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Stoma-QOL (Stoma-QOL)

	Author(s)
Juul Kristian Prieto Luis Thorsen Hanne

Purpose

Pathology:

Surgical Procedures, Operative

[ - Colostomy (a surgical incision (cut) into the colon (large intestine) to create an artificial opening or "stoma" to the exterior of the abdomen)
- Ileostomy (a similar surgical incision (cut) into the ileum (smalle intestines) to create an artificial opening or "stoma" to the exterior of the abdomen) ]

Disease:

Stomas

[ Stoma surgery may be used to treat many primary conditions including colon cancer, Crohn's disease, intestinal obstruction, birth defects, and diverticulitis ]

Objective:

To measure aspects of quality of life important to stoma patients and potentially to improve with ostomy appliances

Population:

Adolescent
Adult

Characteristics

Type of instrument:

Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)

Mode of administration:

Self-administered
Telephone-administered

Number of items:

Existence of database:

Time recall:

At the moment

Language(s)

Original language:

English for the UK

List of existing translations:

(the translations may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process. Please check status of translations with Mapi Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors)

Czech	German	Japanese	Portuguese
Danish	Hungarian	Korean	Slovak
Dutch	Icelandic	Norwegian	Spanish
French	Italian	Polish	Swedish

Last update: June 2010
Last update in collaboration with the author: October 2008