Quality of Life Measurement in Antidepressant Trials

securitization of mortality risks in life annuities

insurers have in the past few decades faced longevity risks - the risk that annuitants survive more than expected - and therefore need a new approach to manage this new risk. in this dissertation we survey methods that hedge longevity risks. these methods use securitization to manage risk, so using modern financial and insurance pricing models, especially wang transform and actuarial concepts, ...

this study investigated the relationship between quality of work life and organization citizenship behavior from the viewpoint of teachers in high schools in tehran city.

چکیده هدف از پژوهش حاضر بررسی رابطه کیفیت زندگی کاری و رفتار شهروندی سازمانی در مدارس مقطع متوسطه پسرانه شهر تهران از دیدگاه دبیران بود. روش پژوهش حاضر توصیفی و از نوع همبستگی بود. از بین دبیران مدارس شهر تهران تعداد 380 نفر به روش نمونه گیری خوشه ای چند مرحله ای به عنوان نمونه پژوهش انتخاب شدند و با تکمیل پرسشنامه ی کیفیت زندگی کاری والتون(1975) و پرسشنامه ی رفتار شهروندی سازمانی پودساکو...

Assessing the quality and value of quality-of-life measurement in breast cancer clinical trials.

It was more than 30 years ago that the first efforts to incorporate quality-of-life (QOL) measurements into cancer treatment trials began in studies of women with advanced breast cancer (1). In that study, the investigators used an ad hoc instrument with linear ana-log scales to focus on the common side effects of chemotherapy that was being given to women with advanced metastatic breast cancer...

Assessing quality of life in clinical trials.

• Complete revision and update to cover the increased breadth and importance of the field of QoL measurement • A rigorous, broad comprehensive coverage of all aspects of QoL measurement, methods and practice • Gives a new focus on qualitative methods which have become considerably more advanced and now have a stronger scientific basis • Introduces Rasch models and item response theory, the use ...

The Measurement of Quality of Life in Clinical Trials: Considerations of Good Research Practice