Doctors Without Borders, Amsterdam, Holland. Noma Project, Sokoto, Nigeria.
Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology, Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Department of Global Health and Social Medicine, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
Department of Otolaryngology, University Teaching Hospital Kigali, University of Rwanda, College of Medicine & Health Sciences, Kigali, Rwanda.
An essential goal of glaucoma management is to prevent a patient's visual impairment that compromises their health-related quality of life (QOL). The disease itself, in addition to the medical or surg...
The PubMed database was utilized for the literature examination of this review. Keywords that were searched included glaucoma, quality of life, vision-related QOL (VRQOL), quality of life questionnair...
The main topics identified and analyzed during the literature review stages include factors affecting VRQOL, the assessment of VRQOL using questionnaires, QOL in early and severe glaucoma, glaucoma an...
Glaucoma-induced visual field loss can significantly impact different aspects of patients' life, and several methods exist for evaluating changes in quality of life. Quality of life assessments have t...
The oncological treatment can significantly affect patients' health-related quality of life (HRQoL), which should be monitored to ensure our patients' well-being. The often-used HRQoL measurer is the ...
Life-space and frailty are closely linked to health-related quality of life and understanding their inter-relationship could indicate potential intervention targets for improving quality of life. We s...
Using cross-sectional data from a population-representative cohort of people aged ≥ 70 years, we assessed quality of life with the EuroQol Health Index tool (5-levels) (EQ-5D-5L). We also undertook a ...
A higher EQ-5D Index was associated with higher life-space (0.02 per life-space assessment score, 95%CI: 0.01 to 0.03, p < 0.01) and decreasing frailty (-0.1 per SD, 95%CI: -0.1 to -0.1, p < 0.01). Th...
Individuals with the highest frailty were twice as likely to have higher quality of life in association with a larger life-space. Interventions designed to improve quality of life in frail older peopl...
For women with endometriosis, pain, fatigue and digestive problems affect the quality of their daily lives. Many professionals work to help them find a balance between the disease and their activities...
To explore the impact of differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) on quality of life (QoL) a clinical analytical framework was developed. Based on the clinical analytical framework, a systematic literature...
Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is characterized by the reflux of gastric contents into the pharynx or larynx and often presents with symptoms including but not limited to cough, throat clearing, sore ...
To determine the differences between the quality of life for sepsis and nonsepsis survivors, factors affecting the quality of life for sepsis survivors, and their changes over time....
A prospective longitudinal study with a quantitative comparative design....
A university hospital in the greater Tokyo area of Japan....
The study included 41 and 40 patients in the sepsis and nonsepsis groups, respectively....
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Health-related quality of life (HRQOL), independence in activities of daily living (ADL), stress levels, and spirituality were compared between the sepsis and nonsepsis groups at ICU discharge, hospit...
HRQOL of sepsis survivors was significantly lower than that of nonsepsis survivors. ADL and stress influenced HRQOL. The study suggests the importance of ADL training and stress alleviation during the...
Multiple Sclerosis (MS), a chronic disease of the central nervous system (CNS), affects functional ability and quality of life (QoL). Depression, fatigue, and disability status are among the many fact...
The purpose of this study was to determine relevant predictors of QoL from a wide list of symptoms including physical disability, and a multi-dimensional computerized cognitive assessment battery (CAB...
171 people with MS (PwMS) were evaluated with a computerized assessment battery (CAB), EDSS examination, and validated Patient Reported Outcome (PRO) measures (Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale, MSIS-29...
171 PwMS were included [Age: 46.02 years ± 9.85, 124 (72.5%) female]. Depression and fatigue scores were highly correlated with MSIS-29. EDSS, unemployment, memory, executive functioning, and motor sk...
Findings indicate the need for comprehensive and quantified evaluation of all factors associated with disease burden, which will ultimately serve to improve the QoL in PwMS through more targeted and p...
The Gastrointestinal Quality of Life Index (GIQLI) is an instrument for the assessment of quality of life (QOL) in diseases of the upper and lower GI tract, which is validated in several languages aro...
The GIQL Index uses 36 items around 5 dimensions (gastrointestinal symptoms (19 items), emotional dimension (5 items), physical dimension (7 items), social dimension (4 items), and therapeutic influen...
The GIQLI was found in 122 reports concerning benign colorectal diseases, of which 27 were finally selected for detailed analysis. From these 27 studies, information on 5664 patients (4046 female vers...
Benign colorectal diseases cause substantial reductions in the patient's QOL, well documented by GIQLI, which allows a comparison QOL with other published cohorts....
Huntington's disease (HD) is a genetic, neurodegenerative disease. Due to the progressive nature of HD and the absence of a cure, (health-related) quality of life ((HR)QoL) is an important topic. Seve...
PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, and PsycINFO were searched systematically from September 17th, 2021, up to August 11th, 2022. Methodological and conceptual quality of the included studies was assessed...
30 out of 70 eligible articles were included. mHDGECs experienced lower (HR)QoL compared to pHDGECs and controls, whereas mixed findings were reported when compared to other neurological diseases. Sev...
(HR)QoL is experienced differently across the course of the disease. Although (HR)QoL is key for understanding the impact of HD and the effect of symptomatic treatment, there is a need to improve the ...
