Consumer based quality of life assessment: a path model of perceived satisfaction

Self-Determination and Quality of Life: Implications for Special Education Services and Supports

“…This approach has been used to evaluate the relative contribution to one's assessed quality of life of a number of personal characteristics, objective life conditions, and provider characteristics. Across a number of studies (Schalock, Lemanowicz, Conroy & Feinstein, 1994;Schalock & Faulkner, 1997;Schalock, Bonham, & Marchand, 2000) personal factors (perceived sense of dignity, health status, and adaptive behavior level), environmental variables (perceived social support, current residence, 5 employment, and integrated activities), and provider characteristics (worker stress and job satisfaction) are significant predictors of a person's assessed quality of life. 2.…”

A qualidade de vida de pessoas com deficiência mental leve

“…Nos últmos anos, as pesqusas que têm como tema a qualdade de vda abrangem dversas populações: usuáros de servços de saúde (Schalock, 2000;Schalock, Bonham & Marchand, 2000;Velanovch, 2001); pessoas que possuem doenças graves (Bullnger & cols., 1996), doenças genétcas ou heredtáras (Bullnger & cols., 2002;Kuhnle, Bullnger & Schwarz, 1996;Mancuso, Peterson & Charlson, 2001) ou doenças crôncas e letas (Almeda & Lourero, 2000;Sabaz, Carns, Lawson, Bleasel & Bye, 2001;Vckery & cols., 2001;Stockler, Osoba, Corey, Goodwn & Tannock, 1999); e, mas recentemente, as pesqusas também nvestgam a qualdade de vda de pessoas dosas (Berglund & Ercsson, 2003;Walsh, 2002).…”

Subjective quality of life in children with intellectual impairment - how can it be assessed?

“…Finally, if children with and without IIm are to be included in the same study, it is important to obtain proxy reports for all children, including those who can complete a self-report, in order to make valid comparisons of QoL across the ability range. 26 + S/P Levi and Drotar (1999) 27 + S/P Parsons et al (1999) 28 + S/P Eiser (1997) 39 + S/P Eiser and Morse (2001) 29 + S/P Britto et al (2004) 30 + S/P Waters et al (2000) 33 + P Antaki and Rapley (1996) 22 + S Felce (1997) 40 + S Antaki (1999) 23 + S Schalock et al (2000) 19 + S Hensel (2001) 41 + S Hatton and Ager (2002) 42 + S Hensel et al (2002) 24 + S Cummins (1993) 17 + S/P Stancliffe (1999) 34 + S/P Schwartz and Rabinovitz (2003) 20 + S/P …”

“…QoL assessment has frequently been simplified by providing pictorial representations of response categories or of analogue scales (ranging from a very happy to a very sad face). [17][18][19][20] Pictures engage children's interest and increase their understanding, and, thus, may help to obtain more meaningful responses. There is evidence that children as young as 4 years of age can provide reliable self-report data using such devices.…”