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Suzanne M. Skevington is affiliated with the University of Manchester in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Medicine, with significant contributions to the subfields of General Health Professions, Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Oncology, and Nephrology.

The topics central to Skevington's work include Health, psychology, and well-being; Cancer survivorship and care; Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life; Dialysis and Renal Disease Management; Health disparities and outcomes; Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues; and Art Therapy and Mental Health.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Currie Moore, Lesley-Anne Carter, Sandip Mitra, Alison Wearden, and Maria Panagioti.

Skevington has published multiple papers in several scientific journals. The most recent notable publications are:

  • Enhancing the multi-dimensional assessment of quality of life: introducing the WHOQOL-Combi, 2020, Quality of Life Research
  • Is Culture Important to the Relationship Between Quality of Life and Resilience? Global Implications for Preparing Communities for Environmental and Health Disasters, 2020, Frontiers in Psychology
  • Community asset participation and social medicine increases qualities of life, 2020, Social Science & Medicine
  • Peer support to maintain psychological wellbeing in people with advanced cancer: findings from a feasibility study for a randomised controlled trial, 2020, BMC Palliative Care
  • Quality of life improved for patients after starting dialysis but is impaired, initially, for their partners: a multi-centre, longitudinal study, 2020, BMC Nephrology

The publishing venues where Skevington frequently contributes include:

  • Quality of Life Research
  • BMC Nephrology
  • Social Science & Medicine
  • Frontiers in Psychology
  • BMC Palliative Care

Best Publications

  • The World Health Organization's WHOQOL-BREF quality of life assessment: psychometric properties and results of the international field trial. A report from the WHOQOL group.

    Suzanne M. Skevington;M. Lotfy;K. A. O'Connell

  • A cross-cultural study of spirituality, religion and personal beliefs as components of quality of life.

    Suzanne Skevington

  • On subjective well-being and quality of life

    Laura Camfield;Suzanne M. Skevington

  • Investigating the relationship between pain and discomfort and quality of life, using the WHOQOL.

    Suzanne M Skevington

  • The effects of exercise interventions on quality of life in clinical and healthy populations; a meta-analysis.

    Fiona Bridget Gillison;Suzanne M. Skevington;Ayana Sato;Martyn Standage

  • Advancing cross-cultural research on quality of life: Observations drawn from the WHOQOL development

    Suzanne M. Skevington

  • Developing methods for assessing quality of life in different cultural settings. The history of the WHOQOL instruments.

    Suzanne M. Skevington;Norman Sartorius;Marianne Amir

  • Expecting a good quality of life in health: assessing people with diverse diseases and conditions using the WHOQOL-BREF.

    Suzanne M. Skevington;Farah M. McCrate

  • WHOQOL-HIV for quality of life assessment among people living with HIV and AIDS: results from the field test

    K. A. O'Connell;Shekhar Saxena;S. M. Skevington

  • Putting the Q into quality of life; the identification of subjective constructions of health-related quality of life using Q methodology.

    Paul H.D Stenner;Deborah Cooper;Suzanne M Skevington

  • Preliminary development of the World Health Organsiation's Quality of Life HIV instrument (WHOQOL-HIV): analysis of the pilot version.

    K O'Connell;S Skevington;S Saxena

  • Exploring the experience of introjected regulation for exercise across gender in adolescence

    Fiona Gillison;Mike Osborn;Martyn Standage;Suzanne Skevington

  • An international quality of life instrument to assess wellbeing in adults who are HIV-positive: a short form of the WHOQOL-HIV (31 items).

    Kathryn Ann O’Connell;Suzanne M. Skevington

  • How is subjective well-being related to quality of life? Do we need two concepts and both measures?

    S.M. Skevington;J.R. Böhnke

  • Measuring quality of life in britain: Introducing the WHOQOL-100

    Suzanne M Skevington

  • Changes in quality of life and psychological need satisfaction following the transition to secondary school

    Fiona Gillison;Martyn Standage;Suzanne Skevington

  • Can people with mild to moderate dementia provide reliable answers about their quality of life

    Richard Trigg;Roy W. Jones;Suzanne M. Skevington

  • Changes in the quality of life of patients receiving antidepressant medication in primary care: Validation of the WHOQOL–100

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  • Validation of the WHOQOL-100: pain management improves quality of life for chronic pain patients.

    Suzanne M. Skevington;Marlene S. Carse;Amanda C. De C. Williams

  • The relevance of spirituality, religion and personal beliefs to health-related quality of life: Themes from focus groups in Britain

    Kathryn A. O'Connell;Suzanne M. Skevington

  • Initial steps to developing the World Health Organisation’s Quality of Life Instrument (WHOQOL) module for international assessment of HIV/AIDS

    Suzanne M Skevington

Frequent Co-Authors

Fiona Gillison
Fiona Gillison University of Bath
Martyn Standage
Martyn Standage University of Bath
Jeremy R. Parr
Jeremy R. Parr Newcastle University
Alison Wearden
Alison Wearden University of Manchester
Anna Kokkevi
Anna Kokkevi National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Peter A. Coventry
Peter A. Coventry University of York
Richard Emsley
Richard Emsley King's College London
Mirko Uljarević
Mirko Uljarević University of Melbourne
Iliana Magiati
Iliana Magiati University of Western Australia
Jacqui Rodgers
Jacqui Rodgers Newcastle University

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