575-585
The Dartmouth COOP Charts: A simple, reliable, valid and responsive quality of life tool for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
T. Eaton, P. Young, W. Fergusson, J. E. Garrett and J. Kolbe
587-598
Using structural equation modeling to detect response shifts and true change
Frans J. Oort
599-609
An application of structural equation modeling to detect response shifts and true change in quality of life data from cancer patients undergoing invasive surgery
Frans J. Oort, Mechteld R. M. Visser and Mirjam A. G. Sprangers
611-627
Change in quality of life of people with stroke over time: True change or response shift?
Sara Ahmed, Nancy E. Mayo, Marc Corbiere, Sharon Wood-Dauphinee and James Hanley, et al.
629-639
Methods to detect response shift in quality of life data: A convergent validity study
Mechteld R. M. Visser, Frans J. Oort and Mirjam A. G. Sprangers
641-654
Methodological issues in determining the dimensionality of composite health measures using principal component analysis: Case illustration and suggestions for practice
Joël Coste, Stéphane Bouée, Emmanuel Ecosse, Alain Leplège and Jacques Pouchot
655-663
The health status of the Dutch population as assessed by the EQ-6D
N. Hoeymans, H. van Lindert and G. P. Westert
665-673
Use of the SF-8 to assess health-related quality of life for a chronically ill, low-income population participating in the Central Louisiana Medication Access Program (CMAP)
John J. Lefante, Gary N. Harmon, Keith M. Ashby, David Barnard and Larry S. Webber
675-686
A review of quality of life instruments used in dementia
Teake P. Ettema, Rose-Marie Dröes, Jacomine de Lange, Gideon J. Mellenbergh and Miel W. Ribbe
687-694
An instrument to assess mental patients’ capacity to appraise and report subjective quality of life
Josephine G.W.S. Wong, Erik P.T. Cheung, Eric Y.H. Chen, Raymond C.K. Chan and C.W. Law, et al.
695-703
Treatment for depression and its relationship to improvement in quality of life and psychological well-being in multiple sclerosis patients
Stacey Hart, Irina Fonareva, Natalia Merluzzi and David C. Mohr
705-717
Eating disorders and emotional and physical well-being: Associations between student self-reports of eating disorders and quality of life as measured by the SF-36
Helen A. Doll, Sophie E. Petersen and Sarah L. Stewart-Brown
719-734
Psychometric validation of the child health questionnaire (CHQ) in a sample of children and adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder
Anne M. Rentz, Louis S. Matza, Kristina Secnik, Andrine Swensen and Dennis A. Revicki
735-747
Assessment of health state utilities for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in children using parent proxy report
Louis S. Matza, Kristina Secnik, Anne M. Rentz, Sally Mannix and F. Randy Sallee, et al.
749-757
Health-related quality of life in women and men one year after acute myocardial infarction
Eva Brink, Gunne Grankvist, Björn W. Karlson and Lillemor R.-M. Hallberg
769-778
Quality of life before and after heart valve surgery is influenced by gender and type of valve
Marie-Christine Taillefer, Gilles Dupuis, Jean-François Hardy and Sylvie LeMay
779-788
The SEIQoL-DW is a valid method for measuring individual quality of life in stroke survivors attending a secondary prevention clinic
Sandra A. LeVasseur, Sally Green and Paul Talman
789-793
The impact of asthma and aspirin sensitivity on quality of life of patients with nasal polyposis
Isam Alobid, Pedro Benítez, Manuel Bernal-Sprekelsen, José María Guilemany and Cesar Picado, et al.
795-803
Health-related and overall quality of life of patients with chronic hip and knee complaints in general practice
Johanna M. van der Waal, Caroline B. Terwee, Daniëlle A. W. M. van der Windt, Lex M. Bouter and Joost Dekker
805-813
The relationship between productivity and health-related quality of life: An empirical exploration in persons with low back pain
Leida M. Lamers, Willem-Jan Meerding, Johan L. Severens and Werner B.F. Brouwer
815-825
Influence of age and gender on quality-of-life outcomes after cholecystectomy
J. M. Quintana, I. Arostegui, V. Oribe, I. López de Tejada and B. Barrios, et al.
827-835
The value of the marginalia as an adjunct to structured questionnaires: Experiences of men after prostate cancer surgery
Lorrie L. Powel and Jack A. Clark
837-847
A comparison of visual analogue and numerical rating scale formats for the Lung Cancer Symptom Scale (LCSS): Does format affect patient ratings of symptoms and quality of life?
P.J. Hollen, R.J. Gralla, M.G. Kris, S. McCoy and G.W. Donaldson, et al.
849-855
The responsiveness of the Overactive Bladder Questionnaire (OAB-q)
Karin S. Coyne, Louis S. Matza and Christine L. Thompson
857-865
Missing forms and dropout in the TME quality of life substudy
H. Putter, C. A. M. Marijnen, E. Klein Kranenbarg, C. J. H. van de Velde and A. M. Stiggelbout
867-874
Medical technologies, nonhuman aids, human assistance, and environmental factors in the assessment of health states
Yukiko Asada
875-882
Brief communication
The Short Form Health Survey (SF-36): Translation and validation study of the Iranian version
Ali Montazeri, Azita Goshtasebi, Mariam Vahdaninia and Barbara Gandek
883-889
Brief communication
Reliability and validity of the Norwegian translation of the Seattle Angina Questionnaire following myocardial infarction
Kjell I. Pettersen, Aasmund Reikvam and Knut Stavem
891-897
Brief communication
Cross-linguistic equivalence of WHOQOL-100: A study from North India
Shekhar Saxena, Kathryn Quinn, Pratap Sharan, B. Naresh and Hao Yuantao, et al.
899-904
Brief communication
Korean version of the Caregiver Quality of Life Index – Cancer (CQOLC-K)
Young Sun Rhee, Dong Ok Shin, Kwang Mi Lee, Han Jin Yu and Joung Wha Kim, et al.
905-909
Brief communication
Quality of life and subthreshold affective symptoms
Arianna Goracci, Mirko Martinucci, Umberto Scalcione, Andrea Fagiolini and Paolo Castrogiovanni