Health Qual Life Out
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Health Qual Life Out · Jan 2011
Multicenter Study Comparative StudyQuality of life among patients receiving palliative care in South Africa and Uganda: a multi-centred study.
Quality of life (QOL) is a core outcome of palliative care, yet in African settings there is a lack of evidence on patients' levels of QOL. We aimed to describe QOL among patients with incurable, progressive disease receiving palliative care in South Africa and Uganda, to compare QOL in cancer and HIV, to determine how domains of QOL correlate with overall QOL, and compare levels of QOL in this population with those in other studies using the same tool. ⋯ Feeling at peace and having a sense of meaning in life were more important to patients than being active or physical comfort, and spiritual wellbeing correlated most highly with overall QOL. It is therefore vital to identify and meet the psychological and spiritual care needs of patients, as well as to assess and treat pain and other symptoms. Our finding that patients scored most poorly on the Function domain warrants further research.
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Health Qual Life Out · Jan 2011
Multicenter StudyValidation of the Japanese version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) Cancer Module.
The PedsQL 3.0 Cancer Module is a widely used instrument to measure pediatric cancer specific health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for children aged 2 to 18 years. We developed the Japanese version of the PedsQL Cancer Module and investigated its reliability and validity among Japanese children and their parents. ⋯ The results demonstrate the reliability and validity of the Japanese version of the PedsQL Cancer Module among Japanese children.