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Individual quality of life : approaches to conceptualisation and assessment / edited by C.R.B. Joyce, Hannah M. McGee and Ciaran A. OB̓oyle.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Amsterdam : Harwood Academic Publishers, [1999]Copyright date: ©1999Description: xii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 905702425X
  • 9789057024252
  • 9057024241
  • 9789057024245
Other title:
  • Approaches to conceptualisation and assessment
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300.72
LOC classification:
  • HN25 .I64 1999
Contents:
Foreword -- List of Contributors -- Pt. I. Conceptual and Methodological Principles -- 1. Introduction: The Individual Perspective -- 2. Measuring the Quality of Life: Why, How and What? -- 3. Cognitive Theories and Individual Quality of Life Assessment -- 4. A Reformulation of Quality of Life for Medical Science -- 5. Methodological Issues in Individual Quality of Life Assessment -- 6. Individualising Assessment in Intervention Studies: N-of-1 Trials -- Pt. II. Specific Approaches to Individual Quality of Life Assessment -- 7. Interpretation of Data from Health Status Measures: What do the Numbers Mean? -- 8. Individualising Questionnaires -- 9. The Patient Generated Index -- 10. The Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life -- 11. Methods for Assessing Relative Importance in Preference Based Outcome Measures -- 12. Selected Methods for Assessing Individual Quality of Life -- Pt. III. Applications of Individual Quality of Life Assessment -- 13. Individual Quality of Life and Population Studies -- 14. Individual Quality of Life and Assessment by Carers or 'Proxy' Respondents -- 15. Individual Quality of Life in Palliative Care -- Pt. VI. Future Directions -- 16. Individual Quality of Life: Review and Outlook -- App. The Researcher's Tale: A Story of Virtue Lost and Regained -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword -- List of Contributors -- Pt. I. Conceptual and Methodological Principles -- 1. Introduction: The Individual Perspective -- 2. Measuring the Quality of Life: Why, How and What? -- 3. Cognitive Theories and Individual Quality of Life Assessment -- 4. A Reformulation of Quality of Life for Medical Science -- 5. Methodological Issues in Individual Quality of Life Assessment -- 6. Individualising Assessment in Intervention Studies: N-of-1 Trials -- Pt. II. Specific Approaches to Individual Quality of Life Assessment -- 7. Interpretation of Data from Health Status Measures: What do the Numbers Mean? -- 8. Individualising Questionnaires -- 9. The Patient Generated Index -- 10. The Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life -- 11. Methods for Assessing Relative Importance in Preference Based Outcome Measures -- 12. Selected Methods for Assessing Individual Quality of Life -- Pt. III. Applications of Individual Quality of Life Assessment -- 13. Individual Quality of Life and Population Studies -- 14. Individual Quality of Life and Assessment by Carers or 'Proxy' Respondents -- 15. Individual Quality of Life in Palliative Care -- Pt. VI. Future Directions -- 16. Individual Quality of Life: Review and Outlook -- App. The Researcher's Tale: A Story of Virtue Lost and Regained -- Index.

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