HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE

HCM516

Course Code: HCM516
Semester: -
Theory+Practice: 3 + 0
ECTS: 10

Course Type

Elective Course

Course Level

Master's Degree Without Thesis

Year of Study

Semester

ECTS

Name of Lecturer(s)

Professor Berna Simten Malhan

Learning Outcomes

At the end of this course, the students;

Know the concepts of quality of life and health-related quality of life
Recognize the parameter of health-related quality of life and associate the parameters in each other
Evaluate and comment the health-related quality of life

Mode of Delivery

Face to face

Prerequisites

Recommended Optional Programme Components

There is no recommended optional programme component for this course.

Course Description

Course covers the topics of the definition, basic concepts and the measurement of health-related quality of life; cultural adaptation of the scales, place of scales in clinical practice and the place and importance of scales in the health economics.

Course Contents

WEEK	TOPICS
1^st Week	Would you like to live long or quality? What is the health-related quality of life
2^nd Week	ICF and health-related quality of life
3^rd Week	Factors that affect the quality of life the interaction of these factors with each other
4^th Week	Affects of pain and sleep on quality of life
5^th Week	Affects of physical activity and fatigue on quality of life
6^th Week	Affects of emotional state, stress and anxiety on quality of life
7^th Week	Evaluation of quality of life and general quality of life
8^th Week	Midterm exam
9^th Week	Evaluation technics of disease-related quality of life
10^th Week	Evaluation technics of disease-related quality of life
11^th Week	Quality of life in neurological diseases
12^th Week	Quality of life in orthopedic diseases
13^th Week	Children and quality of life
14^th Week	Life quality of prime caretaker
15^th Week	Life quality of healthcare workers

Recommended or Required Reading

D. Fidan, B.Ünal. Sağlığa ilişkin yaşam kalitesi kavramı ve ölçüm yöntemleri. Sağlık ve toplum, 2003.
A. Bowling. Measuring Health: a review of quality of life measurement scale, 1991.www.dwp.gov.uk
S. Başaran, R.Güzel. Yaşam Kalitesi ve sağlık sonuçlarını değerlendirme ölçütleri. Romatizma 2005; 20(1):55-9.
Ç. Öksüz, M.Kılınç, S.Aksu Yıldırım. Predictors of Health related quality of life in adult ambulatory independent neuromuscular diseases. Neurosciences 2009; 14(4): 355-9.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture
Case Study
Practice

Assessment Methods and Criteria

	Quantity	Percentage (%)
Mid-term	1	25
Assignment	1	15
Total(%)		40
Contribution of In-term Studies to Overall Grade(%)		40
Contribution of Final Examination to Overall Grade(%)		60
Total(%)		100

ECTS Allocated Based on Student Workload

Activities	Quantity	Duration (Hour)	Total Workload (Hour)
Midterm exam	1	1	1
Preparation for Quiz
Individual or group work	14	10	140
Preparation for Final exam	1	20	20
Course hours	14	3	42
Preparation for Midterm exam	1	15	15
Laboratory (including preparation)
Final exam	1	2	2
Homework	2	10	20
Article	7	7	49
Total Work Load			289
Total Work Load / 30 (h)			9.63
ECTS Credit of the Course			10

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Work Placement(s)

Programme Qualifications / Learning Outcomes

	LO1	LO2	LO3
K1	X	X
K2
K3
K4
K5
K6
K7
K8			X
K9
K10
K11
K12
K13