BACKGROUND The pediatric quality of life (QoL) questionnaire, the child-rated Kid-KINDL, has wording effects. However, no studies have examined for its parallel questionnaire, the parent-proxy Kid-KINDL. This study aimed to examine the psychometric properties and wording effects of the parent-proxy Kid-KINDL. METHODS Parents with 8- to 12-year-old children (n = 247) completed the parent-proxy...

BACKGROUND The KINDL questionnaire is frequently used to evaluate quality of life (QOL) and the impacts of health conditions on children's everyday living. The objectives of this study were to assess the reproducibility and construct validity of the Serbian KINDL for QOL assessments in healthy children and adolescents. METHODS Five hundred and sixty-four healthy children and adolescents compl...

OBJECTIVE Sense of coherence (SOC) is a resource for health and quality of life (QoL) in adults. The aim of this investigation was to prospectively evaluate the association between SOC and QoL in adolescents with congenital heart defects (CHDs). METHODS This is an observational study among 770 adolescents aged 14 to 17 years from a national CHD register. SOC was measured at baseline with the ...

OBJECTIVE Obtain a Portuguese version of the Kiddo-KINDL questionnaire that is semantic and culturally equivalent to the original version. METHODS For the adaptation, the methodology of direct and inverse translation was used. The questionnaire was applied to groups from three schools in Uberlândia, MG - Brazil, and comprised of 378 children and adolescents aged between 12 and 16. 16% of the ...

The objective of this study was to assess the reliability and validity of a Nepalese version of the Kiddo-KINDL to measure Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) in adolescents. We collected data from 204 students between 13 to 16 years old from four secondary schools in Lalitpur district, Nepal. The students answered a Nepalese version of the Kiddo-KINDL and the Center for Epidemiological Stud...

how to cite this article: rojhani shirazi m, tonekaboni sh, azargashb e, derakhshannia m, aghdasta e. exploring the psychometric properties of the farsi version of quality of life kindl questionnaire for 4-7 year-old children in iran. iran j child neurol. spring 2016; 10(2):42-52. abstract objective the aim of this study was to translate and validate the psychometric properties of the quality o...

BACKGROUND Health-related quality of life (HRQL) outcome measures are complex and for further application in clinical practice and health service research the meaning of their scorings should be studied in depth. The aim of this study was to increase the interpretability of the Spanish VSP-A and KINDL-R scores. METHODS A representative sample of adolescents aged 12 to 18 years old was selecte...

The CareRabbit has been introduced as a technological innovation in the care for children, enabling family and friends to stay in touch while the child is hospitalized. This study addresses influence of this innovation on the wellbeing of the children, and uses the validated KINDL questionnaire, eliciting information from children and parents at the end of hospitalization. A baseline and an exp...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to translate and validate the psychometric properties of the Quality of Life Kindl questionnaire. MATERIALS & METHODS Parents of 4-7 yr-old healthy and ill children referred to Mofid Children Hospital in Tehran in 2013, Iran were sampled randomly in two groups each of which 130 people. After translation, the questionnaie's validity and reliability was evalu...