Synonyms
Definition
The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory or PedsQL is a measure of childhood health-related quality of life (HRQoL). The measure can be used with healthy children and adolescents as well as those with acute or chronic health conditions. The PedsQL™ measurement model integrates both generic and disease-specific modules into one system.
Description
The development and use of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measurement in pediatric healthcare is still at an early stage when compared to the adult field (De Civita et al., 2005); however, there has been an exponential increase over the past 20 years in the number of measures available for use with children. As it is not appropriate to apply measures of HRQoL developed for adults to a pediatric population, it is essential that child-centered measures designed specifically to assess the issues of most relevance to children are used when assessing child HRQoL.
One...
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
De Civita, M., Regier, D., Alamgir, A., Anis, A., Fitzgerald, M. J., & Marra, C. A. (2005). Evaluating health-related quality-of-life studies in paediatric populations: Some conceptual, methodological and developmental considerations and recent applications. PharmacoEconomics, 23, 659–685.
Upton, P., Lawford, J., & Eiser, C. (2008). Parent-child agreement across child health-related quality-of-life instruments: A review of the literature. Quality of Life Research, 17, 895–913.
Varni, J. W., Burwinkle, T. M., Jacobs, J. R., Gottschalk, M., Kaufman, F., & Jones, K. L. (2003). The PedsQL in type 1 and type 2 diabetes: Reliability and validity of the pediatric quality-of-life inventory generic core scales and type 1 diabetes module. Diabetes Care, 26, 631–663.
Varni, J. W., Burwinkle, T. M., Rapoff, M. A., Kamps, J. L., & Olson, N. (2004). The PedsQL™ in pediatric asthma: Reliability and validity of the pediatric quality-of-life inventory™ generic core scales and asthma module. Journal of Behavioural Medicine, 27(3), 297–318.
Varni, J. W., Burwinkle, T. M., Seid, M., & Skarr, D. (2003). The PedsQL™ 4.0 as a pediatric population health measure: Feasibility, reliability, and validity. Ambulatory Pediatrics, 3, 329–341.
Varni, J. W., Burwinkle, T. M., Sherman, S. A., Hanna, K., Berrin, S. J., Malcarne, V. L., et al. (2005). Health-related quality-of-life of children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: Hearing the voices of the children. Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology, 47, 592–597.
Varni, J. W., Seid, M., & Kurtin, P. (2001). The PedsQL™ 4.0: Reliability and validity of the pediatric quality-of-life inventory™ version 4.0 generic core scales in healthy and patient populations. Medical Care, 39(8), 800–812.
Varni, J. W., Burwinkle, T. M., Katz, E. R., Meeske, K., & Dickinson, P. (2002). The PedsQL™ in pediatric cancer: Reliability and validity of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ Generic Core Scales, Multidimensionl Fatighe Scale, and cancer module. Cancer, 94, 2090–2106.
Varni, J. W., Seid, M., Smith Knight, T., Burwinkle, T., Brown, J., & Szer, I. S. (2002). The PedsQLTM in pediatric rheumatology. Reliability, validity, and responsiveness of the pediatric quality-of-life inventoryTM generic core scales and rheumatology module. Arthritis and Rheumatism, 46(3), 714–725.
WHO. (1948). Preamble to the World Health Organization Constitution. Geneva.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
About this entry
Cite this entry
Upton, P. (2014). Pediatric Quality of Life InventoryTM 4.0. In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_2114
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_2114
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-94-007-0752-8
Online ISBN: 978-94-007-0753-5
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law