Assessing children's quality of life in health and social services
Meeting challenges and adding value
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12896944 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanne M Skevington (0000-0001-6861-5018, Life University, corresponding author), Fiona Gillison (0000-0002-6461-7638, Life University) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 41-50 |
| Publication date | 2006-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Children s Services (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1746-6660 • E-ISSN: 2042-8677 |
| Publisher | Emerald Publishing Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1108/17466660200600013 |
| OpenAlex | W2080758002 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 22 |
The measurement of children's quality of life has an important role to play in improving their experience of health and social services, and in promoting a child‐centred approach to service provision. This article provides a rationale for both the development of robust quality of life measures specifically for children and also the use of these measures in assessing the effectiveness of treatments and policy changes. It highlights recent advances in the development of quality of life measures and provides examples of two instruments that have incorporated these steps to produce reliable and valid measures that are not only comprehensible to children of different age groups, but also meaningful to parents and health professionals. The challenge of matching statistically significant change in quality of life to changes of perceived importance to the individual is also discussed in the light of the advantages to be gained from the increased uptake within health and social care of quality of life measures for children
Economic growth · Economics · Health care · Matching (statistics · Quality (philosophy · Quality of life (healthcare · Social care · Value (mathematics · Applied Psychology · Child and Adolescent Health · Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life · Computer Science · Family Support in Illness · Medicine · Nursing · Psychology · Gerontology
KIDSCREEN-52 quality-of-life measure for children and adolescents
Development of the WHOQOL
Determining a minimal important change in a disease-specific quality of life questionnaire
Estimating clinically significant differences in quality of life outcomes
The use of quality of life data in clinical practice
Advancing cross-cultural research on quality of life
Development and pilot-testing of a health-related quality of life chronic generic module for children and adolescents with chronic health conditions
Well‐being
The use of patient reported outcome measures in routine clinical practice
Predicting young children's quality of life
The Use of the Shye's Systemic Quality Life Model in the Examination of Child Protection Officers Decision
| Unique citing works | 4 |
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| Citations per year | 0.22 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2010 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |