The purpose of this article is to analyze how the concept of quality of life (QOL) is currently
being defined and used within health care. An on-line search of the phrase QOL in Medline …

Purpose: To identify major problems that obscure understanding of quality of life; to
differentiate quality of life from other closely related concepts, and to offer a definition of …

Health care providers play a key role in providing adequate symptom management and
promoting quality of life during chronic illness. Several studies have noted that adults with …

The aim of the study was to evaluate the effects of the use of progressive muscle relaxation
training (PMRT) on anxiety and quality of life in colorectal cancer patients after stoma …

The Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy (FACIT) system provides a general,
multidimensional measure of health-related quality of life (FACT-G) that can be augmented …

purpose: The purpose of the study was to determine the relationship between life‐stage
variables (ie, age at diagnosis and years of survival) and quality‐of‐life (QOL) outcomes in …

Social norms imposing a prevailing silence around breast cancer in rural African American
communities have made it difficult for survivors to express their quality-of-life (QOL) …

Despite quality of life (QOL) being a commonly-used concept, it is often not clearly defined or
understood. This paper analyzes the concept of quality of life using the framework …

Objective: To examine relationships between symptom distress and quality of life when
religious support and personal support were introduced as mediating variables. Design …

The purpose of this longitudinal study was to compare the quality of life and affective state of
patients receiving chemotherapy who developed oral mucositis to patients who did not …