Quality of life in primary school children: The Health Oriented Pedagogical Project (HOPP).

Aims: The primary aim of the present study was to evaluate the association between parents' level of education, measurements of physical attributes, and quality of life in a general sample of primary school children.

Methods: The children's and the parents' versions of the Inventory of Life Quality in Children and Adolescents (ILC) were used to measure health-related quality of life (QOL) in 2140 school children (response rate 93%) and 1639 parents (response rate 71%) recruited from nine primary schools in Norway. A set of physical characteristics were also measured in the children: body mass index (BMI), waist circumference, average daily minutes of physical activity, aerobic fitness, and handgrip strength.

Cancer and depression: A comparison of cancer victims with the general population, findings from the European Social Survey 2014.

An increasing number of people in Europe are living with cancer, either as an active disease or as a past experience. Depressive symptoms may impair quality of life in cancer patients and may constitute increased risks for disability, as well as being a risk factor for increased mortality. Our study compared self-reported symptoms of depression in people who currently or previously have experienced cancer with self-reported symptoms of depression in the general population.

Quality of life and living with cancer: findings from the European social survey (2014) special module on the social determinants of health.

Background: This study is a comparison of quality of life (QOL) of current and previous cancer victims with people who never had experienced cancer in samples from the general population from the 19 countries in the European Social Survey (ESS) 2014.

Methods: The study was based on the ESS 2014 with representative samples from 19 countries. QOL was measured by combining two questions on happiness and life satisfaction into a QOL scale.

War Experiences and General Health Among People in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo.

War experiences may have an extensive impact on the health status of the exposed populations. This population-based study aimed to examine the relationship between war experiences and self-reported general health in representative sample surveys from Bosnia-Herzegovina (n = 3,313) and Kosovo (n = 1,000). Data were collected with face-to-face interviews fielded in the winter of 2003-2004.

The impact of work culture on quality of care in nursing homes--a review study.

Aim: The main aim of this review study was to identify which factors that characterise the relationship between work culture and quality of care in nursing homes.

Method: This review study was structured through systematic search methods to identify articles that describe the relationship between work culture and quality of care in nursing homes. The database search yielded 14510 hits.