Browsing by Author "Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat"

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  • Adaptation and psychometric validation of Diabetes Health Profile (DHP-18) in patients with type 2 diabetes in Quito, Ecuador: a cross-sectional study
    Benazizi, Ikram; Bernal Soriano, Mari Carmen; Pardo Cladellas, Yolanda; Ribera Solé, Aida; Peralta Chiriboga, Alejandro Andrés, 1985-; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; Alonso Jaquete, Alfonso; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Lumbreras, Blanca; Parker, Lucy Anne (BioMed Central, 2021)
    Introduction: The Diabetes Health Profile (DHP-18), structured in three dimensions (psychological distress (PD), barriers to activity (BA) and disinhibited eating (DE)), assesses the psychological and behavioural burden ...
  • Adaptation and validation of the PEDSQL™ Oral Health Scale for toddlers in chilean population
    Atala-Acevedo, Claudia; Zaror, Carlos; Espinoza-Espinoza, Gerardo; Muñoz-Millán, Patricia; Muñoz, Sergio; Martínez-Zapata, María José; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat (BioMed Central, 2020)
    Background: The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ (PedsQL™) Oral Health Scale was developed to measure oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL). The aim of this study was to cross-culturally adapt the parent-reported ...
  • Assessing oral health-related quality of life in children and adolescents: a systematic review and standardized comparison of available instruments
    Zaror, Carlos; Pardo Cladellas, Yolanda; Espinoza-Espinoza, Gerardo; Pont Acuña, Àngels; Muñoz-Millán, Patricia; Martínez-Zapata, María José; Vilagut Saiz, Gemma, 1975-; García Forero, Carlos; Garin Boronat, Olatz, 1979-; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat (Springer, 2018)
    OBJECTIVES: To obtain a systematic and standardized evaluation of the current evidence on development process, metric properties, and administration issues of oral health-related quality of life instruments available for ...
  • Assessing quality of life in patients with prostate cancer: a systematic and standardized comparison of available instruments
    Schmidt, Stefanie, 1979-; Garin Boronat, Olatz, 1979-; Pardo, Yolanda; Valderas Martínez, José María; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Rebollo, Pablo; Rajmil Rajmil, Luis Alberto; García Forero, Carlos; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; EMPRO Group (SpringerOpen, 2014)
    Purpose: The objective was to obtain a standardized evaluation of available prostate cancer-specific quality of life instruments used in patients with early-stage disease. Methods: We carried out systematic literature ...
  • Association between single-nucleotide polymorphisms in DNA double-strand break repair genes and prostate cancer aggressiveness in the Spanish population.
    Henríquez Hernández, Luis Alberto; Valenciano, Almudena; Foro Arnalot, Palmira; Álvarez Cubero, María Jesús; Cozar, José Manuel; Suárez Novo, José Francisco; Castells Esteve, Manel; Fernández Gonzalo, Pablo; De-Paula Carranza, Belén; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; Guedea, Ferrán; Sancho-Pardo, Gemma; Craven-Bartle, Jordi; Ortiz Gordillo, María José; Cabrera Roldán, Patricia; Rodríguez Melcón, Juan Ignacio; Herrera Ramos, Estefanía; Rodríguez Gallego, Carlos; Lara, Pedro C. (Nature publishing group, 2016)
    BACKGROUND: Novel predictors of prognosis and treatment response for prostate cancer (PCa) are required to better individualize treatment. Single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in four genes directly (XRCC5 (X-ray repair ...
  • Bladder cancer index: cross-cultural adaptation into Spanish and psychometric evaluation
    Schmidt, Stefanie, 1979-; Riel, Ricard; Frances, Albert; Lorente Garin, José Antonio; Bonfill, Xavier; Martínez Zapata, María José; Morales Suárez-Varela, María; Cruz, Javier de la; Emparanza, José Ignacio; Sánchez, María José; Zamora, Javier; Goñi, Juan Manuel Ramos; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; EMPARO-CU Study Group (BioMed Central, 2014)
    Background: The Bladder Cancer Index (BCI) is so far the only instrument applicable across all bladder cancer patients, independent of tumor infiltration or treatment applied. We developed a Spanish version of the BCI, and ...
  • Changes in health-related quality of life after orthognathic surgery: a multicenter study
    Duarte, Valentina; Zaror, Carlos; Villanueva, Julio; Werlinger, Fabiola; Vidal, Constanza; Solé, Pedro; O'Ryan, Juan Alberto; Requena, Roberto; Dallaserra, Matías; Rojas, René; Burgos, Marcela; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat (Springer, 2022)
    Objective: To evaluate changes in general and oral health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients with dentofacial deformity undergoing orthognathic surgery, and whether these changes vary according to type of deformity. ...
  • Clinical interval and diagnostic characteristics in a cohort of bladder cancer patients in Spain: a multicenter observational study
    Bonfill, Xavier; Martínez Zapata, María José; Vernooij, Robin W. M.; Sánchez, María José; Morales Suárez-Varela, María; de la Cruz, Javier; Emparanza, José Ignacio; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; Pijoán, José Ignacio; Palou, Joan; Schmidt, Stefanie, 1979-; Madrid, Eva; Abraira, Víctor; Zamora, Javier; EMPARO-CU Study Group (BioMed Central, 2017)
    OBJECTIVE: We performed a cohort study in seven hospitals in Spain to determine the clinical characteristics of incident patients with bladder cancer, the diagnostic process, and the conditions that might affect health ...
  • Clinical intervals and diagnostic characteristics in a cohort of prostate cancer patients in Spain: a multicentre observational study.
    Bonfill, Xavier; Martínez Zapata, María José; Vernooij, Robin W. M.; Sánchez, María José; Morales Suárez-Varela, María; de la Cruz, Javier; Emparanza, José Ignacio; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; Pijoán, José Ignacio; Ramos-Goñi, Juan M.; Palou, Joan; Schmidt, Stefanie, 1979-; Abraira, Víctor; Zamora, Javier; EMPARO-CU Study Group (Springer Verlag, 2015)
    BACKGROUND: Little is known about the healthcare process for patients with prostate cancer, mainly because hospital-based data are not routinely published. The main objective of this study was to determine the clinical ...
  • Comparative effectiveness research on localized prostate cancer treatmens
    Ávila Pacheco, Mónica Marcela, 1984- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2018-07-23)
    This thesis performs the comparison on patient-reported outcomes (health-related quality of life and patients’ preferences) among radical prostatectomy, external radiotherapy and brachytherapy, in the “Spanish Multicentric ...
  • Comparison of quality of life after stereotactic body radiotherapy and surgery for early-stage prostate cancer
    Katz, Alan; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Becerra Bachino, Virginia, 1975-; Cunillera, Oriol; Garin Boronat, Olatz, 1979-; Pardo, Yolanda; Pont Acuña, Àngels; Multicentric Spanish Group of Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer (BioMed Central, 2012)
    BACKGROUND: As the long-term efficacy of stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) becomes established and other prostate cancer treatment approaches are refined and improved, examination of quality of life (QOL) following ...
  • Could an electronic tool to assess asthma control with a 1-day timeframe be useful for clinical management?
    Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; Lizano-Barrantes, Catalina (Elsevier, 2023)
  • Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the early childhood oral health impact scale (ECOHIS) in chilean population
    Zaror, Carlos; Atala-Acevedo, Claudia; Espinoza-Espinoza, Gerardo; Muñoz-Millán, Patricia; Muñoz, Sergio; Martínez-Zapata, María José; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat (BioMed Central, 2018)
    BACKGROUND: The Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale (ECOHIS) measures the impact of dental diseases on Oral Health-Related Quality of Life both in children and their families. The aim of this study was to develop a ...
  • Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Spanish version of the Orthognathic Quality of Life Questionnaire for patients with dentofacial deformities
    Duarte, Valentina; Zaror, Carlos; Villanueva, Julio; Werlinger, Fabiola; Vidal, Constanza; Solé, Pedro; O'Ryan, Juan Alberto; Corona, Gastón; Dallaserra, Matías; Moreno, Begoña; Muñoz, Maximiliano; Cuellar, Javier; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat (Elsevier, 2020)
    Objective: The aim of this study was to develop a Spanish version of the Orthognathic Quality of Life Questionnaire (OQLQ) that is conceptually equivalent to the original questionnaire, as well as acceptable, reliable, ...
  • Economic evaluation of treatments for patients with localized prostate cancer
    Becerra Bachino, Virginia, 1975- (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, 2016-02-08)
    L'objectiu global d'aquesta tesi va ser avaluar l'eficiència, des de la perspectiva dels sistemes de salut, dels tractaments més establerts per als pacients diagnosticats amb càncer de pròstata localitzat. El "Estudi ...
  • Economic evaluation of treatments for patients with localized prostate cancer in Europe: a systematic review
    Becerra Bachino, Virginia, 1975-; Ávila Pacheco, Mónica Marcela, 1984-; Jiménez Conde, Jordi; Cortes-Sanabria, Laura; Pardo Cladellas, Yolanda; Garin Boronat, Olatz, 1979-; Pont Acuña, Àngels; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Cots Reguant, Francesc; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; Multicentric Spanish Group of Clinically Localized Prostate Cancer (BioMed Central, 2016)
    Background: Our objective was to assess the efficiency of treatments in patients with localized prostate cancer, by synthesizing available evidence from European economic evaluations through systematic review. Methods: ...
  • Efficacy of low-frequency low-intensity electrotherapy in the treatment of breast cancer-related lymphoedema: a cross-over randomized trial
    Belmonte Martinez, Roser; Tejero Sánchez, Marta; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; Muniesa Portoles, Josep M.; Duarte Oller, Esther; Cunillera, Oriol; Escalada, Ferran (SAGE Publications, 2012)
    Objective: To compare the efficacy of low-frequency low-intensity electrotherapy and manual lymphatic drainage in the treatment of chronic upper limb breast cancer-related lymphoedema. Design: Cross-over single-blind random ...
  • EuroQol (EQ-5D-5L) validity in assessing the quality of life in adults with asthma: cross-sectional study
    Hernández, Gimena; Garin Boronat, Olatz, 1979-; Dima, Alexandra L.; Pont Acuña, Àngels; Martí-Pastor, Marc; Alonso Caballero, Jordi; Van Ganse, Eric; Laforest, Laurent; Bruin, Marijn de; Mayoral, Karina; Serra-Sutton, Vicky; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; ASTRO-LAB group (JMIR Publications, 2019)
    BACKGROUND: The EuroQol-5 Dimension (EQ-5D), developed in 1990, is a most widely used generic tool to measure the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and considered suitable for patients with asthma. In 2009, the EuroQol ...
  • Factores asociados al estado funcional en personas de 75 o más años de edad no dependientes
    Arnau, Anna; Espaulella, Joan; Serrarols, Marta; Canudas, Judit; Formiga, Francesc; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat (Elsevier, 2012)
    Objetivos: Identificar los factores asociados al estado funcional en una población de ancianos de 75 o más años de edad sin dependencia grave. Métodos: Estudio transversal de una muestra aleatoria (n = 315) de personas del ...
  • Follow-up care of 12 months of patients with bladder cancer in Spain: A multicenter prospective cohort study
    Bonfill, Xavier; Martinez-Zapata, María José; Barrionuevo Rosas, Leslie Margaret, 1977-; Vernooij, Robin W. M.; Sánchez, María José; Morales Suárez-Varela, María; de la Cruz, Javier; Emparanza, José Ignacio; Ferrer Forés, Maria Montserrat; Pijoán, José Ignacio; Palou, Joan; Frances, Albert; Madrid, Eva; Coscia, Claudia; Zamora, Javier; EMPARO-CU Study Group (Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2022)
    The therapeutic approach of bladder cancer strongly determines its prognosis. We describe the treatments and outcomes for a Spanish cohort of patients with bladder cancer for the first 12 months after diagnosis and identify ...