Objectives: to compare the quality of life and religious-spiritual coping of palliative cancer care patients with a group of healthy participants; assess whether the perceived quality of life is associated with the ...

In the last century we have witnessed a great development in medicine. New drugs and sophisticated surgical interventions present the proposal for a long life, almost as a product available on the market. Facing death as ...

This paper integrates the empirical literature attempting to measure quality of life with different philosophical, economic and psychological approaches that shed some light on the contours of the concept. On this basis, ...

Objective: Analyze the changes in the quality of life of cardiac patients during pregnancy and after birth and study the correlations between the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and quality of life measures ...

Purpose: to evaluate the Flanagan Quality of Life Scale applied in a representative sample of urban older people population of Botucatu city, São Paulo, Brazil. Methods: a cross-sectional study was carried out with a ...