Generic Quality of Life Measures for Children and Adolescents
The purpose of this chapter was to review generic measures of child and adolescent (ages 18 or less) quality of life (QOL) that have been applied in at least two populations (e.g., age groups, nationalities, etc.) and have yielded strong psychometric prop
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Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2424 Relevance of Quality of Life Measurement to Health Care . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2424 The Challenge of Quality of Life Measurement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2426
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Methodology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2426 Generic Measures Including both Objective and Subjective Aspects of QOL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2427 Comprehensive Quality of Life Scale-School Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2427 Quality of Life Profile: Adolescent Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2428 Generic Subjective QOL Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2429 Youth Quality of Life-Research Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2429 Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2431
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Future Directions for Research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2433 Quality of Life Measurement: How many Domains can and Should be Measured? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2434
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National Adolescent Indexes to Match Objective and Subjective QOL Data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2435 Limitations of the CWI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2436 Conclusions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2436
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Summary Points . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2436 Appendix A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2438
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Generic Quality of Life Measures for Children and Adolescents
Abstract: The purpose of this chapter was to review generic measures of child and adolescent (ages 18 or less) quality of life (QOL) that have been applied in at least two populations (e.g., age groups, nationalities, etc.) and have yielded strong psychometric properties. The chapter begins with a discussion regarding the relevance of quality of life measurement
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