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Quality of life assessment in musculo-skeletal health

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Musculoskeletal disorders affect morbidity, quality of life and mortality, and represent an increasing economic and societal burden in the context of population aging and increased life expectancy. Improvement of quality of life should be one of the priorities of any interventions to prevent and treat musculoskeletal disorders in the ageing population. Two main approaches, namely generic and disease-specific instruments, can be applied to measure health-related quality of life. Among the generic tools available in scientific literature, the short form 36 questionnaire (SF-36) and the Euroqol five item questionnaire (EQ-5D) are two of the most popular questionnaires used to quantify the health related quality of life in people with musculoskeletal disorders. However, because generic tools may not always be able to detect subtle effects of a specific condition on quality of life, a specific tool is highly valuable. Specific tools improve the ability to clinically characterize quality of life in subjects with a specific musculoskeletal disorder, as well as the capacity to assess changes over time in the QoL of these subjects. The recent development of specific tools should help to validate preventive and therapeutic interventions in this field.

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We thank the Prince Mutaib Bin Abdullah Chair for Biomarkers of Osteoporosis and Deanship of Scientific Research, King Saud University for their support.

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  1. Department of Public Health, Epidemiology and Health Economics, University of Liège, Quartier Hôpital, Avenue Hippocrate 13, CHUB23, 4000, Liège, Belgium

    Charlotte Beaudart, Olivier Bruyère & Jean-Yves Reginster

  2. Division of Bone Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva University Hospitals, Rue Gabrielle Perret-Gentil 4, 1211, Geneva 14, Switzerland

    Emmanuel Biver & René Rizzoli

  3. MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK

    Cyrus Cooper

  4. NIHR Musculoskeletal Biomedical Research Unit, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

    Cyrus Cooper

  5. Prince Mutaib Chair for Biomarkers of Osteoporosis, Biochemistry Department, College of Science, King Saud University, Riyadh, 11451, Saudi Arabia

    Nasser Al-Daghri

  6. Director of the Bone, Cartilage and Muscle Metabolism Unit and Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences, CHU Liège, Quai Godefroid Kurth 45, 4000, Liège, Belgium

    Jean-Yves Reginster

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Beaudart, C., Biver, E., Bruyère, O. et al. Quality of life assessment in musculo-skeletal health. Aging Clin Exp Res 30, 413–418 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40520-017-0794-8

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