OBJECTIVE This article describes the application of quality improvement methodology to implement a measurement tool for the assessment of functional status in pediatric patients with chronic pain referred for behavioral intervention. METHODS The Functional Disability Inventory (FDI), a validated instrument for assessment of pain-related disability, was chosen as the primary clinical outcome m...

Surgery in patients with neuromuscular scoliosis is associated with a higher rate of complications. It is still controversially discussed whether the patients truly benefit from deformity correction. The purpose of this study is to investigate if the quality of life has been improved and if the patients and their caregivers are satisfied with the results of surgery. This is a retrospective clin...

OBJECTIVE To study the quality of life, health satisfaction and family impact on caregivers of children with developmental delays in Taiwan. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS The caregivers of children with diagnoses of developmental delays recruited from a teaching hospital in northern Taiwan. METHODS The main caregivers of 48 male and 22 female children with developmental delays we...

Motor function, cognition, functional independence and quality of life have been described in myelomeningocele patients, but no study has investigated their relationships. We aimed to investigate the relationships between motor function, cognition, functional independence, quality of life, age, and lesion level in myelomeningocele patients, and investigate the influence of hydrocephalus on thes...

We aimed to investigate whether infants with myelomeningocele would improve their motor ability and functional independence after ten sessions of physical therapy and compare the outcomes of conventional physical therapy (CPT) to a physical therapy program based on reflex stimulation (RPT). Twelve children were allocated to CPT (n = 6, age 18.3 months) or RPT (n = 6, age 18.2 months). The RPT i...

OBJECTIVE We compared children's self-care performance and caregivers' perception of children's performance on functional goals established for children with hemiplegic cerebral palsy (CP) after unimanual constraint-induced movement therapy (CIMT) or hand-arm bimanual intensive training (HABIT). METHOD Sixteen children with CP were randomized to the CIMT or HABIT group. Interventions lasted f...

OBJECTIVE Pediatric somatization studies have used the 35-item Child Somatization Inventory (CSI-35) or psychometrically refined 24-item CSI (CSI-24). Exploratory factor analysis of the CSI-24 has identified a single factor that did not show good model fit in confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Further evaluation of the CSI-24 factor structure is needed. METHODS The present study examined alt...

OBJECTIVE To identify family characteristics associated with children's ability to function with recurrent pain. METHODS Seventy-eight children ages 7-17 years with recurrent pain syndromes [migraine headache or recurrent abdominal pain (RAP)] were recruited from clinic settings. Children completed pain diaries and the Functional Disability Inventory (FDI). Mothers and fathers completed self-...

The purpose of this research was to present the latest development of the The Perceived Emotional Distress Inventory (PEDI) as a brief 15-item self-report measure intended to be used for the assessment of psychological distress in cancer patients. Factor Analyses of Principal Components with promax rotations were performed with a combined male and female sample of 481 cancer patients at St. Jos...

background annual four to five thousand babies are born with hearing loss in the iran. hearing impairment is a disability that affects the quality of life of people with this problem. these individuals need to support from family and friends because of their specific conditions that this received support has impact on their quality of life. this study was conducted to assess the status of perce...