oup.com
… This paper presents a measure based on patient-generated items to assess the impact of
skin diseases on peoples' feelings and activities. The items elicited from the group of …

Procedure for Developing a Quality‐of‐Life Measure for Epilepsy Surgery Patients

BG Vickrey - Epilepsia, 1993 - Wiley Online Library
… This brief measure contains 35 items measuring eight dimensions of HRQOL: general
health perception (five items), energy/fatigue (four items), social function (two items), emotional …

A scale for the measurement of quality of life in adults with asthma

GB Marks, SM Dunn, AJ Woolcock - Journal of clinical epidemiology, 1992 - Elsevier
… The aim of this study was to develop and test an instrument to measure perceived quality of
life in adult patients with asthma. The questionnaire was designed to cover a range of issues …

The Caregiver Quality of Life Index–Cancer (CQOLC) scale: development and validation of an instrument to measure quality of life of the family caregiver of patients …

MA Weitzner, PB Jacobsen, H Wagner, J Friedland… - Quality of life …, 1999 - Springer
… the broader impact of caregiving on quality of life (QoL). The objectives of this study were to
evaluate the reliability and validity of the Caregiver Quality of Life Index–Cancer (CQOLC), a …