Key IWQOL-Lite Publications (Full Text where available).Kolotkin RL, Crosby RD, Kosloski KD, Williams GR. Development of a brief measure to assess quality of life in obesity. Obesity Research. 2001;9:102-11.
Kolotkin RL, Crosby RD, Williams GR, Hartley GG, Nicol S. The relationship between health-related quality of life and weight loss. Obesity Research. 2001;9:564-71. Kolotkin RL, Crosby RD. Psychometric evaluation of the Impact Of Weight On Quality Of Life-Lite Questionnaire (IWQOL-Lite) in a community sample. Quality of Life Research. 2002;11 (2):157-71. Kolotkin RL, Crosby RD, Williams GR. Health-related quality of life varies among obese subgroups. Obesity Research. 2002;10:748-56. Engel SG, Crosby RD, Kolotkin RL, Hartley GG, Williams GR, Wonderlich SA, Mitchell JE. The impact of weight loss and regain on obesity-specific quality of life: mirror image or differential effect. Obesity Research. 2003;11:1207-13. Kolotkin RL, Crosby RD, Pendleton R, Strong M, Gress RE, Adams TD. Health-related quality of life in patients seeking gastric bypass surgery vs. non-treatment-seeking controls. Obesity Surgery. 2003;13:371-7. Kolotkin R.L., Crosby R.D., Williams G.R. Assessing weight-related quality of life in obese persons with type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice, 2003; 61: 125-32. Crosby R.D., Kolotkin R.L., Williams G.R. An integrated method to determine meaningful changes in health-related quality of life. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 2004; 57: 1153-60. Brazier J.E., Kolotkin R.L., Crosby R.D., Williams G.R. Estimating a Preference-Based Single Index for the Impact of Weight on Quality of Life-Lite Instrument (IWQOL-Lite) from the SF-6D. Value in Health, 2004; 7: 490-498. Kolotkin R., Crosby R., Corey-Lisle P., Li H., Swanson J. Performance of a weight-related measure of quality of life in a psychiatric sample. Quality of Life Research, 2006; 15: 587-596. Kolotkin R.L., Corey-Lisle P.K., Crosby R.D., Swanson J.M., Tuomari V., L'Italien G., Mitchell J.E. Impact of obesity on health-related quality of life in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Obesity (Silver Spring), 2008; 16: 749-754. Kolotkin R.L., Norquist J., Crosby R.D., Suryawanshi S., Teixeira P.J, Heymsfield S.B, Erondu N., Ngozi Nguyen A.M. One-year health-related quality of life outcomes in weight loss trial participants: Comparison of three measures. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2009; 7, 53. Kolotkin R.L., Gadde K.M., Peterson C.A., Crosby R.D. Health-related quality of life in two randomized controlled trials of phentermine/topiramate for obesity: what mediates improvement? Quality of Life Research, 2016; 25 (5): 1237-1244. Kolotkin, R.L., Crosby, R.D., Wang, Z-J. Health-related quality of life in randomized controlled trials of lorcaserin for obesity management: what mediates improvement? Clinical Obesity, 2017, 7(6): 347–353. Kolotkin, R.L., Kim, J., Davidson, L.E., Crosby, R.D., Hunt, S.C., Adams, T.D. 12-year Trajectory of Health-Related Quality of Life in Gastric Bypass Patients vs. Comparison Groups. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases, 2018; Volume14, Issue 9, Pages 1359-1365. Pearl RL, Wadden TA, Bach C, Tronieri JS, Berkowitz RI. Six-Month Follow-up from a Randomized Controlled Trial of the Weight BIAS Program. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2020;10.1002/oby.22931. doi:10.1002/oby.22931 Walsh OA, Wadden TA, Tronieri JS, Chao AM, Pearl RL. Weight Bias Internalization Is Negatively Associated With Weight-Related Quality of Life in Persons Seeking Weight Loss. Front Psychol. 2018 Dec 17;9:2576. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02576. PMID: 30618992; PMCID: PMC6304379. Flølo TN, Tell GS, Kolotkin RL, Aasprang A, Norekvål TM, Våge V, Andersen JR. Eating self-efficacy as predictor of long-term weight loss and obesity-specific quality of life after sleeve gastrectomy: A prospective cohort study. Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases. 2019 Feb;15(2):161-167. Nielsen, H.J., Nedrebø, B.G., Fosså, A., Andersen, J.R., Assmus, J., Dagsland, V.H., Dankel, S.N., Gudbrandsen, O.A., Fernø, J., Hjellestad, I., Hjermstad, M.J., Kolotkin, R.L., Thorsen, H.L., Mellgren, G., Flølo, T.N. Seven-year trajectories of body weight, quality of life and comorbidities following Roux-en-Y gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy. International Journal of Obesity (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41366-021-01028-5 Svanevik M, Lorentzen J, Borgeraas H, Sandbu R, Seip B, Medhus AW, Hertel JK, Kolotkin RL, Småstuen MC, Hofsø D, Hjelmesæth J. Patient-reported outcomes, weight loss, and remission of type 2 diabetes 3 years after gastric bypass and sleeve gastrectomy (Oseberg); a single-centre, randomised controlled trial. Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol. 2023 Jul 3:S2213-8587(23)00127-4. doi: 10.1016/S2213-8587(23)00127-4. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 37414071. |
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Kolotkin, R.L., Crosby, R.D., Kosloski, K.D., and Williams, G.R. Development of a brief measure to assess quality of life in obesity. Obesity Research, 2001, 9 (2), 102-111. Kolotkin, R.L., Crosby, R.D. Psychometric evaluation of the Impact of Weight on Quality of Life-Lite questionnaire (IWQOL-Lite) in a community sample. Quality of Life Research, 2002, 11(2), 157-171. All IWQOL-Lite Publications
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