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Critique on the conceptualisation of quality of life: a review and evaluation of different conceptual approaches.
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An overview and critique of different conceptualisations of quality of life suggests that defining quality oflife in terms of life satisfaction is most appropriate, because this definition successfully deals with all the conceptual problems discussed.About:
This article is published in International Journal of Nursing Studies.The article was published on 2006-09-01. It has received 514 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Quality of life (healthcare) & Quality (business).read more
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The Satisfaction With Life Scale and the emerging construct of life satisfaction
William Pavot,Ed Diener +1 more
TL;DR: The Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS) as discussed by the authors has been used as a measure of the life satisfaction component of subjective well-being and has been shown to correlate with measures of mental health and to be predictive of future behaviors such as suicide attempts.
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Health, Health-Related Quality of Life, and Quality of Life: What is the Difference?
Milad Karimi,John Brazier +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that the concept of HRQoL as used now is confusing and could be defined as the way health is empirically estimated to affect QoL or use the term to only signify the utility associated with a health state.
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Insomnia and health-related quality of life.
TL;DR: It is concluded from the relatively small literature that insomnia impacts on diverse areas of HRQoL, and that both pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions can produce, to varying degrees, improvements in domains spanning physical, social and emotional functioning.
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A systematic review of reviews: exploring the relationship between obesity, weight loss and health-related quality of life
TL;DR: Improved HRQoL was evident after non‐surgical weight loss, but was not consistently demonstrated, even in randomized controlled trials, which may be attributed to variation in quality of reporting, assessment measures, study populations and weight‐loss interventions.
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A systematic review of quality of life research in medicine and health sciences
Kristin Haraldstad,Astrid Klopstad Wahl,Randi Andenæs,John Roger Andersen,Marit Helen Andersen,Elisabeth Beisland,Christine Råheim Borge,Eivind Engebretsen,Martin Eisemann,Liv Halvorsrud,Tove Aminda Hanssen,Tove Aminda Hanssen,Anne Haugstvedt,Trude Haugland,Venke A Johansen,Marie Hamilton Larsen,Lise Løvereide,Borghild Løyland,Lisbeth Gravdal Kvarme,Philip Moons,Tone M. Norekvål,Lis Ribu,Gudrun Rohde,Kristin Hjorthaug Urstad,Sølvi Helseth,Sølvi Helseth +25 more
TL;DR: The majority QOL studies in health and medicine have conceptual and methodological challenges, and QOL research involves a variety of patient groups and different research designs.
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Assessment of quality-of-life outcomes.
TL;DR: There has been a nearly exponential increase in the use of quality-of-life evaluation as a technique of clinical research since 1973, when only 5 articles listed “quality of life” as a reference key word in the MEDLINE data base; during the subsequent five-year periods there were 195, 273, 490, and 1252 such articles.
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A critical appraisal of the quality of quality-of-life measurements
TL;DR: To evaluate how well quality of life is being measured in the medical literature and to offer a new approach to the measurement, original English-language articles having the term "quality of life" in their titles were identified.
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Integrating response shift into health-related quality of life research: a theoretical model
TL;DR: A theoretical model is proposed to clarify and predict changes in QOL as a result of the interaction of a catalyst, referring to changes in the respondent's health status, and a dynamic feedback loop aimed at maintaining or improving the perception of QOL.
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