BACKGROUND Parent-proxy reports of quality of life (QOL) are often used to guide decisions about children with cerebral palsy (CP), although little is known about the factors that influence parent-proxy reports. The aim of this study was to examine (i) the relationship between parental psychosocial distress and parent proxy-reported QOL; and (ii) whether parental psychosocial distress mediates ...

BACKGROUND Little is known about the Quality of Life (QOL) in parents of children with developmental diseases as compared to other severe neurological or psychiatric disorders. Aims of the present study were: to evaluate QOL in parents of children affected by Pervasive Development Disorder (PDDs), Cerebral Palsy (CP) or Mental Retardation (MR) as compared to a control group (CG); to evaluate QO...

INTRODUCTION Cerebral palsy (CP) interferes with the quality of life (QOL) of children with CP, and given that parents report having to often guide their children's decision making, it is important to understand the psychosocial factors that have a potential influence on parent-proxy reports. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of maternal anxiety and depression symptoms on ...

Background The purpose of the study is to examine the quality of life (QoL) in chronic periodontitis (CP) patients associated with or not with well-controlled type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM2). Materials and Methods Five hundred CP patients, 250 with DM2 (GDM2 group) and 250 age- and gender-matched controls without DM2 (GND), were enrolled in this cross-sectional case-controlled study from Janua...

The purpose of this study was to investigate QOL in parents/caretakers of children with cerebral palsy in the province of Kampong Cham, Cambodia. Forty parents/caretakers of children with cerebral palsy aged 1-13 years (F19/M21) participated in this study. The study was carried out using the Comprehensive Quality of life Scale A5 (ComQOL-A5) questionnaire. Results point out three major domains ...

BACKGROUND Elderly patients with advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) may derive similar benefit from platinum-based chemotherapy as younger patients. Quality of life (QoL) and comprehensive geriatric assessment (CGA) is often advocated to assess benefits and risks. PATIENTS AND METHODS A total of 181 chemotherapy-naive patients [≥70 years, performance score (PS) of 0-2] with stage III...

patients per year depend on HD (2). It is estimated that worldwide more than 2 million people suffer from end-stage renal disease (ESRD) that requires HD. It is predicted that this number will continue to increase, making ESRD a significant public health issue (3). Chronic pruritus (CP) is a frequent but often overlooked symptom in HD (4) that affects patients' well-being and reduces the qualit...

The present study is the first one to investigate the impacts of depression and somatization on the disease severity and quality of life (QoL) in patients with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CP/CPPS). The Korean version of National Institutes of Health (NIH)- Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index (CPSI) for severity of CP/CPPS. Korean version of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PH...

To study the effect of multi-interventional package (MIP) on self-efficacy and perceived quality life (QOL) mothers children with cerebral palsy (CP) to identify association between their QOL selected socio-demographic variables. A pre experimental one group pre-test post-test was conducted over a period six weeks among 30 CP attending Child Development Services. The tools were semi structured ...

BACKGROUND:At present, the study of quality life (QOL) a patient is becoming increasingly important in practice cataract surgery, which associated with presence statistically significant correlations between QOL and objective indicators visual system. The developed questionnaires for patients cataracts are based on medical model health.
 AIM:This aimed to assess main complaints after phaco...