Quality of Life Assessment: International Perspectives: Proceedings of the Joint-Meeting Organized by the World Health Organization and the Fondation

ISBN-13: 9783642791253 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 200 str.

John Orley; Willem Kuyken

Opis

This book brings together contributions from a number of the investigators and advisers involved in the development of a WHO Quality of Life assessment instrument. The chapters focus particularly on some of the issues that have to be taken account of when we wish to compare measures obtained in one country or culture with those obtained in another. General issues are dealt with, as well as more specific issues to do with a particular disease such as cancer, or with specific groups of people. The contributors have had experience in work on quality of life and similar topics in a number of different cultural settings, and their experience enriches our understanding of the problems this poses.

Spis treści

The Development of Cross-Cultural Quality of Life Assessment Instruments.- Translation of Health Status Instruments.- Cross-Cultural Validation of Quality of Life Measures.- Ensuring International Equivalence of Quality of Life Measures: Problems and Approaches to Solutions.- The Development of the WHO Quality of Life Assessment Instrument (The WHOQOL).- Perspectives on Quality of Life.- The Relationship Between Health Economics and Health-Related Quality of Life.- The PCASEE Model: An Approach to Subjective Well-Being.- Quality of Life Assessment in Cancer.- Quality of Life Assessment in SWOG Cancer Clinical Trials: Translating and Validating a Spanish Questionnaire.- Quality of Life Assessment in Cancer Patients in India: Cross-Cultural Issues.- Measuring the Quality of Life in Breast Cancer.- Quality of Life Assessment in Specific Populations.- The Experiences and Quality of Life of Informal Caregivers.- Quality of Life Assessment in Arthritis.- The Assessment of Quality of Life in Refugees.- Quality of Life in Hypertensives and Normotensives in Israel: Introducing a Self-Structured Subjective Measure.- Subjective Quality of Life Assessment in Therapeutic Trials: Presentation of a New Instrument in France (SQLP: Subjective Quality for Life Profile) and First Results.