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Measuring quality of life in opioid-dependent people: a systematic review of assessment instruments.
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- Quality of life whilst ageing in opioid agonist treatment: a narrative analysis.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Heart Rate Variability for Supplementing Withdrawal Assessment in Patients with Opioid Dependence: An Exploratory Study.Indian journal of psychological medicine · 2024Article
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- Sociodemographic and Clinical Characteristics Associated with Improvements in Quality of Life for Participants with Opioid Use Disorder.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Quality of Life and Opioid Use Motives: Direct and Indirect Associations with Risky Opioid Use in a Community Sample of Adults.Substance use & misuse · 2022Article
- Quality of life during a randomized trial of a therapeutic-workplace intervention for opioid use disorder: Web-based mobile assessments reveal effects of drug abstinence and access to paid work.Drug and alcohol dependence reports · 2021Article
- Prospective Study on Factors Associated with Referral of Patients with Opioid Maintenance Therapy from Specialized Addictive Disorders Centers to Primary Care.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Observational
- Health-related quality of life of long-term patients receiving opioid agonist therapy: a nested prospective cohort study in Norway.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2020Article
- Confirming the factor structure of a generic quality of life instrument among pre-treatment substance use disorder patients.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2019Article
- Performance of the WHOQOL-BREF among Norwegian substance use disorder patients.BMC medical research methodology · 2019Article
- Effectiveness of Mindfulness-based Relapse Prevention on Quality of Life and Craving in Methadone-treated Patients: A Randomized Clinical Trial.Addiction & health · 2018Article
- Health Related Quality of Life in Individuals Transferred from a Needle Exchange Program and Starting Opioid Agonist Treatment.Journal of addiction · 2018Article
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Abstract
purposeOpioid dependence is a chronic relapsing disorder. Despite increasing research on quality of life (QOL) in people with opioid dependence, little attention has been paid to the instruments used. This systematic review examines the suitability of QOL instruments for use in opioid-dependent populations and the instruments' quality.
methodsA systematic search was performed in the databases Medline, PsycInfo, The Cochrane Library, and CINAHL. Articles were eligible if they assessed QOL of opioid-dependent populations using a validated QOL instrument. Item content relevance to opioid-dependent people was evaluated by means of content analysis, and instrument properties were assessed using minimum standards for patient-reported outcome measures.
resultsEighty-nine articles were retrieved, yielding sixteen QOL instruments, of which ten were assessed in this review. Of the ten instruments, six were disease specific, but none for opioid dependence. Two instruments had good item content relevance. The conceptual and measurement model were described in seven instruments. Four instruments were developed with input from the respective target population. Eight instruments had low respondent and administrator burden. Psychometric properties were either not assessed in opioid-dependent populations or were inconclusive or moderate.
conclusionsNo instrument scored perfectly on both the content and properties. The limited suitability of instruments for opioid-dependent people hinders accurate and sensitive measurement of QOL in this population. Future research is in need of an opioid dependence-specific QOL instrument to measure the true impact of the disease on people's lives and to evaluate treatment-related services.
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