PedsQL
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Objective[edit | edit source]
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 contain 23-items, include formats for typically developing children and adolescents 2 to 18 years old and consists of the following:
- Physical functioning (8 items).
- Emotional functioning (5 items).
- Social functioning (5 items).
- School functioning (5 items).
Intended Population[edit | edit source]
PedsQL used with healthy population, and to measure primary outcomes with inpatient children.
There are different modules of PedsQL used with acute and chronic:
- Duchene muscular dystrophy
- Neuromuscular disease
- Asthma: PedsQLTM 3.0 Asthma Module Asthma contains 28-item including four scales; asthma symptoms (11 items), treatment problems (11 items), Worry (3 items), and communication (3 items)[2].
- Cardiac conditions: PedsQL 3.0 Cardiac Module use the same format of PedsQL and contain items specific to heart disease as following; symptoms (7 items), perceived physical appearance(3 items), cognitive problems (4items), treatment anxiety (5 items), and communication(3 items).
- Rheumatology
- Patients with diabetes
- Cancer.
Method of Use[edit | edit source]
PedsQL contain appropriate forms for different ages of developing children 2–4, 5–7, 8–12, and 13–18 years to assess HRQOL over the past month. The self-report is used in children and adolescents ages 5 to 18 years, while parents or parent proxy-report of child is used for children and adolescents ages 2 to 18 years.
Each item of the instrument is scored on a 5-point scale from 0- 4, with a higher score indicating worse function
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References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Varni JW, Seid M, Rode CA. The PedsQL™: measurement model for the pediatric quality of life inventory. Medical care. 1999 Feb 1:126-39.
- ↑ Seid M, Limbers CA, Driscoll KA, Opipari-Arrigan LA, Gelhard LR, Varni JW. Reliability, validity, and responsiveness of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™(PedsQL™) Generic Core Scales and Asthma Symptoms Scale in vulnerable children with asthma. Journal of Asthma. 2010 Mar 1;47(2):170-7.
