Volume 32, Issue 5 | Quality of Life Research

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Volume 32, Issue 5

May 2023

Special Section: Methodologies and Considerations for Meaningful Change

Issue Editors:

Andrew Trigg,
William R. Lenderking,
Jan R. Boehnke

27 articles in this issue

Introduction to the special section: “Methodologies and considerations for meaningful change”
Andrew Trigg
William R. Lenderking
Jan R. Boehnke
Editorial 07 April 2023 Pages: 1223 - 1230
Common methods of determining meaningful change in clinical practice: implications for precision patient-reported outcomes
Salene M. W. Jones
Aliana Gaffney
Joseph M. Unger
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change 10 September 2022 Pages: 1231 - 1238
The challenges inherent with anchor-based approaches to the interpretation of important change in clinical outcome assessments
Kathleen W. Wyrwich
Geoffrey R. Norman
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change 18 November 2022 Pages: 1239 - 1246
How scoring limits the usability of minimal important differences (MIDs) as responder definition (RD): an exemplary demonstration using EORTC QLQ-C30 subscales
Kim Cocks
Jacqueline Buchanan
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change 09 July 2022 Pages: 1247 - 1253
How strong should my anchor be for estimating group and individual level meaningful change? A simulation study assessing anchor correlation strength and the impact of sample size, distribution of change scores and methodology on establishing a true meaningful change threshold
Pip Griffiths
Joel Sims
Kim Cocks
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change 19 November 2022 Pages: 1255 - 1264
Correction: How strong should my anchor be for estimating group and individual level meaningful change? A simulation study assessing anchor correlation strength and the impact of sample size, distribution of change scores and methodology on establishing a true meaningful change threshold
Pip Griffiths
Joel Sims
Kim Cocks
Correction 09 February 2023 Pages: 1265 - 1265
Establishing thresholds for meaningful within-individual change using longitudinal item response theory
Jakob Bue Bjorner
Berend Terluin
Pip Griffiths
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change Open access 23 July 2022 Pages: 1267 - 1276
Comparison of anchor-based methods for estimating thresholds of meaningful within-patient change using simulated PROMIS PF 20a data under various joint distribution characteristic conditions
Shanshan Qin
Lauren Nelson
Lori McLeod
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change 13 November 2022 Pages: 1277 - 1293
Transitions in depression: if, how, and when depressive symptoms return during and after discontinuing antidepressants
Arnout C. Smit
Evelien Snippe
Marieke Wichers
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change Open access 23 November 2022 Pages: 1295 - 1306
“From Where I Stand”: using multiple anchors yields different benchmarks for meaningful improvement and worsening in the rheumatoid arthritis flare questionnaire (RA-FQ)
Susan J. Bartlett
Vivian P. Bykerk
CATCH Investigators
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change 08 September 2022 Pages: 1307 - 1318
Using qualitative methods to establish the clinically meaningful threshold for treatment success in alopecia areata
Kathleen W. Wyrwich
Helen Kitchen
Brett A. King
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change 12 July 2022 Pages: 1319 - 1327
A qualitative study to examine meaningful change in physical function associated with weight-loss
Jiat-Ling Poon
Chris Marshall
Nadia N. Ahmad
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change Open access 22 July 2022 Pages: 1329 - 1340
Likely change indexes improve estimates of individual change on patient-reported outcomes
John Devin Peipert
Ron D. Hays
David Cella
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change 03 August 2022 Pages: 1341 - 1352
Correction: Likely change indexes improve estimates of individual change on patient‑reported outcomes
John Devin Peipert
Ron D. Hays
David Cella
Correction 21 November 2022 Pages: 1353 - 1353
Identifying meaningful change on PROMIS short forms in cancer patients: a comparison of item response theory and classic test theory frameworks
Minji K. Lee
John D. Peipert
Amylou C. Dueck
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change Open access 24 September 2022 Pages: 1355 - 1367
Measuring individual true change with PROMIS using IRT-based plausible values
Emily H. Ho
Jay Verkuilen
Felix Fischer
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change 25 October 2022 Pages: 1369 - 1379
Comparison of raw and regression approaches to capturing change on patient-reported outcome measures
David A. Andrae
Brandon Foster
J. Devin Peipert
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change 22 September 2022 Pages: 1381 - 1390
Inferring meaningful change in quality of life with posterior predictive distribution: an alternative to standard error of measurement
Yuelin Li
Special Section: Methodologies for Meaningful Change 09 September 2022 Pages: 1391 - 1400
Likely change indexes do not always index likely change; moreover, there is no need for them
Berend Terluin
Letter to the Editor 05 December 2022 Pages: 1401 - 1402
Minimally important changes do not always reflect minimally important change; moreover, there is no need for them
John Devin Peipert
David Cella
Ron D. Hays
Letter to the Editor 13 February 2023 Pages: 1403 - 1404
Patient-centered care in Coronary Heart Disease: what do you want to measure? A systematic review of reviews on patient-reported outcome measures
Yolanda Pardo
Olatz Garin
Montserrat Ferrer
Review Open access 09 November 2022 Pages: 1405 - 1425
Fasting during cancer treatment: a systematic review
U. Drexler
J. Dörfler
J. Hübner
Review Open access 28 November 2022 Pages: 1427 - 1446
Lived experience of patients with sleep apnea: a systematic synthesis of qualitative evidence
Ai-Ping Chua
Zhi Yi Soh
Shefaly Shorey
OriginalPaper 02 January 2023 Pages: 1447 - 1467
Evaluating health-related quality of life and subjective wellbeing among infertility patients: a cross-sectional study in mainland China
Zhao Shi
Hongwei Nie
Shunping Li
OriginalPaper 09 January 2023 Pages: 1469 - 1480
Do mothers or females without children have better health-related quality of life across their reproductive years?
Chuyao Jin
Leigh R. Tooth
Gita D. Mishra
OriginalPaper 04 January 2023 Pages: 1481 - 1491
Pre-treatment quality of life in patients with salivary gland cancer in comparison with those of head and neck cancer patients
Danbee Kang
Eunhye Kim
Han-Sin Jeong
OriginalPaper 13 December 2022 Pages: 1493 - 1506
Predictors of change in asthma-related quality of life: a longitudinal real-life study in adult asthmatics
Gilles Louis
Benoit Pétré
Renaud Louis
OriginalPaper Open access 03 January 2023 Pages: 1507 - 1520