Individual quality of life : approaches to conceptualisation and assessment /
Approaches to conceptualisation and assessment
edited by C.R.B. Joyce, Hannah M. McGee and Ciaran A. OBÌ“oyle.
- xii, 234 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword -- List of Contributors -- Conceptual and Methodological Principles -- Introduction: The Individual Perspective -- Measuring the Quality of Life: Why, How and What? -- Cognitive Theories and Individual Quality of Life Assessment -- A Reformulation of Quality of Life for Medical Science -- Methodological Issues in Individual Quality of Life Assessment -- Individualising Assessment in Intervention Studies: N-of-1 Trials -- Specific Approaches to Individual Quality of Life Assessment -- Interpretation of Data from Health Status Measures: What do the Numbers Mean? -- Individualising Questionnaires -- The Patient Generated Index -- The Schedule for the Evaluation of Individual Quality of Life -- Methods for Assessing Relative Importance in Preference Based Outcome Measures -- Selected Methods for Assessing Individual Quality of Life -- Applications of Individual Quality of Life Assessment -- Individual Quality of Life and Population Studies -- Individual Quality of Life and Assessment by Carers or 'Proxy' Respondents -- Individual Quality of Life in Palliative Care -- Future Directions -- Individual Quality of Life: Review and Outlook -- The Researcher's Tale: A Story of Virtue Lost and Regained -- Index. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. II. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Pt. III. 13. 14. 15. Pt. VI. 16. App.
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Quality of life. Social sciences--Research--Methodology. Social service--Research--Methodology Quality of life--Psychological aspects