Highlights ■ First Brazilian Portuguese version of the LT-QOL questionnaire. ■ Translation and cross-cultural adaptation followed COSMIN recommendations. ■ Strong internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha=0.86). ■ Excellent intra-rater reliability (ICC=0.93). ■ High convergent validity with SF-36 and good correlation  with SGRQ. ■ Provides a disease-specific tool for assessing quality of life after lung transplantation in Brazil. ■ Supports future clinical monitoring and research on transplant outcomes. ABSTRACT Objective: To translate, cross-culturally adapt, and validate the Lung Transplant Quality of Life questionnaire […]

Highlights ■ Assessing how vascular access devices affect quality of life is essential to effectively manage chemotherapy patients. ■ The translation and validation of the QoLVAD questionnaire demonstrated that the Brazilian Portuguese version can be applied to the Brazilian population. ABSTRACT Background: The use of long-term devices for chemotherapy in neoplastic diseases is very common. The CAVA trial was an extensive study that prospectively evaluated more than 1000 patients undergoing chemotherapy and randomly allocated them to three groups based on […]