• Social health
• health disparities
• loneliness
• social connection
• social relationships

• Humans
• Health Status
• Mental Health
• Population Health
• Quality of Life

• SF-36
• SF-6D
• epilepsy
• health status
• quality-adjusted life-year
• stroke

• Health-related quality of life
• Kidney Transplant Questionnaire 25
• Kidney transplant recipients
• Kidney transplantation
• Quality of life

• cognitive interview
• content validity
• informal care
• mental health
• outcome measurement
• qualitative research

• Adult
• Humans
• Quality of Life
• Caregivers
• Feasibility Studies
• Surveys and Questionnaires
• United Kingdom
• Reproducibility of Results

• CDF-2015-08-025 Department of Health

• dementia
• involvement
• lifelong learning
• observation
• validated measures
• video

• Dementia
• Humans
• Feasibility Studies
• Qualitative Research
• Validation Studies as Topic
• Pilot Projects
• Denmark
• Patient Education as Topic
• Reproducibility of Results

• COVID-19 pandemic
• friendship
• perceived threat
• professional isolation
• well-being

There are several methods for assessing health status. The aims of this study were to investigate the empirical differences between health assessment objective and subjective methods, to identify a possible long-term relationship between methods and health determinants and the influence of these methods on the perceived level of risk according to health determinants.

Using data from 1970 to 2018 in the United States, health status was assessed by perception of health, absence from work due to self-reported illness, life expectancy at birth and mortality rate. Health determinants were tobacco and alcohol consumptions, number of physicians per 1,000 persons, stay in hospitalization unit, curative care, release of greenhouse gases, per capita gross domestic product (GDP) and urbanization. The differences between health objective and subjective assessment methods were investigated through a Generalized linear model, a structural break date of health methods was investigated by Chow test and the long-term relationship between health assessment methods and health determinants by Engle and Granger cointegration test.

Tobacco consumption was associated with a decrease of life expectancy while no long-term causal relationship was found between them. There was a positive correlation between alcohol consumption and perception of good health with a long-term causal relationship. Although per capita GDP positively influenced life expectancy, there was no cointegration between them. The release of greenhouse gases was positively correlated with both the absence from work due to self-reported illness and the perception of good health. Finally, curative care was associated with a decrease of mortality and absence from work due to self-reported illness and an increase of life expectancy and perception of good health while hospitalization is positively correlated with mortality and negatively correlated with life expectancy with a long-term causal relationship. Finally, the number of physicians per 1,000 persons was not correlated with health assessment methods used.

Our results highlight the influence of health assessment methods on the determinants of health and the fact that the perceived risk of health determinants changes according to the method used. Thus, the impact of health assessment methods must be considered in order to prioritize the determinants of health.

• Greenhouse Gases
• Gross Domestic Product
• Health Status
• Humans
• Infant, Newborn
• Life Expectancy
• Self Report
• United States/epidemiology

• Herniorrhaphy
• Humans
• Pain
• Psychometrics
• Reproducibility of Results
• Self Report

• R01 AR066200 NIAMS NIH HHS
• R37 AG057685 NIA NIH HHS

• neighbourhood effect
• psycho-physical well-being
• self-efficacy
• social capital
• social cohesion

• Adolescent
• Child
• Cooperative Behavior
• Humans
• Residence Characteristics
• Schools
• Self Efficacy
• Socioeconomic Factors

In this present study, we aimed to perform the reliability and validity analyses of the Turkish Form of Short Form-12 version 2 (SF-12v2) in different groups of patients.

After the permission for the validation study of the Turkish Form, Optum provided the authors the validly translated Turkish Form of SF-12v2. The study was carried out in rheumatological, psychiatric, and surgical wards of Manisa Celal Bayar University Hafsa Sultan Training and Research Center between September 2019 and June 2020. Taking possible dropouts into consideration, a total of 136 patients (67 males, 69 females; mean age: 43.5±14.4 years; range 19 to 82 years) constituted the study group. In addition to SF-12v2, for concurrent validity, Nottingham Health Profile (NHP) was used as the comparator instrument.

In internal consistency, for the physical component summary score, the Cronbach alpha coefficient was 0.80, and item-total score correlation coefficients were between 0.32 and 0.73. The Cronbach alpha coefficient of the mental component summary score was found to be 0.88 where the item-total correlation coefficients varied between 0.60 and 0.78. Exploratory factor analysis revealed a two-factor solution, representing mental and physical components. For criterion validity, convergent and discriminant validity analyses were performed using NHP with SF-12v2, and domains of SF-12v2 correlated well with the domains of NHP accordingly. In criterion validity, the psychiatric group had the lowest mean score in mental health, vitality, social functioning and role difficulties due to emotional problems, whereas the surgical group had the lowest mean score in bodily pain, role difficulties due to physical problems, and physical functioning.

Our study results show that the Turkish form of SF-12v2 is valid and reliable both in clinical practice and clinical trials.

• Nottingham Health Profile
• Short Form-12
• quality of life
• validation

Nowadays, more and more women are engaging in entrepreneurial activities. Meanwhile, female entrepreneurs’ health problems have been increasingly reported worldwide. What factors would influence female entrepreneurs’ health are the subject of this paper.

This paper focuses on the effects of entrepreneurial experience and age of firm on female entrepreneurs’ health through the analysis of 2 years of tracking data in the Bohai Economic Rim, which is one of the most developed areas for entrepreneurial activities in China.

Results from the samples of female entrepreneurs demonstrate that increasing entrepreneurial experience and growing firm age could help female entrepreneurs to activate multiple positive identities. These identities can help female entrepreneurs cope with gender stereotype threat and maintain good health.

This paper contributes to entrepreneur health research in two aspects. First, this study focused on entrepreneurial history indexed by entrepreneurial experience and firm age, enriching the field of female entrepreneurship. Second, this study further explored the mechanism that women cope with stereotype threat in the context of entrepreneurship. At the same time, this paper addresses ways that policy-makers and social media are responsible to help female entrepreneurs stay healthy.

The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1186/s12905-021-01471-6.

• Entrepreneurial experience
• Female entrepreneur
• Firm age
• Health

• assessment scale
• methodological quality
• outcome measure
• psychometrics properties
• shoulder
• systematic review

• COPD
• Content validity
• HRQoL
• Preference-based measures

• Aged
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Ontario
• Patient Preference/psychology
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/economics
• Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive/psychology
• Quality of Life
• Surveys and Questionnaires/standards

• Heart failure
• Mixed-studies review
• Narrative synthesis
• Needs-assessment
• Needs-measurement
• Palliative care
• Systematic review

• Mental Health
• Quality of Life

• Korean
• Osteoporosis
• QUALEFFO-41
• Quality of life
• Validation

• classification
• health status
• patient-centered
• values

• Activities of Daily Living
• Adolescent
• Adult
• Cost of Illness
• Female
• Health Status
• Health Status Indicators
• Humans
• Male
• Mental Health
• Middle Aged
• Netherlands
• Patient Reported Outcome Measures
• Patient-Centered Care/methods
• Quality of Life
• Social Behavior
• Young Adult

The Malay version of the Psychosocial Impact of Dental Aesthetics Questionnaire has been validated for use by Malaysian adolescents. Although Malay is their national language, English is widely used as the lingua franca among Malaysians of different ethnicities. This study aimed to validate an English version of the PIDAQ adapted for use by Malaysian adolescents to optimize data capture from adolescents who prefer English as the medium for communication.

The published English version of PIDAQ was pilot tested on 12- to 17-year-old adolescents, resulting in a few modifications to suit the Malaysian variety of English. Psychometric properties were tested on 393 adolescents who attended orthodontic practices and selected schools. Malocclusion was assessed using the Malocclusion Index, an aggregation of Perception of Occlusion Scale and the Aesthetic Component of the Index of Orthodontic Treatment Need, by the subjects (MI-S) and investigators (MI-D). Data were analysed for internal consistency and age-associated invariance, discriminant, construct and criterion validities, reproducibility and floor and ceiling effects using AMOS v.20 and SPSS v.20.

The item Don’t like own teeth on video of the Aesthetic Concern (AC) subscale was not relevant to a large proportion of participants (11.7%). Therefore, it was removed and the Malaysian English PIDAQ was analysed based on 22 items instead of 23 items. Confirmatory factor analysis showed good fit statistics (comparative fit index: 0.902, root-mean-square error of approximation: 0.066). Internal consistency was good for the Dental Self-Confidence, Social Impact and Psychological Impact subscales (Cronbach’s alpha: 0.70-0.95) but lower (0.52–0.62) though acceptable for the AC subscale as it consisted of only 2 items. The reproducibility test was acceptable (intra-class correlations: 0.53–0.78). For all PIDAQ subscales, the MI-S and MI-D scores of those with severe malocclusion differed significantly from those with no or slight malocclusion. There were significant associations between the PIDAQ subscales with ranking of perceived dental appearance, need for braces and impact of malocclusion on daily activities. There were no floor or ceiling effects.

The adapted Malaysian English PIDAQ demonstrated adequate psychometric properties that are valid and reliable for assessment of psychological impacts of dental aesthetics among Malaysian adolescents.

• Adolescent
• Cross-cultural adaptation
• Impact-related need
• Malocclusion
• Oral health-related quality of life
• Patient-reported outcome measure

• Fatigue
• Ferritin
• Hemoglobin
• Postpartum period
• Quality of life

This research was conducted with an aim of determining the association between employment status and self-rated health.

Using the data from the Third Korean Working Conditions Survey conducted in 2011, We included data from 34,783 respondents, excluding employers, self-employed workers, unpaid family workers, others. Self-rated health was compared according to employment status and a logistic regression analysis was performed.

Among the 34,783 workers, the number of permanent and non-permanent workers was 27,564 (79.2 %) and 7,219 (20.8 %). The risk that the self-rated health of non-permanent workers was poor was 1.20 times higher when both socio-demographic factors, work environment and work hazards were corrected.

In this study, perceived health was found to be worse in the non-permanent workers than permanent workers. Additional research should investigate whether other factors mediate the relationship between employment status and perceived health.

• Employment status
• Korean Working Conditions Survey
• Precarious work
• Self-rated health

• Cancer
• Fatigue
• Intra-individual change
• Measured change
• Patient-reported outcomes

• Fatigue/psychology
• Female
• Humans
• Middle Aged
• Neoplasms/complications
• Patient Reported Outcome Measures
• Quality of Life/psychology
• Surveys and Questionnaires

• U01 AR057929 NIAMS NIH HHS
• U01 AR052181 NIAMS NIH HHS
• U01 AR057954 NIAMS NIH HHS
• U01 AR057940 NIAMS NIH HHS
• U01 AR057948 NIAMS NIH HHS
• KL2 TR001432 NCATS NIH HHS
• U01 AR057956 NIAMS NIH HHS
• U01 AR052158 NIAMS NIH HHS
• U01 AR057971 NIAMS NIH HHS
• P30 CA060553 NCI NIH HHS
• U01 AR057967 NIAMS NIH HHS
• U01 AR052155 NIAMS NIH HHS
• U54 AR057943 NIAMS NIH HHS
• U01 AR052171 NIAMS NIH HHS
• U01 AR057936 NIAMS NIH HHS
• U01 AR052186 NIAMS NIH HHS
• U54 AR057951 NIAMS NIH HHS
• U54 AR057926 NIAMS NIH HHS

• cancer
• differential item functioning
• patient-reported outcomes
• psychometrics
• social function

• P30 CA051008 NCI NIH HHS
• U01 AR057971 NIAMS NIH HHS

• Alkaptonuria
• Inborn errors of metabolism
• Metabolomics
• Nitisinone
• Tyrosine metabolism
• Tyrosinemia

• outcome assessments
• questionnaires
• self-reported outcome measures

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Anthropology, Cultural
• Child
• Child, Preschool
• Culture
• Delivery of Health Care/ethnology
• Female
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Health Status
• Humans
• Infant
• Infant, Newborn
• Male
• Medicine, Traditional
• Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
• Philippines/epidemiology
• Politics
• Socioeconomic Factors

• Sleep
• health measurement
• outcomes
• public policy

• Health
• Humans
• Public Health
• Research
• Sleep/physiology
• Sleep Deprivation/diagnosis
• Terminology as Topic

• R01 MH078961 NIMH NIH HHS

Our key objective is to identify the core domains of health-related quality of life (QoL). Health-related QoL utility scales are commonly used in economic evaluations to assess the effectiveness of health-care interventions. However, health-care interventions are likely to affect QoL in a broader sense than is quantifiable with traditional scales. Therefore, measures need to go beyond these scales. Unfortunately, there is no consensus in the scientific literature on the essential domains of QoL.

We conducted a three-stage online Delphi consensus procedure to identify the key domains of health-related QoL. Five stakeholder groups (i.e., patients, family of patients, clinicians, scientists and general public) were asked, on three consecutive occasions, what they perceive as the most important domains of health-related QoL. An analysis of existing (health-related) QoL and well-being measurements formed the basis of the Delphi-procedure.

In total, 42 domains of QoL were judged, covering physical, mental and social aspects. All participants rated ‘self-acceptance’, ‘self-esteem’ and ‘good social contacts’ as essential. Strikingly, mental and social domains are perceived as more essential than physical domains across stakeholders groups.

In traditionally used health-related QoL utility measures, physical domains like ‘mobility’ are prominently present. The Delphi-procedure shows that health-related QoL (utility) scales need to put sufficient emphasis on mental and social domains to capture aspects of QoL that are essential to people.

• Activities of Daily Living/psychology
• Adult
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Delphi Technique
• Family
• Female
• Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
• Health Personnel
• Humans
• Interpersonal Relations
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Outcome Assessment, Health Care/economics
• Outcome Assessment, Health Care/methods
• Patients
• Personal Autonomy
• Personal Satisfaction
• Professional-Patient Relations
• Public Opinion
• Quality Indicators, Health Care/statistics & numerical data
• Quality of Life
• Research Personnel
• Self Concept
• Surveys and Questionnaires

The present study protocol describes the trial design of a clinician training intervention to improve physical activity counseling in underserved primary care settings using the 5As. The 5As (Ask, Advise, Agree, Assist, Arrange) are a clinical tool recommended for health behavior counseling in primary care.

The study is a two-arm randomized pilot pragmatic trial to examine a primary care clinician communication intervention on use of the 5As in discussion of physical activity in audio-recorded office visits in an ethnically diverse, low-income patient population. The study setting consists of two federally qualified community health centers in Rochester, NY. Eligible clinicians (n=15) are recruited and randomized into two groups. Group 1 clinicians participate in the training intervention first; Group 2 clinicians receive the intervention six months later. The intervention and its outcomes are informed by self-determination theory and principles of patient-centered communication. Assessment of outcomes is blinded. The primary outcome will be the frequency and quality of 5As discussions as judged by evaluating 375 audio-recorded patient visits distributed over baseline and in the post-intervention period (immediately post and at six months). Secondary outcomes will be changes in patients’ perceived competence to increase physical activity (Aim 2) and patients and clinicians beliefs regarding whether pertinent barriers to promoting exercise have been reduced. (Aim 3). Exploratory outcomes (Aim 4) are potential mediators of the intervention’s effect and whether the intervention affects actual enrollment in the community program recommended for exercise. The analysis will use repeated measures (in the form of recorded office visits) from each clinician at each time point and aggregate measures of Groups 1 and 2 over time.

Results will help elucidate the role of 5As communication training for clinicians on counseling for physical activity counseling in primary care. Results will explore the effectiveness of the 5As model linked to community resources for physical activity promotion for underserved groups.

• air pollution
• effect modifiers
• mortality
• time-stratified case–crossover analysis
• susceptible subpopulations

• Adult
• Aged
• Air Pollutants/toxicity
• Cross-Over Studies
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Mortality
• Republic of Korea/epidemiology

• R01 ES015028 NIEHS NIH HHS
• R01 01ES015028 NIEHS NIH HHS

• Aged
• Aged, 80 and over
• Emergency Service, Hospital/standards
• Female
• Health Services Needs and Demand/organization & administration
• Health Services Needs and Demand/statistics & numerical data
• Humans
• Interview, Psychological
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Patient Acceptance of Health Care/psychology
• Patient Acceptance of Health Care/statistics & numerical data
• Patient Participation
• Problem Solving
• Quality of Health Care
• Self Report
• Social Isolation/psychology
• Social Support
• Social Work/organization & administration
• Veterans/psychology
• Veterans Health/statistics & numerical data