Description
Book Synopsis"Anyone seeking to identify potentially useful disease-specific measures for their study will find this a good starting point." Quality of Life Research
Praise for the first edition:
"...text that is remarkably detailed and comprehensive in its coverage of a range of quality of life measures...Bowling's book provides an important step towards the development of measures of quality of life that are both sensitive and rigorous." - Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
"...a most useful and comprehensive addition to the literature...The book is readable, well referenced and up to date. I recommend any group that wishes to attempt to measure health outcomes to consider adding this book to their resource list." - Australian Health Review
"...this book gives an in-depth and comprehensive insight in health-related quality of life scales...a most valuable guide in helping the reader search for the scale with the best psychometric properties. Fur
Table of Contents
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Health-related quality of life
conceptual meaning, use and measurement
Cancers
Psychiatric conditions and psychological morbidity
Respiratory conditions
Neurological conditions
Rheumatological conditions
Cardiovascular diseases
Other disease-and condition-specific scales
Appendix
a selection of useful scale distributors and addresses
References
Index.
