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Improving employees' QoL through adopting strategies to promote healthy lifestyle in work settings should be activated. Further studies are recommended to explore cultural factors that drive gender differences in QoL.

Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are standardized instruments used to collect data about the subjective assessment of medical care from the patient perspective. Implementing PROMs within pediatric clinical settings has gained increasing importance as health services prioritize patient-centred pediatric care. This study explores the perspectives of pediatric solid organ transplant patients, caregivers, and healthcare practitioners (HCPs) on implementing PROMs into clinical practice.

Qualitative description methods were used to elicit stakeholder perspectives. Semi-structured interviews were conducted across five Canadian transplant centres. Purposive sampling was used to obtain maximum variation across age, gender, and transplant program for all participants, as well as discipline for HCPs.

The study included a total of 63 participants [patients (n = 20), caregivers (n = 22) and HCPs (n = 21)]. Nearly all participants endorsed the implementation of PROMs to enhance pediatric transplant clinical form that will inform future research initiatives.

To develop a value set for EQ-5D-3L based on the societal preferences of the Tunisian population.

A representative sample of the Tunisian general population was obtained through multistage quota sampling involving age, gender and region. Participants (n = 327), aged above 20 years, were interviewed using the EuroQol Portable Valuation Technology in face-to-face computer-assisted interviews. Participants completed 10 composite time trade-off (cTTO) and 10 discrete choice experiments (DCE) tasks. Utility values for the EQ-5D-3L health states were estimated using regression modeling. The cTTO and DCE data were analyzed using linear and conditional logistic regression modeling, respectively. Multiple hybrid models were computed to analyze the combined data and were compared on goodness of fit measured by the Akaike information criterion (AIC).

A total of 300 participants with complete data that met quality criteria were included. All regression models showed both logical consistency and significance with respect to the parameter estimates. A hybrid model accounting for heteroscedasticity presented the lowest value for the AIC among the hybrid models. Hence, it was used to construct the Tunisian EQ-5D-3L valuation set with a range of predicted values from - 0.796 to 1.0.

This study provides utility values for EQ-5D-3L health states for the Tunisian population. APX2009 in vitro This value set will be used in economic evaluations of health technologies and for Tunisian health policy decision-making.

This study provides utility values for EQ-5D-3L health states for the Tunisian population. This value set will be used in economic evaluations of health technologies and for Tunisian health policy decision-making.

The study aimed to determine the caregiver burden and coping strategies in caregivers of familial Mediterranean fever (FMF) patients in relation to illness severity, therapy and health-related quality of life (HRQoL).

The study included 171 paediatric FMF patients and their caregivers (parents). The caregivers were asked to complete a socio-demographic form, the Zarit caregiver burden interview (ZCBI) and the Brief COPE. The patients and their caregivers were asked to complete the KINDer Lebensqualitätsfragebogen questionnaire (self-report and proxy report, respectively) for assessing HRQoL. The patients were categorised according to their disease activity (mild, moderate or severe) and the presence or absence of anti-IL-1 therapy.

The mean ZCBI score of the caregivers was 44.7 ± 13.5. ZCBI and COPE scores did not differ significantly between the caregivers of FMF patients receiving and not receiving anti-IL-1 therapy. However, dysfunctional COPE (p = 0.039) and ZCBI (p = 0.021) scores showed a signific dysfunctional coping in caregivers.

Older cancer survivors (≥ 65years at diagnosis) are at high-risk for multimorbidity (2 + comorbid conditions). However, few studies have utilized a generalizable sample of older cancer survivors to understand how individual comorbid conditions, as opposed to total comorbidity burden, are associated with health-related quality of life (HRQOL). We examined associations between HRQOL outcomes (pain, fatigue, physical function), individual comorbidities (cardiovascular disease [CVD], lung disease, diabetes, arthritis) and total comorbidity (cancer-only, cancer + 1 condition, cancer + 2 or more conditions).

Utilizing a population-based sample of 2019 older cancer survivors, we tested associations between comorbid conditions and the HRQOL outcomes using generalized linear models. HRQOL domains were assessed using Patient-Reported Outcome Measurement Information System

(PROMIS

) measures. Comorbidity was assessed via self-report.

Cancer survivors with lung disease reported significantly worse physical funct cancer survivor provides insight into specific HRQOL outcomes that may be impaired in cancer survivorship, but understanding total comorbidity burden, regardless of the specific conditions, sheds light on survivors at-risk for multiple impairments in HRQOL. This information, taken together, can inform risk-stratified survivorship care.

This study aimed to investigate changes of QoL during the first 5 years of survival among disease-free Chinese breast cancer survivors.

A prospective cohort study enrolled 1462 Chinese women with early-stage breast cancer, and longitudinally visited those patients at four time-points, namely baseline (T0), 18- (T1), 36- (T2), and 60-month (T3) after diagnosis. This study included 992 patients who were disease-free during the first 5 years of survival and who had completed QoL assessments at all four time-points.

The score of global health status/QoL improved gradually (T1, T2, T3 > T0; P < 0.001 for overall comparisons). Social functioning score significantly improved when compared to that of T0 (T1, T2, T3 > T0; P < 0.001 for overall comparisons). In contrast, cognitive functioning score decreased (T0 > T1, T2, T3; P < 0.001 for overall comparisons). Scores of physical functioning, role functioning and emotional functioning showed a fluctuated picture, with the highest score achieved at T1.