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3,241 questions · 3,336 findings · 1,340 reviews

No studies found 1,581 · 47.4%GRADE not reported 352 · 10.6%Very low 512 · 15.3%Low 509 · 15.3%Moderate 316 · 9.5%High 66 · 2%

Intervention not reported

Health‐related quality of life (cough‐specific) Leicester Cough Questionnaire Scale from 0 to 133; higher score indicates better HRQoL. Contains 19 questions from 3 domains on a Likert scale · individuals with stable bronchiectasis
1 finding from 1 review

Intervention not reported

Health‐related quality of life (CHQ (8 subscores); scale 0 to 100, where 0 indicates the worst possible health state and 100 the best possible health state)c Physical functioning Change in health · children and adolescents with obesity

It is very uncertain whether the intervention changes health‐related quality of life (CHQ (8 subscores); scale 0 to 100,… (very low certainty).

1 finding from 1 review

Intervention not reported

Health‐related quality of life (generic) SF‐36 (Mental Component Sumary (MCS) score) Scale from 0‐100 Higher value post intervention is favourable, indicating improvement in health‐related quality of life · people with stable COPD
1 finding from 1 review

Home fall‐hazard reduction vs control (e.g. usual activities)

QoL · older people living in the community (included trials conducting pre‐ and/or post‐hospital discharge home visits focusing on fall…

Home fall‐hazard reduction showed no clear difference in health‐related quality of life SMD was calculated from 4 studies… compared with control (e.g. usual care) (moderate certainty).

1 finding from 1 review

Assistive technology for vision improvement interventions vs usual care or attention control

Health‐related quality of life ‐ all trials Higher scores indicate improved health‐related quality of life · Older people living in the community

Assistive technology for vision improvement interventions showed no clear difference in health‐related quality of life 1 trial of single‐lens glasses… compared with usual care or attention control (low certainty).

1 finding from 1 review

Advance care planning vs usual care

Quality of communication Measured on Quality of Patient‐Clinician Communication About End‐of‐Life Care. Higher score indicates high satisfaction with the quality of communication Assessed after intervention · people with heart failure with or without their surrogate decision‐makers/carers
1 finding from 1 review

Intervention not reported

Health‐related quality of life (generic) SF‐36 (Physical Component Summary (PCS) score) Scale from 0‐100 Higher value post intervention is favourable, indicating improvement in health‐related quality of life · people with stable COPD
1 finding from 1 review

Conventional occlusion vs atropine penalization

Quality of life (different measures and time points reported in the included studies) Assessed at different time points (17 weeks or 6 months) by patient preference or the Amblyopia Treatment Index questionnaire. · Participants of any age with either unilateral strabismic, anisometropic, or mixed (strabismic‐refractive) amblyopia; deprivation…
1 finding from 1 review

Intervention not reported

PC‐QOL mean score at 6 weeks PC‐QOL is a 27‐item questionnaire. Each question has a 7‐point score ranging from 1 (worst quality of life) to 7 (best quality of life). Scores for each item were added and the average taken · children with chronic cough of unknown origin lasting longer than 4 weeks

The intervention probably leads to higher PC‐QOL mean score at 6 weeks PC‐QOL is a 27‐item questionnaire. Each… (moderate certainty).

1 finding from 1 review

Intravenous soya oil‐derived (n‐6) fatty acid‐based lipid emulsion vs intravenous fish oil‐derived (n‐3) fatty acid‐based lipid emulsion

Improvement in participant satisfaction measures and quality of life assessment measures Overall subjective score on 5 items (appearance of lesions, impairment of daily life, pruritus, burning, and pain) reported through figures · guttate psoriasis
1 finding from 1 review

Intervention not reported

Health‐related quality of life (respiratory specific) St George's Respiratory Questionnaire (SGRQ; total score) Scale from 0‐100 Lower value post intervention is favourable, indicating improvement in health‐related quality of life · people with stable COPD
1 finding from 1 review

Physiotherapy and occupational therapy vs placebo

Short‐term (1 week) change in quality of life scores related to communication as measured by validated communication assessments Functional Independence Measure (total). Scale from: 0 to 126. Higher scores indicate less disability · people with speech disorder resulting from hereditary ataxias
1 finding from 1 review

Intervention not reported

Primary outcome 2: participant‐ or parent‐rated family quality of life score at the end of active treatment Scale used: DFI, FDLQI. On those scales, the higher the score, the more severely the quality of life is affected Duration of · male and female patients 0 to 55 years of age with physician‐diagnosed eczema
1 finding from 1 review