title: [Quality of life with genital herpes].
abstract: Health related quality of life (HRQOL) indicators take into account the personal perception of health, and are proposed as an alternative for efficacy indicators in medical and therapeutic decision-making. They provide, after elaboration and validation of a questionnaire, a standardized assessment of the health status perception. The authors had for aim to review of a variety of HRQOL instruments developed for patients presenting with genital herpes infection. Generic instruments are designed to be applicable in general population and disease-targeted instrument are potentially more sensitive to the characteristics of a specific population. Among HRQOL instruments, we found 4 specific disease-targeted questionnaires developed for patients presenting with genital herpes infection: Genital herpes questionnaire, Herpes research center questionnaire, quality of life with herpes (QLH) scale, and recurrent genital herpes quality of life (RGHQoL).
authors.affiliation: Institut Alfred-Fournier, 75014, Paris, France. haliouab@yahoo.fr
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Halioua
authors.forename: J-M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Bohbot
mesh_terms: D001294:Attitude to Health; D005260:Female; D005602:France; D006306:Health Surveys; D006558:Herpes Genitalis / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015337:Multicenter Studies as Topic; D011788:Quality of Life; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014481:United States