BACKGROUND Despite an increasing recognition that both asthma and allergic rhinitis are serious health disorders in Thailand, their combined effects on patients' quality of life in the Thai population has not been reported. OBJECTIVE The study aimed to evaluate the impacts of allergic rhinitis and asthma on the quality of life of young adolescents in Thailand. METHODS A total of 1,440 pupil...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To explore the response shift phenomenon in pediatric patients with cancer and to determine its effects on ratings of health-related quality of life (HRQOL). DESIGN Retrospective pre- and post-test design. SETTING Pediatric oncology department in the northern part of the Netherlands. SAMPLE 37 children newly diagnosed with cancer and 80 parents. METHODS The then-test ...

BACKGROUND Fatigue is an important problem in paediatric cancer patients and yoga may be an effective intervention. The primary objective was to determine the feasibility of individualized yoga for hospitalized children receiving intensive chemotherapy. METHODS We included English-speaking children and adolescents aged 7-18 years receiving intensive chemotherapy or haematopoietic stem cell tr...

OBJECTIVES Survival of infants with intestinal failure (IF) has increased in the past decade; however, data on their health-related quality of life (HRQOL) are lacking. We hypothesized that HRQOL would be lower among children with IF compared with that of healthy children. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study of the HRQOL of children enrolled in the outpatient intestinal rehabilitatio...

INTRODUCTION Cerebral palsy (CP) interferes with the quality of life (QOL) of children with CP, and given that parents report having to often guide their children's decision making, it is important to understand the psychosocial factors that have a potential influence on parent-proxy reports. The purpose of this study was to investigate the impact of maternal anxiety and depression symptoms on ...

Guttman scale analysis may be considered as two inseparable endeavors: (1) to ascertain if a set of stimu!'i are unidimensional in nature and if so, (2) to tank order respondents along the same continuum based on their reaction to toe stimuli. For example, suppose a set of four attitude statements (S1-54) are constructed such that similarity of content exists (e.g. all concern attitude toward i...

BACKGROUND Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) is a measure to assess health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children and adolescents. It is formed by 23 items adapted to children age and includes a parent proxy report version. With four multidimensional subscales and three summary scores, it measures health as defined by WHO. The concepts measured by this instrument are 'physical f...

BACKGROUND Quality-Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) are often used to make judgements about the relative cost-effectiveness of competing interventions and require an understanding of the relationship between health and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) when measured in utility terms. There is a dearth of information in the literature concerning how childhood overweight is associated with qualit...

BACKGROUND We aimed to identify a brief screening measure for detection of cognitive deficit in children treated for cerebellar tumors that would be useful in clinical practice. METHODS A sample of 72 children, aged 8-14 years, and within 3 years post diagnosis for standard-risk medulloblastoma (n = 37) or low-grade cerebellar astrocytoma (n = 35) and 38 children in a nontumor group were asse...

BACKGROUND This study aimed at determining the validity of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 (PedsQL™ 4.0) for the measurement of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in Colombian children. METHODS Validation study of measurement instruments. The PedsQL™ 4.0 was applied by convenience sampling to 375 pairs of children and adolescents between the ages of 5 and 17 and to their paren...