Browsing Centre for Primary Care and Public Health by Subject "Quality of Life"
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Assessing the health of the general population in England: how do the three- and five-level versions of EQ-5D compare?
(2015-10-21)BACKGROUND: The EQ-5D is a brief, generic measure of health status that can be easily incorporated into population health surveys. There are two versions of the EQ-5D for use in adult populations, one with 3 response levels ... -
Assessing the performance of the EQ-VAS in the NHS PROMs programme.
(2014-04)OBJECTIVES: The study aims to increase knowledge about the performance of the EuroQol-visual analogue scales (EQ-VAS) in the UK NHS patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) programme, which covers groin hernia, hip and ... -
Can occupational therapist-led home environmental assessment prevent falls in older people? A modified cohort randomised controlled trial protocol.
(2018-09-10)INTRODUCTION: Falls and fall-related injuries are a serious cause of morbidity and cost to society. Environmental hazards are implicated as a major contributor to falls among older people. A recent Cochrane review found ... -
The effectiveness of a group self-management education course for adults with poorly controlled epilepsy, SMILE (UK): A randomized controlled trial.
(2018-05)OBJECTIVE: Epilepsy is one of the most common neurological conditions affecting about 1% of adults. Up to 40% of people with epilepsy (PWE) report recurring seizures while on medication. And optimal functioning requires ... -
Effectiveness of complex behaviour change interventions tested in randomised controlled trials for people with multiple long-term conditions (M-LTCs): systematic review with meta-analysis.
(2024-06-16)INTRODUCTION: The prevalence of multiple long-term conditions (M-LTCs) increases as adults age and impacts quality of life and health outcomes. To help people manage these conditions, complex behaviour change interventions ... -
An exploration of differences between Japan and two European countries in the self-reporting and valuation of pain and discomfort on the EQ-5D.
(2017-08)PURPOSE: To investigate the systematic differences in the self-reporting and valuation of overall health and, in particular, pain/discomfort between three countries (England/UK, Japan, and Spain) on the EQ-5D. METHODS: ... -
[How does the quality of life of long-term hospitalized psychiatric patients change after their discharge into the community?].
(1998-04)In the Berlin deinstitutionalisation study, quality of life in 134 long-term hospitalised psychiatric patients was examined twice: Discharged patients were interviewed again one year after their return to the community, ... -
The IMPROVE trial: study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial to assess the effectiveness of using lay health workers to improve uptake and completion of pulmonary rehabilitation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
(2024-03-19)BACKGROUND: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is a programme of exercise and education and the most effective treatment for the symptoms and disability associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. However, the benefits ... -
The lived experience of chronic headache: a systematic review and synthesis of the qualitative literature.
(2017-12-15)OBJECTIVE: To systematically review the qualitative literature of the lived experience of people with a chronic headache disorder. BACKGROUND: Chronic headaches affect 3%-4% of the population. The most common chronic ... -
New methods for modelling EQ-5D-5L value sets: An application to English data.
(2018-01)Value sets for the EQ-5D-5L are required to facilitate its use in estimating quality-adjusted life years. An international protocol has been developed to guide the collection of stated preference data for this purpose and ... -
[Quality of life as a planning and evaluation criterion in psychiatric management].
(1996-07)In sociology and psychology, quality of life and subjective well-being have been being relevant constructs and subject of empirical research for several decades. Results of this research are reviewed, and findings of the ... -
Setting the top 10 research priorities to improve the health of people with Type 2 diabetes: a Diabetes UK-James Lind Alliance Priority Setting Partnership.
(2018-07)AIMS: To describe processes and outcomes of a priority setting partnership to identify the 'top 10 research priorities' in Type 2 diabetes, involving people living with the condition, their carers, and healthcare professionals. ... -
Supported exercise TrAining for Men wIth prostate caNcer on Androgen deprivation therapy (STAMINA): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of the STAMINA lifestyle intervention compared with optimised usual care, including internal pilot and parallel process evaluation.
(BMC, 2024-04-12)BACKGROUND: UK national clinical guidance recommends that men with prostate cancer on androgen deprivation therapy are offered twice weekly supervised aerobic and resistance exercise to address iatrogenic harm caused by ... -
Supported self-management for people with type 2 diabetes: a meta-review of quantitative systematic reviews.
(2018-12-14)OBJECTIVES: Self-management support aims to give people with chronic disease confidence to actively manage their disease, in partnership with their healthcare provider. A meta-review can inform policy-makers and healthcare ... -
Valuing EQ-5D-5L health states 'in context' using a discrete choice experiment.
(2018-05)BACKGROUND: In health state valuation studies, health states are typically presented as a series of sentences, each describing a health dimension and severity 'level'. Differences in the severity levels can be subtle, and ... -
Valuing health-related quality of life: An EQ-5D-5L value set for England.
(2018-01)A new version of the EQ-5D, the EQ-5D-5L, is available. The aim of this study is to produce a value set to support use of EQ-5D-5L data in decision-making. The study design followed an international research protocol. ...