Background: The long-term burden of self-management in type 2 diabetes can impact quality life. Aims: To examine associations between demographic and clinical factors, anxiety/depression perception health people with diabetes. Methods: Retrospective analyses anonymised data from completed trials provided by the subsection Virtual International Cardiovascular Cognitive Trials Archive (VICCTA). D...

Generic health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instruments, such as EQ-5D, are important tools in economic evaluations for measuring disease burden and generating quality-adjusted years (QALYs). Our goal was to compare measurement properties two versions this instrument, the EQ-5D-3L (3L) EQ-5D-5L (5L) atopic dermatitis (AD). We conducted a multicentre cross-sectional survey Hungary, involving ...

BACKGROUND The ICEPOP CAPability measure for Older people (ICECAP-O) and Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT) are preference-based measures for assessing quality of life (QoL) from a broader perspective than do traditional health-related QoL measures such as the EuroQol five-dimensional questionnaire (EQ-5D). Measurement properties of these instruments have not yet been directly compared....

PURPOSE the aim of the present study was to measure patient perception in the early period after knee replacement surgery and to correlate health status with the surgery-related outcome. METHODS thirty-eight consecutive patients who underwent total knee replacement were evaluated before surgery; at the time Radiographic evaluation was used to assess limb alignment and the Oxford Knee Score (O...

BACKGROUND In economic evaluations of care services for older adults health-related quality of life (QoL) measures such as the EQ-5D are increasingly replaced by the ICECAP-O and ASCOT, which cover a broader scope of QoL than health alone. Little is known about the content validity and feasibility of these measures. The purpose of this study was to explore the content validity and feasibility o...

INTRODUCTION The new, five-level version of the EQ-5D (EQ-5D-5L) questionnaire has better psychometric properties than the standard three-level version (EQ-5D-3L), including a reduced ceiling effect. Currently, there are few existing population norms for the EQ-5D-5L. The aims of this study were to provide population norms for the EQ-5D-5L in Poland, based on a representative sample of adults, ...

BACKGROUND There is a paucity of data on the distribution of disease severity. In this study, we estimated disease severity distributions in South Korea using two EQ-5D-3L population surveys. METHODS A total of 110 health states for 35 diseases with 2-5 severity levels (e.g., mild, moderate, severe) were included in this study. A general population of 360 participants from the areas surroundi...

BACKGROUND Assessing the impact of disease severity on generic quality of life (QOL) is a critical step in outcomes research and in the development of decision-analytic models structured around health states defined by clinical measures. While data from routine clinical practice found in healthcare registers are increasingly used for research, more attention should be paid to understanding the ...