poverty in canada implications for health and quality of life

... The short form (SF-36) was used to assess the physical health and mental health aspects of health related quality of life [21] SF-36 consists of eight sub scores and can also be divided into a physical ... University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Neuroscience, Trondheim, Norway Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Circulation and ... acceptance Fully formattedPDF and full text (HTML) versions will be made available soon Reduced peak oxygen uptake and implications for cardiovascular health and quality of life in patients with

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... Ganoczy D and Beasley CM: Olanzapine versus haloperidol in the treatment of schizo-phrenia and other psychotic disorders: quality of life and clin-ical outcomes of a randomised clinclin-ical ... Development of a quality of life profile for use in community services for the mentally ill Soc Work Soc Sci 3:5-45 1991–1992 26. Heinrichs D, Hanlon E and Carpenter W: The quality of life scale: an instrument ... having mental health problems seemed to impact on a number of areas of life including relationships, social life, work, the image that people have of mental health and schizophrenia resulting in

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... researching and developing needs assessment instruments leading to effective intervention and improving quality of cancer care Review Introduction Health care, including cancer care, is in the ... 2Avoid medical errors Quality of Life Dimension: Anxiety Figure Relationship of needs to satisfaction and quality of life Relationship of needs to satisfaction and quality of life in the Item Response ... determining possible levels of performance on each need; measuring the importance of needs and employing needs assessment data in design; and improvement and evaluation efforts We will first examine

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... aspects of health-related quality of life that are of the greatest salience for that condition For example, an arthritis-specific scale might include questions about joint pain, the number of joints ... AccessResearch A new instrument for measuring anticoagulation-related quality of life: development and preliminary validation Address: 1 Department of Biometry and Bioinformatics, Duke University ... by a review of their bibliographies, a review of the reports from various large randomized trials of warfarin, and a hand-review of the Archives of Internal Medicine (this journal being particularly

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... associations of diversity of productive activities, mental health and quality of life for men and women, mean (SD)Mental health Quality of life Mental health Quality of life Not engaged in diverse ... limit was defined by the legal age of employment in Switzerland (< 65 for men, < 64 for women) We only included men and women in employable age for whom information on mental health and QoL ... mental health and quality of life in disability: exploring the role enhancement and the role strain hypotheses Christine Fekete1,2* , Johannes Siegrist3, Marcel W M Post4,5, Martin W G Brinkhof1,2and

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... calculated for 103/105 patients for the subscale Pain, 105/105 for Symptoms, 104/105 for the subscale ADL, and 105/105 for the subscale knee-re-lated Quality of Life For the subscale Sport and Recrea-tion ... improvement in functions in-cluded in the subscale Sport and Recreation Function such as squatting, kneeling, jumping, turning/twisting and run-ning was extremely or very important when deciding to ... Osteoarthritis Index, and the Sickness Im-pact Profile health-status measures J Bone Joint Surg Am 1997, 79:1323-35 30. WHO International classification of functioning, disability and health In: Book International

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... need for or desirability of summarizing health into a single index A single health index cannot be a wholly comprehensive measure Unless the analyst can ascertain the relative con-tribution of ... combined in a single index), these mis-fitting items were finally retained Ninety-two percent of people in the sample was properly measured by the items of the NHP22 according to the Infit criterion ... effort; EN3-I soon run out of energy; P1-I have pain at night; P2-I have unbearable pain; P3-I find it painful to change position; P4-I'm in pain when I walk; P5-I'm in pain when I'm standing;

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... levels of observable functions of community liv-ing stroke survivors were generated for each of the remain-ing items For example, the worst level of the walkremain-ing item was described as being ... clinical benefits from the patient's point of view can best be quantified in terms of health-related quality of life (HRQL) This concept emerged in the mid 80's when the need was identified for ... Corresponding author StrokePatients' PreferencesHealth Index Abstract Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQL) is a key issue in disabling conditions like stroke. Unfortunately, HRQL is often

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... 0 and 100 For the functioning domains and global quality of life, a higher score indicates a better or higher level of functioning; for the symptom domains and single items, a higher score indicates ... Kaizer L and for the Quality of Life and Symptom Control Committees of the National Cancer Institute of Canada Clinical Trials Group: Determinants of postchemotherapy nausea and vomiting in patients ... Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Study Group on Quality of Life: The European Organiza-tion for Research and Treatment of Cancer QLQ-C30: a quality-of-life instrument for use in international

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... activities and quality of life Enu-merating specific problems related to quality of life in CFS patients can help us to better understand and manage this illness [2] The quality-of-life approach ... revision of the manuscript, and obtaining funding; DAP assisted in analysis and interpretation of the data and critical revision of the manuscript; WCR contributed to the conception and design of the ... in critical revision of the manuscript, and provided statistical expertise; MR was intrumental in the conception and design of the study, and participated in the analysis and interpretation of

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... the Health Utilities Index (HUI)? HUI is a family of generic health profiles and preference-based systems for the purposes of measuring health status, reporting health-related quality of life, and ... use of two hands and ten fingers. 2 Limitations in the use of hands or fingers, but does not require special tools or help of another person. 3 Limitations in the use of hands or fingers, is independent ... questionnaires and determine HUI variables in real time for use in health-care settings (see Summary) FAQ 16: Is there an automated system for collecting HUI questionnaire data and for determining HUI

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... both inflammatory and non-inflammatory conditions The chronic inflammatory diseases are all characterized by joint pain, joint swelling, morning stiffness, limitation of range of joint motion and ... effect), indicating extreme problems with squatting, running, jumping, twisting/pivoting and kneeling at base-line At follow-up the proportion reporting a floor effect decreased to 25%, indicating ... results of parametric and non-par-ametric analyzes Analyses were carried out in both groups of patients (RA and other inflammatory joint diseases) Since the inter-pretation of the data was similar in

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... Death for 'believers' Loss of individuality Permanence of individuality End of subjective life Passage to another life Being aware of dying Dying unaware Not losing control of the situation Hope in ... comfortable thinking that there is nothing I feel this is a more coherent way (NB1) Nothing exists in our life without a beginning and an end Even the simplest and minimal things are part of ... Choice of where to die - Maintaining a sense of control (possibility of controlling relevant aspects of one's own existence and/or deciding what and when to delegate to others) - Maintaining a

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... night Unintended Medication Effects • Burning, Itching, Grittiness/Sandiness, Dryness, Tearing of eyes • Redness of eye, Darkening of iris of eyes • Swelling, Crustiness, Stickiness of eyelids ... per-ceptions of the type and severity of symptoms, the func-tional impact of illness, utility and preference measures for treatment options, the impact of illness on health-related quality of life and ... energy, migraines Convenience and Ease of Medication Use • Discomfort putting things in eyes • Strong "blink reflex" making it difficult to instill the drops • Difficulty learning to instill

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... trouble falling asleep, waking up during the night, and waking up too early and not being able to fall asleep again; how often they felt rested in the morning; how often they napped; and, how often ... and increased daytime sleepiness are associated with reduced quality of life Sleep complaints that characterize insomnia [52,55], including difficulty initiating sleep, early morning awak-enings, ... comparisons of normal subjects to patients with sleep abnormalities[15,35-37] and uses a MSLT score < 8 minutes as indicative of abnormal sleepiness Evaluation of Quality of Life Quality of life

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... multi-dimensional instru-ments in clinical practices and decision-making [9-12] This resistance stems from time and resource constraints [13,14], difficulty interpreting the meaning of multidi-mensional information, ... urology) included three pain items (pain, bone pain, pain limiting performance of activities) and fatigue (Table 3) Variation between specialties in prioriti-zation of weight loss and urinary difficulty ... multidi-mensional information, and difficulty determining the clinical meaning of score changes, including implications for treatment decisions [12,15-20] The U.S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has

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... attained for 8 of the 10 scales in the NICU sample, and 6 of the 10 scales in the healthy baby sample Only 2 items in the NICU sample (in Get-ting Along) and 5 in the healthy baby sample (in Temper-ament ... Pain/Discomfort 3 Amount, frequency of bodily pain/discomfort and the extent to which pain/discomfort interferes with normal activities Temperament and Moods 18 Frequency of certain moods and ... study of preterm infants [14] HRQL in this measure was defined as health status in 12 domains weighted by the impact of health status problems on wellbeing These 12 domains measure aspects of physical,

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... validation, and correlations with the Assessment of Quality of Life in Palliative Care Instrument (AQEL), and the European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) Core Quality of Life ... developing and test-ing quality of life questionnaires [8] The aim of our study was to assess the psychometric prop-erties of a new quality of life instrument on a Hellenic sample of terminally ill ... considering quality of life in advanced cancer patients the treatment choice is a palliative one, therefore we consider of importance the inclusion of a new dimen-sion when measuring quality of life

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... comparative performance of two different methods for item scaling, and the potential uses of TS assessment in clinical settings Those advocating collaborative (patient-caregiver) mod-els of health care ... restoring their former health In addition to its impact on treatment outcomes within the clinical setting, TS results have been incorporated into decisions regarding pharmaceutical formularies and ... dimensions in the framework The final test item pool contained 31 items Two scaling methods, visual analogue scaling (VAS) and Likert-type scaling, were considered for use in the final instrument In

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... shift is achieved and maintained through meaning-based coping: marking loss, evolving new expectations with their own positive mean-ings, finding meaning in the ordinary, and creating global (deeply ... be incorporated in statistical and clinical judgment models of QOL, to provide a coherent and empirically-testable definition of response shift Published: 15 March 2004 Health and Quality of Life ... theoretical model of quality-of-life appraisal: Implications of findings from studies of response shift Bruce D Rapkin*1 and Carolyn E Schwartz2,3,4,5 Address: 1 Department of Psychiatry and the Behavioral

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