Health-related quality of life of children and their parents 6 months after children's critical illness.

ABSTRACT: PURPOSE:This study aimed to examine health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of children and their parents, 6 months after the child's admission to the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU). Associations between parents' reports regarding HRQoL of their child and of themselves were investigated, as well as associations between children's baseline variables and their parent-reported HRQoL outcomes. METHODS:This is a secondary analysis of cross-sectional data collected in a group of children who participated in the PEPaNIC trial. Six months after discharge from the PICU, parents of critically ill children completed the Infant-Toddler Quality of Life Questionnaire (ITQOL, for age 0-3 years) or the Child Health Questionnaire-Parent Form 50 (CHQ-PF50, for age 4-18 years), which are parallel questi

SUBMITTER: Hordijk J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6962289 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature