Quality of Life Theory I. The IQOL Theory: An Integrative Theory of the Global Quality of Life Concept

Ventegodt, Søren; Merrick, Joav; Andersen, Niels Jørgen

doi:10.1100/tsw.2003.82

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“…According to Ventegodt et al [1], the quality of life is how good a life each individual feels he or she has. Each individual personally evaluates how he or she views things and his or her feelings and notions.…”

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Using Health Utility Index (HUI) for Measuring the Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) Among Individuals with Chronic Diseases

Choi

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The Scientific World JOURNAL

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Quality of life is an important indicator in assessing the burden of disease, especially for chronic conditions. The Health Utilities Index (HUI) is a recently developed system for measuring the overall health status and health-related quality of life (HRQL) of individuals, clinical groups, and general populations.Using the HUI (constructed based on eight attributes: vision, hearing, speech, mobility, dexterity, cognition, emotion, and pain/discomfort) to measure the HRQL for chronic disease patients and to detect possible associations between HUI system and various chronic conditions, this study provides information to improve the management of chronic diseases.This study is of interest to data analysts, policy makers, and public health practitioners involved in descriptive clinical studies, clinical trials, program evaluation, population health planning, and assessments.Based on the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS) for 2000-01, the HUI was used to measure the quality of life for individuals living with various chronic conditions (Alzheimer/other dementia, effects of stroke, urinary incontinence, arthritis/rheumatism, bowel disorder, cataracts, back problems, stomach/intestinal ulcers, emphysema/COPD, chronic bronchitis, epilepsy, heart disease, diabetes, migraine headaches, glaucoma, asthma, fibromyalgia, cancers, high blood pressure, multiple sclerosis, thyroid condition, and other remaining chronic diseases). Logistic Regression Model was employed to estimate the associations between the overall HUI scores and various chronic conditions. The HUI scores ranged from 0.00 (corresponding to a state close to death) to 1.00 (corresponding to perfect health); negative scores reflect health states considered worse than death.The mean HUI score by sex and age group indicated the typical quality of life for persons with various chronic conditions. Logistic Regression results showed a strong relationship between low HUI scores (≤ 0.5 and 0.06-1.0) and certain chronic conditions. Age-and sex-adjusted Odds Ratio (OR) and p values showed an effect among individuals diagnosed with each chronic disease on the overall HUI score. Results of this study *Corresponding author. ©2004 with author.746 Mo et al.: Health Utility Index (HUI) TheScientificWorldJOURNAL (2004) 4, 746-757 showed that arthritis/rheumatism, heart disease, high blood pressure, cataracts, and diabetes had a severe impact on HRQL. Urinary incontinence, Alzheimer/other dementia, effects of stroke, cancers, thyroid condition, and back problems have a moderate impact. Food allergy, allergy other than food, asthma, migraine headaches, and other remaining chronic diseases have a relatively mild effect.It is concluded that major chronic diseases with significant health burden were associated with poor HRQL. The HUI scores facilitate the measurement and interpretation of results of health burden and the HRQL for individuals with chronic diseases and can be useful for development of strategies for the prevention and control of chronic diseases.

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“…Each individual personally evaluates how he or she views things and his or her feelings and notions. Whether an individual is content with life and happy are aspects that reflect the subjective quality of life [1].…”

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“…Meaningfulness of life and order and harmony in the most intimate aspects are related to human biological information system. We also need to assume a core of abstract meaning in life, order and harmony in the biological systems that are unspeakable and non-quantifiable, so that the core objective and subjective aspects are the same (Ventegodt, Merrick, and Anderson, 2003). Maslow (1945;quoted from Eslami, 2005) pyramid of needs stated that the level of physiological needs, safety, belongingness and affection, respect and self-actualization have been combined.…”

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Predicting Life Satisfaction Based on Self-Efficacy and Social Support

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Taghvaei²

2016

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This study aims to predict the correlation between life satisfaction and self-efficacy and social support. The sample consists of 150 female teachers of high school in Qom who were selected by multisectional random sampling. All participants were studied by three tests of Diner life satisfaction, sharer selfefficacy, and Philips social support. The findings showed that there is a significant correlation between life satisfaction, self-efficacy, and social support. The correlation coefficients are respectively 0.361 and 0.469 (p<0.05). The results also indicate that life satisfaction can be predicted by subscales of social support, social support by family, friends, and others. Keywords: life satisfaction, self-efficacy, social support STATEMENT OF PROBLEMHappy experience and life satisfaction are the ultimate goal of people's purpose. Therefore, all people are trying to achieve it during their life (Haebner, 2000).Life satisfaction is one of the oldest and stable isuues in studies related to adults that is considered as general study of the current situation by comparing the person's willings to real access it (Bechtold, 2004).Ingelehart defines the concept of satisfaction as: life satisfaction reflects the balance between the personal wishes and his current condition. In other word, whatever the gap between the person's wishes and his current condition id high, his satisfaction would be reduced (Ingelhart, 1994 cited in Zaki, 2007.However life satisfaction depends on personal conditions, the social factors are so effective in increasing and reducing it. The society creates the conditions that can direct the people to achieve the personal wishes and goals, in other hand, it creates a space that the person can interact and communicate with those who provides peace, security, and confidence for an appropriate life. The general life satisfaction is composed of the personal and social conditions and in fact, it is a sign of positive attitudes toward the world and the environment where he lives in.

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“…To do this, it is important to develop as a person into what is known as the natural condition, a condition where the person know himself and uses all his efforts to achieve what is most important for him. The holistic process theory of healing [12,13,14,15] and the related quality of life theories [16,17,18] state that the return to the natural state of being is possible whenever the person gets the resources needed for existential healing. The resources needed are according to the theory of "holding" in the dimensions awareness, respect, care, acknowledgment, and acceptance with support and processing in the dimensions feeling, understanding, and letting go of negative attitudes and beliefs.…”

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Clinical Holistic Medicine: Treatment of Physical Health Problems Without a Known Cause, Exemplified by Hypertension and Tinnitus

Ventegodt

Morad

Kandel

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In the medical clinic, we often face health problems that have no known cause, even after a thorough examination. Biomedicine is often unable to find a cure in these situations, leaving the problem unsolved or leaving the patient on a palliative pharmaceutical cure, which is often for a lifetime. In this case, consciousness-based, holistic medicine could be an alternative. Using the theories and tools of holistic medicine wisely, the physician can often provide treatment for the patient.The toolbox of holistic medicine makes it possible to work on everybody because there is always something related to the patients quality of life that can be improved: his love, his purpose of life, and the way he uses his talents, his mind, his feelings, his body, and his sexuality. For treatment in holistic medicine, it really does not matter as much that you cannot give the patient a precise medical diagnosis, because you can always work on the patient with the intention of healing his or her whole life and existence.It is quite a paradox that many of these diseases can be understood on the level of the individual patient at the same moment that the patient is cured; many of these diseases seem to be clearly related to the repression of the individual character, as stressed already by Hippocrates. So if you simply start working with the patient to help him confront old existential pain and coach him in his personal development of his life by intensifying its meaning and purpose, the symptoms very often simply disappear.The toolbox of holistic medicine also seems relevant to even difficult, neurotic, psychosomatic, and hypochondriac patients. Believing in the treatment and not giving up on your patient, and moving forward in the treatment with the patient himself is the ultimate goal, even when you yourself do not understand the mechanism fully. This will force you to develop your own competence and is, in essence, what makes an outstanding holistic physician.

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Quality of Life Theory I. The IQOL Theory: An Integrative Theory of the Global Quality of Life Concept

Cited by 152 publications

References 13 publications

Using Health Utility Index (HUI) for Measuring the Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) Among Individuals with Chronic Diseases

Using Health Utility Index (HUI) for Measuring the Impact on Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQL) Among Individuals with Chronic Diseases

Predicting Life Satisfaction Based on Self-Efficacy and Social Support

Clinical Holistic Medicine: Treatment of Physical Health Problems Without a Known Cause, Exemplified by Hypertension and Tinnitus

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