Self-reported quality of life of adolescents with cerebral palsy: a cross-sectional and longitudinal analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with cerebral palsy who can self-report have similar quality of life (QoL) to their able-bodied peers. Is this similarity also found in adolescence? We examined how self-reported QoL of adolescents with cerebral palsy varies with impairment and compares with the general population, and how factors in childhood predict adolescent QoL.

Methods

We report QoL outcomes in a longitudinal follow-up and cross-sectional analysis of individuals included in the SPARCLE1 (childhood) and SPARCLE2 (adolescent) studies. In 2004 (SPARCLE1), a cohort of 818 children aged 8-12 years were randomly selected from population-based cerebral palsy registers in nine European regions. We gathered data from 500 participants about QoL with KIDSCREEN (ten domains); frequency of pain;

SUBMITTER: Colver A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4606972 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature