Assessing health-related quality of life in chronically ill children with the German KINDL: first psychometric and content analytical results
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Assessing health-related quality of life in chronically ill children with the German KINDL: first psychometric and content analytical results. / Ravens-Sieberer, Ulrike; Bullinger, M.
In: QUAL LIFE RES, Vol. 7, No. 5, 5, 1998, p. 399-407.Research output: SCORING: Contribution to journal › SCORING: Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Assessing health-related quality of life in chronically ill children with the German KINDL: first psychometric and content analytical results
AU - Ravens-Sieberer, Ulrike
AU - Bullinger, M
PY - 1998
Y1 - 1998
N2 - Health-related quality of life is increasingly being considered as a relevant end-point and outcome criterion in evaluating the effects of medical treatment. While in adults quality of life instruments have been developed in terms of generic as well as disease-specific measures, quality of life assessment and children is a relatively new area. The current paper describes the application of a German generic quality of life instrument for children (the KINDL) in a group of 45 chronically ill children suffering from diabetes or asthma in comparison to 45 age- and gender-matched healthy children. The results of psychometric testing in these populations showed that the German KINDL is a reliable, valid and practical instrument to assess the health-related quality of life of children which should be supplemented by disease-specific modules and needs to be further tested in clinical populations.
AB - Health-related quality of life is increasingly being considered as a relevant end-point and outcome criterion in evaluating the effects of medical treatment. While in adults quality of life instruments have been developed in terms of generic as well as disease-specific measures, quality of life assessment and children is a relatively new area. The current paper describes the application of a German generic quality of life instrument for children (the KINDL) in a group of 45 chronically ill children suffering from diabetes or asthma in comparison to 45 age- and gender-matched healthy children. The results of psychometric testing in these populations showed that the German KINDL is a reliable, valid and practical instrument to assess the health-related quality of life of children which should be supplemented by disease-specific modules and needs to be further tested in clinical populations.
U2 - 10.1023/a:1008853819715
DO - 10.1023/a:1008853819715
M3 - SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz
VL - 7
SP - 399
EP - 407
JO - QUAL LIFE RES
JF - QUAL LIFE RES
SN - 0962-9343
IS - 5
M1 - 5
ER -
