Individual quality of life : approaches to conceptualisation and assessment /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Joyce, C. R. B. (Charles Richard Boddington), 1923-, McGee, Hannah M., 1959-, OB̓oyle, Ciaran A.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Harwood Academic Publishers, ©1999.
Subjects:	Quality of life. Quality of Life > psychology. Kwaliteit van het bestaan. Metingen. Lebensqualität Empirische Sozialforschung
Online Access:	Table of contents

Table of 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.