This questionnaire covers the following domains: demographics, health status and quality of life, knowledge and risk factors (cardiovascular and diabetes), health utilisation and access to healthcare, and perceived concern and understanding of risk.
One month later, the interviewers again visited the patients to register the pill count (measure of treatment adherence behaviour), and to ask about their quality of life, knowledge of their medical prescription and their attitude to treatment adherence.
"Everything has got better – my quality of life, my knowledge, my tools.
Assess whether the Asthma, Sport and Health (ASAH) programme taught by teachers improves asthmatics' quality of life, asthma knowledge, and reduces school absenteeism.
The two secondary outcomes include health-related quality of life and knowledge of the conditions.
Health behaviors, quality of life, and knowledge of diabetes had become better in group care patients than in control subjects (P < 0.001, for all).
Other secondary clinical outcomes include analysis of changes in HF-related quality of life, HF knowledge, and HF self-management behaviors.
At 4 to 6 weeks, 4 months, and 7 months after the diagnosis, all siblings and their parents completed measures (from standardized instruments) of social support, quality of life, medical knowledge, posttraumatic stress symptoms, and anxiety.
Interventions with family carers which focus on responding to needs and preparing them for their role have produced demonstrable improvements in carer well-being and sense of preparedness [ 11, 12], reduction of unmet needs [ 11, 13– 16], and carer burden and increased quality of life and knowledge of patient symptoms [ 17].
Other factors may equally well indicate clinically relevant treatment effects (e.g. acceptance of disease, improved quality of life, increased knowledge and capability to deal with one's own illness, provision of a basis for improvement of symptoms in the ensuing outpatient therapy).
As more doctors and cancer care centers focus on quality-of-life issues after treatment, knowledge about fertility preservation has begun to spread.
