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View Post: Health 101 » Bypassing the Blues
13 hours ago by admin  
The researchers found that patients who received intervention reported greater improvement in mental health-related quality of life, physical functioning and mood symptoms. Half of the intervention patients reported a 50 percent or ...
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View Post: Gender differences in health-related quality of life in multiple ...
6 Nov 2009 by Casetta, I., Riise, T., Wamme Nortvedt,...  
We studied the gender-specific impact of MS on health-related quality of life. We surveyed the population prevalence of MS patients in Ferrara, Italy. Data were extracted from the MS registry of the study area. Health-related quality of ...
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View Post: Abstract
Rapid and sustained improvements in health-related ...
11 Nov 2009 by Arthur Kavanaugh   ...
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View Post: Drug side effects a key factor in reduced quality of life for ...
23 Nov 2009
The patients' self-reported health-related quality of life was measured using the SF-36 scale, which ranges from zero to 100, with higher scores indicating a more positive result. This showed that people in their first year after ...
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View Post: Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life — Ann Intern Med
15 Apr 1993 by Gordon H. Guyatt, David H. Feeny, Donald...  
Clinicians and policymakers are recognizing the importance of measuring health-related quality of life (HRQL) to inform patient management and policy decisions. Self- or interviewer-administered questionnaires can be used to measure ...
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View Post: Five-year Follow-up of Health-related Quality of Life after ...
2 Nov 2009 by Namiki, S., Ishidoya, S., Ito, A., Tochigi,...  
Objective: We evaluated health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in patients with localized prostate cancer who underwent intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) or three-field conformal radiotherapy (3DCRT). ...
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View Post: IngentaConnect Health-related quality of life in a sample of HIV ...
13 Dec 2008 by Phaswana-Mafuya, Nancy  
The study aims to assess the health-related quality of life and HIV symptoms of a sample of people living with HIV (PLHIV) in South Africa. The sample included 607 PLHIV from all districts of the Eastern Cape Province, recruited either ...
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View Post: Cross-Sectional Analysis of Health-Related Quality of Life in ...
21 Oct 2009 by Estella M. Alonso, Christine A. Limbers,...  
The Journal of Pediatrics, Volume null, Issue null, Pages null, null, Authors:Estella M. Alonso; Christine A. Limbers; Katie Neighbors; Karen Martz; John C. Bucuvalas; Thomas Webb; James W. Varni; on behalf of the Studies of Pediatric ...
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View Post: Co-occurring Conditions and Health-Related Quality of Life in ...
14 Oct 2009 by Kilbourne, AM, Perron, BE, Mezuk, B., Welsh,...  
Objective: To assess changes in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and to determine whether co-occurring substance use and medical comorbidities were associated with worse HRQOL over a 1-year period in a naturalistic sample of ...
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View Post: Health-Related Quality of Life Among Mexican Americans Living in ...
25 Sep 2009 by webmail@rwjf.org  
Mexican Americans living in colonias along the Texas-Mexico border comprise one of the most disadvantaged and difficult to reach minority groups in the United States. This article examines health-related quality of life (HRQL) in ...
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