PedsQL
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Top Contributors - Khloud Shreif and Chelsea Mclene
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The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) a valid, practical, brief, standardized, generic, and self-reporting assessment tool to measure health related quality of life HRQOL for pediatric and adolescents, it can be carried by patient him self and their parents, there are different forms for both methods.
PedsQL measure facilitates to assess risk, tracking health status, assess the impact of an intervention on HRQOL, and used for measuring treatment outcomes for inpatient in pediatric populations. PedsQL is used with both healthy school populations and with pediatric populations with acute and chronic health conditions, there are different modules of PedsQL for different health conditions for pediatrics that developed by the creators of PedsQL[1].
The PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales instrument is the last version of PedsQL and consists of the following:
- Physical functioning.
- Emotional functioning.
- Social functioning.
- School functioning.
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- ↑ Varni JW, Seid M, Rode CA. The PedsQL™: measurement model for the pediatric quality of life inventory. Medical care. 1999 Feb 1:126-39.
