The impact of New Families home visiting program on first-time mothers' quality of life and its association with social support: a non-randomized controlled study.

Background: The transition to motherhood is characterized by physical, psychological, social, and relational changes. Quality of life (QoL) changes substantially during this transition. Higher QoL is associated with social support, essential for coping with the challenges and changes of becoming a mother.

Quality of life in Norwegian pregnant women and men with pregnant partners, and association with perception of sleep and depressive symptoms: a cross-sectional study.

Background: Pregnant women and men with pregnant partners experience variations in quality of life (QoL) during pregnancy, a period characterized by physical, psychological, and social changes. Pregnancy is associated with reduced QoL, depressive symptoms, and sleep problems. This study aimed to: (1) determine whether Norwegian pregnant women and men with pregnant partners differed in QoL levels in the third trimester of pregnancy; (2) determine whether the relationship between perception of sleep and QoL is moderated by depressive symptoms, when analyzed separately in pregnant women and men with pregnant partners; and (3) determine whether selected possible predictive factors were associated with QoL when stratified by level of depressive symptoms, in pregnant women and men with pregnant partners separately.

Quality of Life instruments and their psychometric properties for use in parents during pregnancy and the postpartum period: a systematic scoping review.

Purpose: To identify instruments used to measure parents' Quality of Life (QoL) during pregnancy and the postpartum period, and to describe their characteristics and psychometric properties.

Methods: For this scoping review we conducted systematic literature searches in MEDLINE, EMBASE, PsychINFO, CINAHL and HaPI in mid-December 2020, to identify studies evaluating psychometric properties. The COnsensus-based Standards for the selection of health Measurement INstruments (COSMIN) were used to define and categorize psychometric properties.

Symptom Clusters From Dialysis to Renal Transplantation: A Five-Year Longitudinal Study.

Context: Patients on dialysis experience multiple concurrent and often related symptoms defined as symptom clusters. Renal transplantation (RTX) is thought to reduce symptom experience and improve health-related quality of life. No longitudinal study has assessed symptoms and symptom clusters in patients in the transition from dialysis to RTX.

From dialysis to transplantation: a 5-year longitudinal study on self-reported quality of life.

Background: Little is known how health related quality of life (HRQOL) change in the transition from dialysis to renal transplantation (RTX). Longitudinal data addressing the patient-related outcomes are scarce, and particularly data regarding kidney-specific HRQOL are lacking. Thus, the aim of the current study was to assess HRQOL in patients followed from dialysis to RTX.

Symptom clusters predict mortality among dialysis patients in Norway: a prospective observational cohort study.

Context: Patients with end-stage renal disease on dialysis have reduced survival rates compared with the general population. Symptoms are frequent in dialysis patients, and a symptom cluster is defined as two or more related co-occurring symptoms.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore the associations between symptom clusters and mortality in dialysis patients.

Symptom clusters in patients on dialysis and their association with quality-of-life outcomes.

Background: Patients who are on dialysis report multiple symptoms. The aim of the study was to explore and identify symptom clusters (co-occurring symptoms) in patients on dialysis and their possible associations with depressive symptoms and health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) outcomes.

Methods: In a cross-sectional study of 301 prevalent patients on dialysis, physical symptoms, depressive symptoms and HRQOL were assessed using the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Kidney Disease and Quality-of-Life-Short Form version 1.

Self-perceived quality of sleep and mortality in Norwegian dialysis patients.

Sleep complaints are prevalent and associated with poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL), depression and possibly mortality in dialysis patients. This study aimed to explore possible associations between sleep quality, daytime sleepiness and mortality in dialysis patients. In this study, 301 dialysis patients were followed up to 4.

Sleep complaints, depression and quality of life in Norwegian dialysis patients.

Background: This study explores sleep problems in dialysis patients and the associations to health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and depression. A comparison between different validated sleep questionnaires was done in order to find an appropriate diagnostic tool in clinical practice.

Methods: In a cross-sectional study of 301 prevalent dialysis patients, sleep problems were elaborated with Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS).