BACKGROUND In the field of drug and alcohol abuse, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has been used as an important clinical and research outcome. The aim of this study was to establish score linkages (concordance) among three HRQoL assessment tools: WHOQOL-BREF, DUQOL and HRQOLDA scores, applying a Rasch-based common person equating procedure. METHODS One hundred and twenty one adults we...

Objective: to analyze the use of quality of life assessment (QOL) as a strategy to evaluate the work with health promotion groups in the community. Method: cross-sectional, descriptive and analytical study. Participants of two elderly groups (n=46) were individually interviewed to fi ll the sociodemographic instruments, WHOQOL-BREF and WHOQOL-OLD. Results: the participants were women with up to...

OBJECTIVE To assess the validity of the Brazilian version of the World Health Organization Quality of Life Instrument - Abbreviated version (WHOQOL-BREF) in adults with major depression, using Rasch modelling. METHODS Study analyzing data from the baseline sample of the Longitudinal Investigation of Depression Outcomes in Brazil, including a total of 208 patients with major depression recruit...

Objective: To adapt and validate the original English version of World Health Organization Quality Life Questionnaire-version for older adults (WHOQOL-OLD) in Igbo language, culture, environment. Participants: Community-dwelling (≥65 years) from Nnewi community Nigeria. Methods: This was a cross-cultural adaptation validation study. The WHOQOL-OLD translated into synthesized, backward subjected...

BACKGROUND Quality of life (QoL) in persons with spinal cord injury (SCI) has been found to differ across countries. However, comparability of measurement results between countries depends on the cross-cultural validity of the applied instruments. The study examined the metric quality and cross-cultural validity of the Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWLS), the Life Satisfaction Questionnaire (LI...

background : the short form health survey (sf-36) and who quality of life-bref (whoqol-bref) questionnaires are two common tools to assess changes in quality of life (qol) over the course of treatment, especially in patients with coronary artery disease (cad). however, the value of these two instruments among cad patients has not been studied and compared. the objective of the present study was...

O objetivo foi analisar a associação da prática de dança e ginástica com percepção qualidade vida seus domínios em um grupo idosas Curitiba/PR, Brasil. Participara do estudo 219 idosas, divididas grupos, sendo: não praticantes atividade física, ginástica. Estudo transversal verificando por meio regressão linear múltipla. Foram aplicados os instrumentos WHOQOL-BREF WHOQOL-OLD para avaliar vida. ...

Androgenetic alopecia (AGA) affects the quality of life (QoL) and has a negative psychological impact on patients. We sought to investigate frequency anxiety depression in AGA patients explore their relationship with patients’ QoL. This cross-sectional survey enrolled 192 participants AGA. Hairdex, World Health Organization Quality Brief Version (WHOQOL-BREF), dermatology index (DLQI) instrumen...

background: the whoqol-bref is one of the best-known instruments that have been developed for cross-cultural compari­sons of quality of life and currently it is available in more than 40 languages. current study was done to provide: (1) the psychometrics properties of the iranian version of whoqol-bref and (2) the norm scores for satisfaction with life over­all and satisfaction with specific li...