| CONTENTS |
| Editor-in-chief greetings |
| Greetings of Prof. I. Barofsky, ex-president of International Society for Quality of Life Research |
| EDITORIAL |
Shevchenko Yu.L.
Modern approaches to quality of life assessment in public health |
| ORIGINAL ARTICLES |
Cleeland C.S., Mendoza T.R., Wang X.S., Chou C., Harle M.T., Morrissey M., Engstrom M.C.
Assessing symptom distress in cancer patients. The M.D. Anderson Symptom Inventory |
Novik A.A., Ionova T.I., Kishtovich A.V.
Quality of life assessment in St.-Petersburg general population by using the method of integral profiles |
Nikitina T.P., Kishtovich A.V., Moiseenko Eu.I., Sabirova A.V.
Pediatrics quality of life research: development of the Russian version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales for quality of life assessment in 8-12 years old children |
Tsepkova A.A., Shemerovskaya T.G., Kishtovich A.V., Fedorenko D.A.
Validation of the Russian version of AIMS2-SF in rheumatoid arthritis patients |
Novik A.A., K.V.Liadov, Ionova T.I., Lisukov I.A., Kishtovich A.V.
Quality of life assessment in multiple sclerosis patients after blood stem cell transplantation |
Novik A.A., Ionova T.I., Cleeland C.S., Wang X.S., Mendoza T.R., Shemerovskaya T.G., Fedorenko D.A., Kishtovich A.V.
The use of the Brief Fatigue Inventory in systemic rheumatic patients |
| REVIEWS |
Ionova T.I., Lyadov K.V., Novik A.A., Shuvaev V.A.
Quality of life assessment in gastroenterology |
Novik A.A., Ionova T.I., Kalyadina S.A.
Symptom assessment in cancer patients |
Kishtovich A.V., Ionova T.I.
Methodological aspects of application of statistical analysis in quality of life research |
| BOOK REVIEW |
| Book review by Academician H. Sofronov for the textbook "Quality of Life Research in Medicine" by Yu. Shevchenko |
| INFORMATION |
| Information about the Multinational Center of Quality of Life Research |
| Information for membership in Multinational Center of Quality of Life Research |
| WEB-page of the Multinational Center of Quality of Life Research |
| CONFERENCES |
Report on regional conference of International Society for Quality of Life Research,
3-5 October 2002, St-Petersburg, Russia |
10th Annual Conference of International Society for Quality of Life Research,
12-15 November 2003, Prague, Czech Republic |
| EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS |
| Training course "Quality of life research in medicine"
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| INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS |
