title: [Quality of life assessment in therapeutic trials. Conceptual aspects and presentation of a questionnaire].
abstract: The importance of assessing the quality of life is more and more emphasized when therapeutic effects are to be studied. However, if its theoretical bases appeared as rather well established, they are not yet effectively translated into the presently available instruments: there is not yet any "gold exchange standard" in this field. This fact is the result of the difficulty of this translation and of the medical tendency to reduce the assessment of the quality of life to the assessment of the health. The second part of this paper is thus devoted to the presentation of a new instrument ("PQVS" in french, or "QLPI" for "Quality of Life Profile Inventory"). It was devised for applying the theoretical bases of the study of the quality of life. It thus allows for the assessment: 1) of the quality of the global life, 2) of the quality of what is experienced in several dimensions of the life, and 3) of the individual structure of the quality of life.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gérin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Dazord
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Boissel
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Hanauer
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Moleur
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chauvin
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic / Q000295:instrumentation; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013673:Technology Assessment, Biomedical
vernacular_title: L'évaluation de la qualité de la vie dans les essais thérapeutiques. Aspects conceptuels et présentation d'un questionnaire.