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Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ Generic Core Scales Short Form 15 (PedsQL™ Generic Core Scales Short Form 15)

Varni JW

ProQolid

Last update: November 2018

Basic description

Conditions of use

The PedsQL™ Generic Core Scales Short Form 15 is a specific module of the PedsQL™

Existing versions: Standard and Acute versions for Toddler (2-4 years of age), Young Child (5-7 years of age), Child (8-12 years of age), Adolescent (13-18 years of age), Young Adult (18-25 years of age) and Adult (>26 years of age)

Authors

Varni JW

Copyright
Copyright © 1998 JW Varni, Ph.D.
Objective
To measure generic health-related quality of life. Applicable for healthy school and community populations, as well as patient populations with acute and chronic health conditions
Therapeutic area
  • Generic
Therapeutic indication

All

Type of Clinical Outcome Assessment (COA)
  • obsro ObsRO
  • pro PRO
Original language(s)
  • English for the USA
Bibliographic reference(s) of the original questionnaire

Chan, K.S., Mangione-Smith, R., Burwinkle, T.M., Rosen, M., & Varni, J.W. (2005). The PedsQL™: Reliability and validity of the Short-Form Generic Core Scales and Asthma Module. Medical Care, 43, 256-265.

Lin, C.Y., Luh, W.M., Yang, A.L., Su, C.T., Wang, J.D., & Ma, H.I. (2012). Psychometric properties and gender invariance of the Chinese version of the self-report Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Version 4.0: Short Form is acceptable. Quality of Life Research, 21, 177-182.

Chen, X., Origasa, H., Ichida, F., Kamibeppu, K., & Varni, J.W. (2007). Reliability and validity of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ (PedsQL™) Short Form 15 Generic Core Scales in Japan. Quality of Life Research, 16, 1239-1249.