INTRODUCTION Equine therapy, an intervention method that has been practiced for decades around the world, is used to treat patients susceptible to psychomotor delays. OBJECTIVES We examine development of gross motor function compared to other psychomotor skills in patients undergoing this therapy, and analyse how this improvement affects general health status and quality of life. MATERIAL A...

Results We included 25 patients between the ages of 8 and 17, with an average of 12.6 years, 68% girls. In relation to the CDI, 95% were below the cutoff point, average=5.72. The highest score was 18 points. In the Family APGAR, the average was 13.4. In the PedsQL 4.0 the score of patients were between 20.8 and 95.1 with an average=62.6 and SD=19.8. The score from the point of views of patients...

BACKGROUND Children with congenital adrenal hyperplasia (CAH) require life-long glucocorticoid replacement and have daily intermittent hyper/hypocortisolemia and hyperandrogenemia. Health-related quality of life (HRQL) is important for understanding the impact the disease and therapy have on physical, mental, emotional, and social functioning. Little is known about HRQL in CAH. We compared HRQL...

We identified the prevalence of depression and quality of life (QOL) of Japanese children with childhood cancer after discharge using the Birleson Depression Self-rating Scale for Children (DSRS-C) and the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL). Subjects were 118 caregivers who raised children ages 2-18 with childhood cancer; subjects resided in suburban districts of Japan and completed i...

Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the attitudes, knowledge and perception of medical students about elderly patients before and after implementation of a new geriatrics curriculum and to assess perceived attainment of objectives in geriatric module. Methods: This was a pre-post cohort study of seventy 6th year (first clinical year) medical students. Questionnaires were provided ...

BACKGROUND Women with disabilities are less likely to receive maternal healthcare services compared to women without disabilities. While few studies have reviewed healthcare experience of women with disabilities, no studies have been conducted to understand provider's attitude towards disability in Nepal, yet the attitude and behaviour of healthcare providers may have a significant influence on...

OBJECTIVE Effects of pump treatment vs. four times daily injections were explored in children with diabetes with regard to quality of life and impact of disease as well as adverse effects and parameters of metabolic control. METHODS An open, parallel, randomized controlled prospective comparative study lasting 14 months was completed by 38 type 1 children with diabetes (age 4-16 yr) following...

Early dietary treatment of phenylketonuria (PKU), an inborn error of phenylalanine (Phe) metabolism, results in normal cognitive development. Although health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of PKU patients has been reported as unaffected in high-income countries, there are scarce data concerning HRQoL and adherence to treatment of PKU children and adolescents from Brazil. The present study comp...

Burns represent the second most common cause of non-intentional death in children under the age of five. Burns are amongst the most traumatic injuries and may impose significant psychological, educational, social and future occupational limitations to the young child. This cross-sectional study aimed to determine the socio-economic and clinical factors which predict quality of life in children ...

Which proxy-reported outcome measures have been developed for use with children aged 6 years and younger to assess asthma symptoms, asthma control, and asthma-specific health-related quality of life, and do these questionnaires' measurement properties support their use as end-points in clinical trials? A two-phase literature search was conducted: 1) studies describing relevant questionnaires we...