Sickness Impact Profile

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A comparison of three health status measures in primary care outpatients. 
  • A low-vision rehabilitation program for patients with mild cognitive deficits. 
  • A new instrument for measuring anticoagulation-related quality of life: development and preliminary validation. 
  • A pilot quality-of-life instrument for acne rosacea. 
  • A procedure for obtaining impact of cancer version 2 scores using version 1 responses. 
  • Abandoning the language of "response shift": a plea for conceptual clarity in distinguishing scale recalibration from true changes in quality of life. 
  • Admission to the intensive care unit and well-being in patients with advanced chronic illness. 
  • An evaluation of the reliability and validity of the visual functioning questionnaire (VF-11) using Rasch analysis in an Asian population. 
  • An item-level response shift study on the change of health state with the rating of asthma-specific quality of life: a report from the PROMIS(®) Pediatric Asthma Study. 
  • An opportunity to refine our understanding of "response shift" and to educate researchers on designing quality research studies: response to Ubel, Peeters, and Smith. 
  • Assessing the impact of cancer among Dutch non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivors compared with their American counterparts: a cross-national study. 
  • Assessment of quality of life in outpatients with advanced cancer: the accuracy of clinician estimations and the relevance of spiritual well-being--a Hoosier Oncology Group Study. 
  • Assessment of the psychometric properties of the Chinese Impact of Vision Impairment questionnaire in a population-based study: findings from the Singapore Chinese Eye Study. 
  • Association between anatomical resolution and functional outcomes in the mivi-trust studies using ocriplasmin to treat symptomatic vitreomacular adhesion/vitreomacular traction, including when associated with macular hole. 
  • Associations of cancer and other chronic medical conditions with SF-6D preference-based scores in Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Associations of eye diseases and symptoms with self-reported physical and mental health. 
  • Associations of presbyopia with vision-targeted health-related quality of life. 
  • Baseline characteristics, the 25-Item National Eye Institute Visual Functioning Questionnaire, and their associations in the Complications of Age-Related Macular Degeneration Prevention Trial (CAPT). 
  • Botulinum toxin type B: a double-blind, placebo-controlled, safety and efficacy study in cervical dystonia. 
  • Cancer, comorbidities, and health-related quality of life of older adults. 
  • Change in vision-related quality of life and influencing factors in Asians receiving treatment for neovascular age-related macular degeneration. 
  • Cigarette smoking and health-related quality of life in Medicare beneficiaries. 
  • Clinical outcomes for patients classified by fear-avoidance beliefs and centralization phenomenon. 
  • Clinical profiles of primary open angle glaucoma versus normal tension glaucoma patients: a pilot study. 
  • Cognitive Impairment among Veterans in Outpatient Vision Rehabilitation. 
  • Cognitive and psychological outcomes of exercise in a 1-year follow-up study of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. 
  • Compared to what? A joint evaluation method for assessing quality of life. 
  • Comparison of two depression measures for predicting stroke outcomes. 
  • Coping and quality of life in patients awaiting lung transplantation. 
  • Cost-effectiveness analysis of integrated care for people with HIV, chronic mental illness and substance abuse disorders. 
  • Development of a disease activity and responder index for psoriatic arthritis--report of the Psoriatic Arthritis Module at OMERACT 11. 
  • Development of a preference-based index from the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25. 
  • Development of the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire. 
  • Diabetes-specific emotional distress among African Americans and Hispanics with type 2 diabetes. 
  • Disease-specific measure of quality of life for myasthenia gravis. 
  • Driving ability reported by neovascular age-related macular degeneration patients after treatment with ranibizumab. 
  • Effect of improving depression care on pain and functional outcomes among older adults with arthritis: a randomized controlled trial. 
  • Effects of epilepsy surgery on quality of life: a controlled study in a Middle Eastern population. 
  • Effects of exercise training on health status in patients with chronic heart failure: HF-ACTION randomized controlled trial. 
  • Ethnic differences in undercorrected refractive error in Asians. 
  • Evaluation of minimum clinically meaningful changes in scores on the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEI-VFQ) SST Report Number 19. 
  • Evaluation of the Intermittent Exotropia Questionnaire using Rasch analysis. 
  • Fatigue in breast cancer survivors two to five years post diagnosis: a HEAL Study report. 
  • Frailty and Neurocognitive Impairment: Impacts on Quality of Life in HIV. 
  • Function in elderly cancer survivors depends on comorbidities. 
  • Glaucoma and associated visual acuity and field loss significantly affect glaucoma-specific psychosocial functioning. 
  • Health literacy and vision-related quality of life. 
  • Health status among women with menstrual symptoms. 
  • Health- and vision-related quality of life among patients with choroidal neovascularization secondary to age-related macular degeneration at enrollment in randomized trials of submacular surgery: SST report no. 4. 
  • Health-related quality of life after ileoanal pull-through evaluation and assessment of new health status measures. 
  • Health-related quality of life among older adults with arthritis. 
  • Health-related quality of life and health service use among older adults with osteoarthritis. 
  • Health-related quality of life and symptom management research sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. 
  • Health-related quality of life differences between African Americans and non-Hispanic whites with head and neck cancer. 
  • Health-related quality of life in children with untreated intermittent exotropia and their parents. 
  • Impact of bilateral open and closed-angle glaucoma on glaucoma-specific functioning in Asians. 
  • Impact of diabetic retinopathy on vision-specific function. 
  • Impact of symptomatic dry eye on vision-related daily activities: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Improved fitness narrows the symptom-reporting gap between older men and women. 
  • Improved vision-related function after ranibizumab for macular edema after retinal vein occlusion: results from the BRAVO and CRUISE trials. 
  • Improvements in health-related quality of life following a group intervention for coping with AIDS-bereavement among HIV-infected men and women. 
  • Individuals' Perspectives on Coping with Vision Loss from Diabetic Retinopathy. 
  • Inter-relationship between visual symptoms, activity limitation and psychological functioning in patients with diabetic retinopathy. 
  • Less is more, or almost as much: a 15-item quality-of-life instrument for myasthenia gravis. 
  • Literacy is an independent risk factor for vision impairment and poor visual functioning. 
  • Management of dyspnea within a rapid learning healthcare model. 
  • Minor depression and physical outcome trajectories in heart failure and pulmonary disease. 
  • Morbidity in 258 bipolar outpatients followed for 1 year with daily prospective ratings on the NIMH life chart method. 
  • NailQoL: a quality-of-life instrument for onychomycosis. 
  • Newer drugs and earlier treatment: impact on lifetime cost of care for HIV-infected adults. 
  • Outcome measurement in behavioral headache research: headache parameters and psychosocial outcomes. 
  • Pain catastrophizing in patients with noncardiac chest pain: relationships with pain, anxiety, and disability. 
  • Pain, quality of life, and spinal accessory nerve status after neck dissection. 
  • Patient-centered outcomes for frequent headaches. 
  • Patient-reported outcomes assessment in cancer trials: evaluating and enhancing the payoff to decision making. 
  • Patient-reported outcomes assessment in cancer trials: taking stock, moving forward. 
  • Patterns of exercise across the cancer trajectory in brain tumor patients. 
  • Performance of a mail-administered version of a stroke-specific outcome measure, the Stroke Impact Scale. 
  • Performance of a weight-related measure of Quality of Life in a psychiatric sample. 
  • Physical function and independence 1 year after myocardial infarction: observations from the Translational Research Investigating Underlying disparities in recovery from acute Myocardial infarction: Patients' Health status registry. 
  • Point of view. 
  • Prospective randomized study of mode switching in a clinical trial of pacemaker therapy for sinus node dysfunction. 
  • Prospective study of neuropsychologic testing and quality-of-life assessment of adults with primary malignant brain tumors. 
  • Psychological Predictors of Outcomes with Lumbar Spinal Fusion: A Systematic Literature Review. 
  • Psychological approaches to understanding and treating arthritis pain. 
  • Psychometric evaluation of 2 comprehensive condition-specific quality of life instruments for women with pelvic floor disorders. 
  • Psychometric properties of a tool for measuring hormone-related symptoms in breast cancer survivors. 
  • Psychometric properties of the HIT-6 among patients in a headache-specialty practice. 
  • Quality of life after macular translocation with 360 degrees peripheral retinectomy for age-related macular degeneration. 
  • Quality-of-life impact of non-neoplastic voice disorders: a meta-analysis. 
  • Rasch analysis in the development of a simplified version of the National Eye Institute Visual-Function Questionnaire-25 for utility estimation. 
  • Recent viral infection in US blood donors and health-related quality of life (HRQOL). 
  • Recovery expectations and long-term prognosis of patients with coronary heart disease. 
  • Recovery of the neurosensory retina after macular translocation surgery is independent of preoperative macular sensitivity in neovascular age-related macular degeneration. 
  • Reducing respondent burden: validation of the Brief Impact of Vision Impairment questionnaire. 
  • Responsiveness of the Pelvic Floor Distress Inventory (PFDI) and Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire (PFIQ) in women undergoing vaginal surgery and pessary treatment for pelvic organ prolapse. 
  • Scalpdex: a quality-of-life instrument for scalp dermatitis. 
  • Standardizing patient-reported outcomes assessment in cancer clinical trials: a patient-reported outcomes measurement information system initiative. 
  • Survivorship navigation outcome measures: a report from the ACS patient navigation working group on survivorship navigation. 
  • Symptom clusters in children. 
  • Systematic review of positive youth development programs for adolescents with chronic illness. 
  • The FIBROID Registry: symptom and quality-of-life status 1 year after therapy. 
  • The Localized Scleroderma Cutaneous Assessment Tool: responsiveness to change in a pediatric clinical population. 
  • The Myositis Activities Profile -- initial validation for assessment of polymyositis/dermatomyositis in the USA. 
  • The PESSRI study: symptom relief outcomes of a randomized crossover trial of the ring and Gellhorn pessaries. 
  • The e-MSWS-12: improving the multiple sclerosis walking scale using item response theory. 
  • The effect of body mass on health-related quality of life among Singaporean adolescents: results from the SCORM study. 
  • The impact of Tourette Syndrome in adults: results from the Tourette Syndrome impact survey. 
  • The impact of bilateral or unilateral cataract surgery on visual functioning: when does second eye cataract surgery benefit patients? 
  • The impact of cancer and quality of life for post-treatment non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivors. 
  • The impact of cataract, cataract types, and cataract grades on vision-specific functioning using Rasch analysis. 
  • The impact of corrected and uncorrected refractive error on visual functioning: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • The impact of diabetic retinopathy: understanding the patient's perspective. 
  • The relationship between chief complaint and comparable sign in patients with spinal pain: An exploratory study. 
  • Toward a very brief quality of life enjoyment and Satisfaction Questionnaire. 
  • Use of tablet personal computers for sensitive patient-reported information. 
  • Utility of EQ-5D to assess patients undergoing cataract surgery. 
  • Validation and Banding of the ItchyQuant: A Self-Report Itch Severity Scale. 
  • Validation of the PROMIS physical function measures in a diverse US population-based cohort of cancer patients. 
  • Vision impairment and major causes of vision loss impacts on vision-specific functioning independent of socioeconomic factors. 
  • Vision impairment and major eye diseases reduce vision-specific emotional well-being in a Chinese population. 
  • Vision impairment, ocular conditions, and vision-specific function: the Singapore Malay Eye Study. 
  • Vision-Targeted Health-Related Quality of Life in Adult Survivors of Retinoblastoma. 
  • Vision-related quality of life in children with glaucoma. 
  • Vision-related quality of life in patients with bilateral severe age-related macular degeneration. 
  • Vision-related quality of life in people with central retinal vein occlusion using the 25-item National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire. 
  • Visual impairment and its impact on health-related quality of life in adolescents. 
  • Why are you calling me? How study introductions change response patterns. 
  • Why should changing the bathwater have to harm the baby? 
  • Worsening depressive symptoms are associated with adverse clinical outcomes in patients with heart failure. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Muir, Kelly Walton, Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmology, Glaucoma
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology
  • Stinnett, Sandra Sue, Associate Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics
  • Toth, Cynthia Ann, Joseph A.C. Wadsworth Distinguished Professor of Ophthalmology, Biomedical Engineering