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. 2023 Apr 8;64(4):gnad041. doi: 10.1093/geront/gnad041

Table 4.

QoL Measures and Their Specific Domains

QoL measures Specific domains No of studies References
General QoL (n = 8) Overall QoL 5 Korkmaz Aslan et al. (2019); Low et al. (2013); Top et al. (2012a,
2012b)
Health-related QoL 2 Gu et al. (2019); Hou et al. (2020)
Cancer-related QoL 1 Schroyen et al. (2017)
Physical health and functioning (n = 12) Self-rated health 4 Beyer et al. (2015); Cadmus et al. (2021); Takatori et al. (2019); Wurm et al. (2013)
Physical functioning 3 Sargent-Cox et al. (2012b); Tovel et al. (2019); Wurm et al. (2013)
Physical activity 4 Beyer et al. (2019); Beyer et al. (2015); Dogra et al. (2015); Emile et al. (2014)
MyocardiaI infarction recovery rate 1 Levy et al. (2019)
Mental health (n = 6) Memory self-efficacy 1 Stephan et al. (2011)
Self-rated mental health 2 Bryant et al. (2012); Dogra et al. (2015)
Depression 2 Bryant et al. (2012); Chen et al. (2021)
Loneliness 1 Chen et al. (2021)
Psychological health (n = 10) Life satisfaction 9 Bai et al. (2017); Bryant et al. (2012); Chen et al. (2021); Fukase et al. (2018); Liu et al. (2020); Stephan et al. (2011); Suh et al. (2012); Wurm et al. (2013); Zhang et al. (2018)
Self-esteem 1 Marquet et al. (2019)
General well-being (n = 2) Physical and social well-being 1 Cramm & Nieboer (2018)
Subjective vitality 1 Emile et al. (2015)

Note: QoL = quality of life.