A new questionnaire for measuring quality of life - the Stark QoL

Hardt, Jochen

doi:10.1186/s12955-015-0367-5

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“…The Stark QoL is a short, clinically validated, picture-based questionnaire that has good reliability for its physical component and therefore may better evaluate aspects of QoL particular to patients with CLI such as ambulation and independent living. 9 Outcomes included the need for additional procedures, emergency admissions, and amputation rate categorized as major (below or above knee amputation) and minor (toe amputation or transmetatarsal amputation). Procedure times and Trans-Atlantic Inter-Society Consensus (TASC) classification were determined.…”

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Six-Month Freedom From Amputation Rates and Quality of Life Following Tibial and Pedal Endovascular Revascularization for Critical Limb Ischemia

Dua

Rothenberg

Lee

et al. 2019

Vasc Endovascular Surg

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Objective: Patients with critical limb ischemia (CLI) and gangrene have a 10% to 38% rate of major amputation at 6 months. The purpose of this study is to report short-and mid-term major and minor amputation rates for patients who underwent tibial and pedal revascularization in addition to quality-of-life (QoL) scores. Methods: All patients who presented to a single institution with CLI (defined as rest pain or nonhealing wounds) and underwent antegrade or retrograde tibial access, atherectomy and angioplasty of the tibial circulation, and angioplasty of pedal circulation (antegrade or retrograde) from June 2016 to September 2017 were included. The Stark QoL questionnaire was used at each visit. Patients were scored at 1, 3, and 6 months postprocedure. Amputation rates were recorded. Results: Forty-two patients with CLI and gangrene underwent 57 peripheral interventions for limb salvage between June 2016 and September 2017. Thirty-two limbs had dry gangrene along the dorsalis pedis angiosome, 14 limbs had dry gangrene along the posterior tibial angiogram, and 11 limbs had a combined disease pattern. Twelve limbs underwent angioplasty of the superficial femoral artery (SFA), 18 limbs underwent angioplasty and stenting of the SFA, and 14 limbs underwent atherectomy, angioplasty, and stenting of the SFA. All patients had 1 or 2 tibial vessel runoff and high-grade stenosis of the pedal circulation. Immediate technical success defined as 3-vessel outflow to the foot occurred in 49 limbs (86%) with zero 30-day complications (30-day readmission, major amputation, or sepsis). Major amputation rate at 1, 3, and 6 months was 0%, 2%, and 4%, respectively. Patient satisfaction in terms of QoL increased over the 6-month follow-up period. Conclusion: Aggressive tibial and pedal revascularization may improve freedom from minor and major amputation at 6 months and may be associated with a short-and mid-term higher QoL.

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confidence: 99%

Six-Month Freedom From Amputation Rates and Quality of Life Following Tibial and Pedal Endovascular Revascularization for Critical Limb Ischemia

Dua

Rothenberg

Lee

et al. 2019

Vasc Endovascular Surg

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“…17 Ordinal type included scales with pictures or icons such as faces 18 –20 focusing on various physical aspects of wellbeing. Stark QoL 21 used a set of two- and three-point picture scales to visualise mood, degree of social contact and energy (fatigue). The Cantril Self-anchoring Striving Scale used position on a ladder.…”

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Try to see it my way: exploring the co-design of visual presentations of wellbeing through a workshop process

Craven

Goodwin

Rawsthorne

et al. 2019

Perspect Public Health

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Aims: A 10-month project funded by the NewMind network sought to develop the specification of a visualisation toolbox that could be applied on digital platforms (web- or app-based) to support adults with lived experience of mental health difficulties to present and track their personal wellbeing in a multi-media format. Methods: A participant co-design methodology, Double Diamond from the Design Council (Great Britain), was used consisting of four phases: Discover – a set of literature and app searches of wellbeing and health visualisation material; Define – an initial workshop with participants with lived experience of mental health problems to discuss wellbeing and visualisation techniques and to share personal visualisations; Develop – a second workshop to add detail to personal visualisations, for example, forms of media to be employed, degree of control over sharing; and Deliver – to disseminate the learning from the exercise. Results: Two design workshops were held in December 2017 and April 2018 with 13 and 12 experts-by-experience involved, respectively, including two peer researchers (co-authors) and two individual-carer dyads in each workshop, with over 50% of those being present in both workshops. A total of 20 detailed visualisations were produced, the majority focusing on highly personal and detailed presentations of wellbeing. Discussion: While participants concurred on a range of typical dimensions of wellbeing, the individual visualisations generated were in contrast to the techniques currently employed by existing digital wellbeing apps and there was a great diversity in preference for different visualisation types. Participants considered personal visualisations to be useful as self-administered interventions or as a step towards seeking help, as well as being tools for self-appraisal. Conclusion: The results suggest that an authoring approach using existing apps may provide the high degree of flexibility required. Training on such tools, delivered via a module on a recovery college course, could be offered.

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“…Moreover, informed consent was taken from each patient during the face-to- face interviews. Part of the questionnaire was a modified SF-36 questionnaire [ 27 ] for health to assess patient's perceived satisfaction or dissatisfaction in the significant domains of including (life stress, boredom, loneliness, depression, and suicidal thoughts). Each item has five tail questions, to select one of the five (not at all, a little bit, moderately, quite a bit, or extremely).…”

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The impact of social distancing and self-isolation in the last corona COVID-19 outbreak on the body weight in Sulaimani governorate- Kurdistan/Iraq, a prospective case series study

Ahmed¹

2020

Annals of Medicine and Surgery

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Background Our area, corona (COVID-19) quarantine was applied from March 14 to April 23, 2020. It was in all forms, including curfew, social distancing, self-quarantine, area quarantine, self-monitoring, and isolation. Due to their concerns about their safety and families, friends, colleagues, and society, everybody was feeling upset, fearful, and anxious. Several studies have reported an association between prolonged sitting time and weight gain. As a way to relieve the tension during that period, people started stocking up on unhealthy foods like over-salted snacks and over-sweetened sugars. People stayed at home, feeling bored, anxious, and stressed and sought relief by eating. Also, there was a rise in emotional eating when the stress of isolation increased by the closure of gyms, casinos, and movie theaters. Moreover, restaurants were allowed to serve the only takeout. Besides, unemployment was skyrocketing, hospitals were overflowing (or were preparing for the possibility), many people were struggling to meet their basic needs, and no one knows when or how it would end. Objective The study aimed to figure out whether social isolation during the COVID-19 quarantine is consistent and associated with emotional eating and gaining weight or not. Methods A prospective cross-sectional case series study was conducted on 765 patients who have visited the bariatric clinic in Sulaimani city, Kurdistan-Iraq, from April 23 to June 23, 2020. An individual face-to-face interview was conducted with each participant to obtain signed informed consent, provide them with information about the type and the subject of the work, and ask them the study's questions. Each interview lasted between 30 and 45 min and was conducted in a closed session by two Kurdistan Board trainees. Results No patient who was quarantined for the COVID-19 was included in the work, but all other patients were included. The selected patients were those who had undergone social distancing (n = 568, 82.48%) by the local law and did self-isolation (n = 134, 17.51%) at home for reasons like having comorbidity, being prone to contamination due to their jobs (health, police, and media workers), having some family members at home with comorbidity (n = 23, 03.00%), and having comorbidity and having undergone social distancing because of their other family members’ need to do so for their physical disability (n = 25, 03.27%). Almost all patients (n = 741, 96.86%), even, those with comorbidity (n = 136, 17.78%) , were emotionally stable before the outbreak . Seventy-three female patients (09.54%) and138 males (20.65%) sustain their weight during and two months after the outbreak, while the rest (n = 554, 72.41%) gained different amounts of weight. Conclusion Social distancing and self-isolation in the last COVID-19 outbreak influenced weight gain, but wei...

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A new questionnaire for measuring quality of life - the Stark QoL

Cited by 19 publications

References 23 publications

Six-Month Freedom From Amputation Rates and Quality of Life Following Tibial and Pedal Endovascular Revascularization for Critical Limb Ischemia

Six-Month Freedom From Amputation Rates and Quality of Life Following Tibial and Pedal Endovascular Revascularization for Critical Limb Ischemia

Try to see it my way: exploring the co-design of visual presentations of wellbeing through a workshop process

The impact of social distancing and self-isolation in the last corona COVID-19 outbreak on the body weight in Sulaimani governorate- Kurdistan/Iraq, a prospective case series study

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