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Kidscreen (QOL)

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Purpose
Assesses children’s and adolescents’ subjective health and well-being. Also useful an an outcome measure Healthy and chronically ill children and adolescents aged from 8 to 18 years.

Assesment Type

None

Patient Group

Cerebral Palsy | Musculoskeletal | Neurodisability (Other) | Neuromuscular | Other | Respiratory

Age Group

Children (3-12 years) | Adolescents (13-17 years)

ICF domain

None

Area of assessment

Quality of Life

Key description

Description
KIDSCREEN-52 allows detailed profile information for ten HRQoL dimensions
KIDSCREEN-27 items derived from the 52-item version. Allows detailed profile information for five HRQoL dimensions
KIDSCREEN-10 Index items derived from 27-item version, global HRQoL score for monitoring and screening uses
Available in child and adolescent as well as carers.
Reliability / validity
Overall satisfactory results….
KIDSCREEN instruments

https://www.kidscreen.org/app/download/5873130664/KIDSCREEN+instruments_description_English.pdf?t=1394699546

Strengths / weaknesses
Can be completed face to face or mailed questionnaires.

Cost

Free

Equipment required

Questionnaire

Training required

N/A

Considerations & references

Free Registration required
https://www.kidscreen.org/english/conditions-of-use/registration/

https://www.kidscreen.org/english/questionnaires/implementation-manual/


References/ Links
https://synapse.koreamed.org/articles/1020436


Time to complete
Up to 20 minutes depending on which version you are using
Comments
adapted for use in many languages
Existing language versions - kidscreen.org

https://www.kidscreen.org/english/language-versions/existing-language-versions/

 

 

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