Suzanne M Skevington
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 206008 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Suzanne M Skevington |
| NOMBRES | Suzanne M |
| APELLIDO | Skevington |
| FIRMA | SKEVINGTON S M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Bath |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6861-5018 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 147 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1981 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Human–nature connectedness and sustainability across lifetimes
To achieve sustainable targets, international panels call for a transformative change in human–nature interactions to foster human well‐being and promote pro‐environmental behaviour. The extent to which people considered themselves as part of nature—known as human–nature connectedness—has been shown to be a key societal trait for achieving such a transformative change. Human–nature connectedness is linked to improved human welfare and actions for…
Does quality of life feedback promote seeking help for undiagnosed cancer
This early cancer research offers practical and theoretical implications for QoL interventions in deprived communities
Enhancing the multi-dimensional assessment of quality of life
The WHOQOL-Combi offers a contemporary, comprehensive, integrated, multi-dimensional subjective QoL instrument with enhanced evaluations of social, spiritual, psychological and physical QoL. Acceptable to older people, future research should evaluate younger age groups and other cultures
Impact of Dialysis on the Dyadic Relationship Between Male Patients and Their Female Partners
The objective of this study was to explore the impact of three early phases of renal dialysis, namely pre-dialysis, starting dialysis, and establishing dialysis, on dyadic relationships. Twenty UK-based dyads (20 male patients and their female partners) participated in semi-structured interviews and discussed the effects of dialysis on themselves and their relationship. Dyadic thematic analysis, facilitated by dyadic-level charting, integrated pa…
Community asset participation and social medicine increases qualities of life
Policies to improve QoL in later life should be designed not just to promote community assets, but also maintain participation once initiated
Undiagnosed cancer symptoms in the community
QoL is poorer for those with potential cancer symptoms, before they first seek advice from primary care. Poorer physical QoL is associated with stronger intentions to make a GP appointment. An implication for longer term health is that if public awareness about the impact of symptoms on QoL was raised, this could provide an impetus to seek help
What Do U.K. Orthopedic Surgery Patients Think About PROMs? Evaluating the Evaluation and Explaining Missing Data
The NHS routinely evaluates the quality of life of patients receiving hip or knee replacement surgery using patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs), but some hospital completion rates are only 30%, restricting data usefulness. Statistics limit insights into how and why data are missing, so qualitative methods were used to explore this issue. Observation periods preceded semistructured interviews with 34 preoperative patients attending an orthop…
Effect of health literacy on the quality of life of older patients with long-term conditions
This is the largest, most complete assessment of the effects of health literacy on QoL in older adults with LTCs. Low health literacy is an independent indicator of poor QoL older patients with LTCs. Interventions to improve health literacy in older people with LTCs are encouraged by these findings
How is subjective well-being related to quality of life? Do we need two concepts and both measures
Subjective well-being (SWB) and subjective quality of life (QoL) are key concepts describing experience, capacities, states, behaviours, appraisals, and emotional reactions to circumstances. Used widely in public discourse, policy, and research, their theoretical and empirical relations remain little explored. The present research aimed to develop an integrated model of SWB and QoL through empirically testing its overlapping and exclusive dimensi…
Adjusting for cross-cultural differences in computer-adaptive tests of quality of life
Assessing differential item functioning using item response theory can identify measurement invariance between cultures which, if uncontrolled, may undermine accurate comparisons in computer-adaptive testing assessments of QoL. We demonstrate how compensating for DIF using item anchoring allowed data from all four countries to be compared on a common metric, thus facilitating assessments which were both sensitive to cultural nuance and comparable…
Cross Cultural Application of the WHOQOL-SRPB in the Chinese Community with Diverse Spiritual Affiliations
Evaluating a new methodology for providing individualized feedback in healthcare on quality of life and its importance, using the WHOQOL-BREF in a community population
Expecting a good quality of life in health
Background and objectives Fulfilling patient expectations is central to defining a good quality of life (QoL) in health. The WHOQOL‐BREF was developed using novel, person‐centred methods and is a generic patient‐reported outcomes measure (PROM). However, without robust psychometric performance, PROMs cannot be relied upon to assess individuals. This study investigated the WHOQOL‐BREF (UK), with this use in mind. Design Cross sectional with nested…
Is quality of life poorer for older adults with HIV/Aids? International evidence using the WHOQOL-HIV
Increasingly older adults are being diagnosed with HIV/AIDS. In 2002, UNAIDS indicated that 13 aspects of quality of life (QoL) were poorer for older adults, but only sparse, inconsistent cross-cultural evidence is available. This statement was investigated using a reliable, valid measure (the WHOQOL-HIV) distributed in nine cultures (eight countries). HIV positive and well adults (n = 2089) were assessed across 30 QoL facets; 403 were 40+ years.…
Introducing the WHOQOL-SRPB BREF
Does the subjective quality of life of children with specific learning disabilities (SpLD) agree with their parents’ proxy reports
Predicting quality of life for people living with HIV
The need for a validated quality of life (QOL) model focussing on people living with HIV/AIDS has led to an international re-evaluation and extension of the Chronic Illness Quality of Life model using complex latent modelling techniques. After reoperationalising six model variables and including independence and sex-life, the WHOQOL-HIV was administered to 1281 people with asymptomatic-HIV (42%), symptomatic-HIV (40%) or AIDS (18%; 34 years; 62% …
An International Quality of Life Instrument to Assess Wellbeing in Adults Who are HIV-Positive
The importance of facets of quality of life to older adults
Continence specialists use of quality of life information in routine practice
The effects of exercise interventions on quality of life in clinical and healthy populations; a meta-analysis
Exploring response shift in the quality of life of healthy adolescents over 1 year
Conceptualising dimensions of quality of life in poverty
Are existing health‐related quality of life (QoL) measures adequate for use in poverty? Focus groups of development researcher‐practitioners were convened to discuss QoL in the low–middle‐income countries of Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand. Newly elicited themes were mapped onto the QoL concept consisting of 25 original facets from the WHOQOL‐100, plus 24 additional facets derived from five subsequent WHOQOL modules (49 facets) organized …
Changes in quality of life and psychological need satisfaction following the transition to secondary school
BackgroundQuality of life (QoL) is an important area for research during adolescence, due to its associations with (1) physical and mental health and (2) the emergence of health risk behaviours. A time that poses a particular threat to QoL is the transition from primary to secondary school.AimsThis study aimed to investigate changes in QoL immediately following the transition to secondary school. Using Self-Determination Theory (SDT) as a concept…
On Subjective Well-being and Quality of Life
We integrate the multi-disciplinary fields of quality of life (QoL) and well-being (WB) and appraise the impacts of health factors. Theoretical and methodological limitations are discussed and new conceptual and technical advances identified, These are informed by cross-cultural and community perspectives. Following a definitional review, social inequalities, and links with happiness are examined. Demographic, experiential and personal factors ar…
A cross-cultural study of spirituality, religion, and personal beliefs as components of quality of life
On Subjective Well-being and Quality of Life
We integrate the multi-disciplinary fields of quality of life (QoL) and well-being (WB) and appraise the impacts of health factors. Theoretical and methodological limitations are discussed and new conceptual and technical advances identified, These are informed by cross-cultural and community perspectives. Following a definitional review, social inequalities, and links with happiness are examined. Demographic, experiential and personal factors ar…
Putting the Q into quality of life; the identification of subjective constructions of health-related quality of life using Q methodology
How is subjective well-being related to quality of life? Do we need two concepts and both measures
Subjective well-being (SWB) and subjective quality of life (QoL) are key concepts describing experience, capacities, states, behaviours, appraisals, and emotional reactions to circumstances. Used widely in public discourse, policy, and research, their theoretical and empirical relations remain little explored. The present research aimed to develop an integrated model of SWB and QoL through empirically testing its overlapping and exclusive dimensi…
Intergroup relations and nursing
The applicability of Tajfel's social identity theory of intergroup relations was tested within a field situation of nursing, where high and low status trainee nursing groups are undergoing social change in status relations through a merger. The status relations of the two groups were assessed by examining advantages, disadvantages and subjective characteristics attributed to the groups. Close contact between groups may account for the unexpected …
Selecting national items for the WHOQOL
Preliminary development of the World Health Organsiation's Quality of Life HIV instrument (WHOQOL-HIV)
Changes in quality of life and psychological need satisfaction following the transition to secondary school
BackgroundQuality of life (QoL) is an important area for research during adolescence, due to its associations with (1) physical and mental health and (2) the emergence of health risk behaviours. A time that poses a particular threat to QoL is the transition from primary to secondary school.AimsThis study aimed to investigate changes in QoL immediately following the transition to secondary school. Using Self-Determination Theory (SDT) as a concept…
Predicting young children's quality of life
Community asset participation and social medicine increases qualities of life
Policies to improve QoL in later life should be designed not just to promote community assets, but also maintain participation once initiated
Cross Cultural Application of the WHOQOL-SRPB in the Chinese Community with Diverse Spiritual Affiliations
The effects of exercise interventions on quality of life in clinical and healthy populations; a meta-analysis
Conceptualising dimensions of quality of life in poverty
Are existing health‐related quality of life (QoL) measures adequate for use in poverty? Focus groups of development researcher‐practitioners were convened to discuss QoL in the low–middle‐income countries of Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand. Newly elicited themes were mapped onto the QoL concept consisting of 25 original facets from the WHOQOL‐100, plus 24 additional facets derived from five subsequent WHOQOL modules (49 facets) organized …
Designing response scales for cross‐cultural use in health care
Designing response scales for use in cross‐cultural situations presents several semantic and conceptual challenges. Here we report response scales designed in the UK, using a method developed collaboratively by the WHOQOL Group to tackle some of these issues. The response scales were generated for use with items established for a British version of a new cross‐cultural quality of life measure for health and health care‐the UK WHOQOL. A quota samp…
Intergroup relations and nursing
The applicability of Tajfel's social identity theory of intergroup relations was tested within a field situation of nursing, where high and low status trainee nursing groups are undergoing social change in status relations through a merger. The status relations of the two groups were assessed by examining advantages, disadvantages and subjective characteristics attributed to the groups. Close contact between groups may account for the unexpected …
Psychological aspects of pain in rheumatoid arthritis
Self‐esteem and perception of attractiveness
During an investigation into the self‐esteem of early rheumatoid patients and controls matched individually by age and sex, it was found that at their first visit to out‐patients, patients had lower self‐esteem. The items of low self‐esteem showed a similarity with features of the rheumatoid personality. An observation that the word attractive in the Carlson Adjective Checklist was rarely used by both groups, and that items at the beginning and e…
Designing response scales for cross‐cultural use in health care
Designing response scales for use in cross‐cultural situations presents several semantic and conceptual challenges. Here we report response scales designed in the UK, using a method developed collaboratively by the WHOQOL Group to tackle some of these issues. The response scales were generated for use with items established for a British version of a new cross‐cultural quality of life measure for health and health care‐the UK WHOQOL. A quota samp…
Selecting national items for the WHOQOL
Advancing cross-cultural research on quality of life
Initial steps to developing the World Health Organization's Quality of Life Instrument (WHOQOL) module for international assessment in HIV/Aids
This paper reports on the three initial steps taken to develop the World Health Organization's Quality of Life instrument (WHOQOL) module for assessment of persons living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). First, a consultation of international experts was convened to review the suitability of the generic WHOQOL-100 for assessment of PLWHA. The experts proposed additional facets that are specific to the lives of PLWHA. Second, 42 focus groups (N = 235) were …
Preliminary development of the World Health Organsiation's Quality of Life HIV instrument (WHOQOL-HIV)
Predicting young children's quality of life
Putting the Q into quality of life; the identification of subjective constructions of health-related quality of life using Q methodology
The World Health Organization's WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment
Can we identify the poorest quality of life? Assessing the importance of quality of life using the WHOQOL-100
Development of a Pain and Discomfort Module for Use with the WHOQOL-100
How much do doctors use quality of life information in primary care? Testing the Trans-Theoretical Model of behaviour change
Assessing children's quality of life in health and social services
The measurement of children's quality of life has an important role to play in improving their experience of health and social services, and in promoting a child‐centred approach to service provision. This article provides a rationale for both the development of robust quality of life measures specifically for children and also the use of these measures in assessing the effectiveness of treatments and policy changes. It highlights recent advances…
A cross-cultural study of spirituality, religion, and personal beliefs as components of quality of life
Exploring response shift in the quality of life of healthy adolescents over 1 year
Conceptualising dimensions of quality of life in poverty
Are existing health‐related quality of life (QoL) measures adequate for use in poverty? Focus groups of development researcher‐practitioners were convened to discuss QoL in the low–middle‐income countries of Ethiopia, Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand. Newly elicited themes were mapped onto the QoL concept consisting of 25 original facets from the WHOQOL‐100, plus 24 additional facets derived from five subsequent WHOQOL modules (49 facets) organized …
Changes in quality of life and psychological need satisfaction following the transition to secondary school
BackgroundQuality of life (QoL) is an important area for research during adolescence, due to its associations with (1) physical and mental health and (2) the emergence of health risk behaviours. A time that poses a particular threat to QoL is the transition from primary to secondary school.AimsThis study aimed to investigate changes in QoL immediately following the transition to secondary school. Using Self-Determination Theory (SDT) as a concept…
On Subjective Well-being and Quality of Life
We integrate the multi-disciplinary fields of quality of life (QoL) and well-being (WB) and appraise the impacts of health factors. Theoretical and methodological limitations are discussed and new conceptual and technical advances identified, These are informed by cross-cultural and community perspectives. Following a definitional review, social inequalities, and links with happiness are examined. Demographic, experiential and personal factors ar…
Continence specialists use of quality of life information in routine practice
The effects of exercise interventions on quality of life in clinical and healthy populations; a meta-analysis
Predicting quality of life for people living with HIV
The need for a validated quality of life (QOL) model focussing on people living with HIV/AIDS has led to an international re-evaluation and extension of the Chronic Illness Quality of Life model using complex latent modelling techniques. After reoperationalising six model variables and including independence and sex-life, the WHOQOL-HIV was administered to 1281 people with asymptomatic-HIV (42%), symptomatic-HIV (40%) or AIDS (18%; 34 years; 62% …
An International Quality of Life Instrument to Assess Wellbeing in Adults Who are HIV-Positive
The importance of facets of quality of life to older adults
Psychology (36 obras) · Medicine (32 obras) · Quality of life (healthcare (28 obras) · Gerontology (22 obras) · Social Psychology (18 obras) · Nursing (15 obras) · Clinical Psychology (13 obras) · Public health (13 obras) · Sociology (12 obras) · Clinical Psychology (10 obras)