1 / 5

“Quality of life” umbrella often refers to self-reports of

“Quality of life” umbrella often refers to self-reports of . Symptoms Functional status Perceptions Opportunities. associated with disease and treatment. Alternative Concepts or Different Concepts?. Health Status : death, disease, disability, discomfort, dissatisfaction (5 D’s)

chandra
Download Presentation

“Quality of life” umbrella often refers to self-reports of

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. “Quality of life” umbrella often refers to self-reports of • Symptoms • Functional status • Perceptions • Opportunities associated with disease and treatment

  2. Alternative Concepts or Different Concepts? • Health Status: death, disease, disability, discomfort, dissatisfaction (5 D’s) • Functional Status: performance of social roles and activities • Well-Being: wellness, feelings • Quality of life: safe environment, adequate housing, guaranteed income, respect, love, freedom, spirituality, meaning and purpose • Health-related quality of life: those aspects of quality of life attributed to health and the importance of health

  3. Concepts Intertwined • Most aspects of life involved in life-threatening illness and some chronic illnesses • Patients and clinicians use language that mixes concepts, e.g. “getting up at night to urinate” • Symptoms (G. symptoma) may be mixed with signs (L. signum) as subjective phenoma that may or may not be seen, heard, or measured

  4. Symptoms and QoL • Symptoms sometimes confounded with function and perceived quality of life in measurement • Symptoms can be viewed as related to but separated from function and perceptions • Symptoms important to patients and clinicians in diagnosis and evaluating treatment effectiveness

  5. Toward Conceptual Clarity • Health status and quality of life are different and useful in distinguishing proximal and distal impacts of treatment • Symptoms, functional status and perceptions often called QoL, can be highly related, but are not equal • Best chance of sorting out relationships is to label carefully and evaluate separately

More Related