Publication year
2008Source
Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie, 50, 11, (2008), pp. 725-34ISSN
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Article / Letter to editor
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Primary and Community Care
Journal title
Tijdschrift voor Psychiatrie
Volume
vol. 50
Issue
iss. 11
Page start
p. 725
Page end
p. 34
Subject
EBP 3: Effective Primary Care and Public Health; NCEBP 9: Mental healthAbstract
BACKGROUND: Quality of life (QoL) has become an important outcome measure in health care, including in child psychiatry. AIM: To formulate assessment criteria with regard to instruments that are designed to measure QoL in children. METHOD: Literature search, using five key electronic databases. results When selecting an instrument, one has to consider the following aspects: its validity and reliability, the relative dimensions of QoL, its suitability for use with both the child and its parents and its cross-cultural applicability. A number of instruments were found to meet these criteria. CONCLUSION: The Child Quality of Life Questionnaire, the Revidierter Kinder Lebensqualit"atsfragebogen, the tno-azl Children's Quality of Life questionnaire, the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory, the Child Health Questionnaire and in particular the kidscreen show to be suitable instruments for assessing QoL in children.
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