BACKGROUND AND AIMS This survey aimed to compare actual lifestyle factors and QOL between Japanese IBD patients and healthy Japanese controls, by questionnaire using an internet-web system. METHODS Through the internet-web system, we asked 464 patients with Crohn's disease [CD], 360 patients with ulcerative colitis [UC], and 4100 healthy controls to answer a questionnaire including an eight-i...

Background: Endstage renal disease (ESRD) is increasingly being recognized as a major public health issue globally. Planning of intervention measures is preferably hinged on what is known about outcome parameters. Objectives: This study investigated the influence of anxiety with depression and psychosocialand treatment-related correlates on quality of life (QOL) in ESRD. Methodology: Overall, 1...

BACKGROUND Children with cerebral palsy who can self-report have similar quality of life (QoL) to their able-bodied peers. Is this similarity also found in adolescence? We examined how self-reported QoL of adolescents with cerebral palsy varies with impairment and compares with the general population, and how factors in childhood predict adolescent QoL. METHODS We report QoL outcomes in a lon...

The impact of living with metastatic breast cancer (MBC) is considerable and psychosocial support can be beneficial. Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) can help self-management of anxiety, depression, quality of life (QoL), and fatigue and has been evaluated in early-stage breast cancer but not MBC. This study investigated the acceptability and feasibility of providing MBSR for women wit...

BACKGROUND The objective benefits of tympanostomy tubes for otitis media are well established, but the subjective impact of surgery on child quality of life (QOL) has not been systematically studied. OBJECTIVES To determine the subjective impact of tympanostomy tubes on child QOL, and to compare the variability in QOL before surgery with that observed after surgery. DESIGN Prospective, obse...

BACKGROUND During the recent decade, a number of studies have begun to address Quality of Life (QoL) in children and adolescents with mental health problems in general population and clinical samples. Only about half of the studies utilized both self and parent proxy report of child QoL. Generally children with mental health problems have reported lower QoL compared to healthy children. The que...

Quality of life (QoL) of children and adolescents has only recently received the attention it rightfully deserves. Reviews of the effects of a number of the most common chronic childhood conditions (1) show an enormous diversity of impact and associated needs. Before the introduction of QoL instruments, there was a dearth of appropriate means for comparison across conditions. The foremost advan...

Introduction. Dysthyroid optic neuropathy (DON) is a severe complication of Graves’ orbitopathy (GO). Treatment DON should involve immediate administration intravenous methylprednisolone (ivMP) in very high doses. It recommended to include additional 12 pulses ivMP according weekly schedule as further step the treatment process. The purpose this study was evaluate influence 12-week on quality l...

The quality of life (QoL) of pediatric liver transplant (LT) recipients has been repeatedly shown to be impaired relative to healthy populations and other chronic illness groups (1–6). Recent studies have demonstrated that impairments in QoL persist 10–20 yr after transplant (7, 8). Despite growing recognition that pediatric LT recipients have lower QoL and require monitoring and support, littl...