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Health, quality of life and health psychology

Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory.

PedsQL

What it measures
Paediatric HRQoL across Physical, Emotional, Social and School functioning (Generic Core Scales); self- and parent-proxy report by age band
Length and format
23 (Generic Core Scales 4.0). 5-point Likert (never to almost always); transformed 0-100 (higher = better) (self-report questionnaire)
Language versions
100+ languages via the Mapi/PedsQL translation program
Normative data
No normative data held in our reference library for this instrument. That is a statement about our library, not about the published literature.
Licence
copyrighted - commercial

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Reference
Varni, J. W., Seid, M., & Kurtin, P. S. (2001). PedsQL 4.0: reliability and validity of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Version 4.0 Generic Core Scales. Medical Care, 39(8), 800-812.

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