 | T.F. Riggar, EdD, Dennis R. Maki, PhD, CRC, NCC - Social Science - 2003 - 432 pages
...Cappel, l977). The World Health Organization definition of QOL refers to "individuals' perceptions of their position in life in the context of the culture...their goals, expectations, standards, and concerns" (WHOQOL Group, l995). Through the use of a valid system for assessing changes in QOL resulting from... | |
 | Shulamith Kreitler, Myriam Weyl Ben Arush - Medical - 2004 - 474 pages
...different domains of life (Payers and Machin 2000) or more specifically, the individuals' evaluation of their position in life, in the context of the culture...their goals, expectations, standards and concerns (WHOQOL Group 1995). These definitions emphasize the individuals' overall evaluations of their satisfaction... | |
 | Wolfgang Dr. Glatzer, Susanne von Below, Matthias Stoffregen - Social Science - 2004 - 382 pages
...may be" (2000) with the WHOQOL group's definition of quality of life as "an individual's perceptions of their position in life in the context of the culture...their goals, expectations, standards and concerns" (1995). They differ only in two respects: firstly, Clark's method for measuring well-being reflects... | |
 | Frank H. Columbus - Arthritis - 2004 - 222 pages
...important to him/her. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines QoL as the individuals perceptions of their position in life in the context of the culture...their goals, expectations, standards and concerns" (WHO, 1998). Lawton (1991, p. 6) also stated a broad conceptualisation of QoL that emphasises both... | |
 | Sana Loue, Martha Sajatovic - Medical - 2004 - 714 pages
..."an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value system in which they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards, and concerns. It is a broad ranging concept affected in a complex way by the person's physical health, psychological... | |
 | Mary Ruggie - Social Science - 2004 - 250 pages
..."individuals' perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in wh1ch they live and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns" (1405). After constructing questions to operationalize the concepts, the WHOQOL Group conducted pilot... | |
 | Connie Henke Yarbro, Michelle Goodman, Margaret Hansen Frogge - Cancer - 2005 - 1928 pages
...that the World Health Organization has chosen to define quality of life in a comprehensive manner: an individual's perception of their position in life...their goals, expectations, standards, and concerns. It is a broad-ranging concept affected in a complex way by the person's physical health, psychological... | |
 | Gian Gaetano Delaini - Medical - 2005 - 278 pages
...many definitions of QoL: - The extent to which hopes and ambitions are matched by experience [7]. - An individual's perception of their position in life...their goals, expectations, standards and concerns. It is a wideranging concept affected in a complex way by the person's physical health, psychological... | |
 | Connie Henke Yarbro, Michelle Goodman, Margaret Hansen Frogge - Cancer - 2005 - 1928 pages
...that the World Health Organization has chosen to define quality of life in a comprehensive manner: an individual's perception of their position in life...their goals, expectations, standards, and concerns. It is a broad-ranging concept affected in a complex way by the person's physical health, psychological... | |
 | P.B. Mansourian - Medical - 2008 - 303 pages
...and its scope has broadened. For example, WHO defines quality of life as "individuals' perceptions of their position in life in the context of the culture...their goals, expectations, standards, and concerns." Such a broad definition covers the following six domains of the quality of life concept: (i) physical... | |
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Their definition of quality of life is defined as: an individual's perception of their position in life in the context of the culture and value systems in which they live, and in relation to their goals, expectations, standards and concerns. 
