Health-related quality of life measurement in pediatric clinical practice: an appraisal and precept for future research and application

JW Varni, TM Burwinkle, MM Lane - Health and quality of life outcomes, 2005 - Springer
Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measurement has emerged as an important health
outcome in clinical trials, clinical practice improvement strategies, and healthcare services …

Annual Research Review: Health anxiety in children and adolescents—developmental aspects and cross‐generational influences

CU Rask, CS Duholm, CM Poulsen… - Journal of Child …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Health anxiety involves excessive worries about one's health along with beliefs one has an
illness or may contract a serious disease. Concerning evidence suggests that health anxiety …

Health-related quality of life of severely obese children and adolescents

JB Schwimmer, TM Burwinkle, JW Varni - Jama, 2003 - jamanetwork.com
Context One in 7 US children and adolescents is obese, yet little is known about their health-
related quality of life (QOL). Objective To examine the health-related QOL of obese children …

Failure and delay in initial treatment contact after first onset of mental disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication

PS Wang, P Berglund, M Olfson… - Archives of general …, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
Context An understudied crucial step in the help-seeking process is making prompt initial
contact with a treatment provider after first onset of a mental disorder. Objective To provide …

[HTML][HTML] Delay and failure in treatment seeking after first onset of mental disorders in the World Health Organization's World Mental Health Survey Initiative

PS Wang, M Angermeyer, G Borges, R Bruffaerts… - World …, 2007 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Data are presented on patterns of failure and delay in making initial treatment contact after
first onset of a mental disorder in 15 countries in the World Health Organization (WHO)'s …

Parent proxy-report of their children's health-related quality of life: an analysis of 13,878 parents' reliability and validity across age subgroups using the PedsQL™ 4.0 …

JW Varni, CA Limbers, TM Burwinkle - Health and quality of life outcomes, 2007 - Springer
Background Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measurement has emerged as an
important health outcome in clinical trials, clinical practice improvement strategies, and …

Health-related quality of life of overweight and obese children

J Williams, M Wake, K Hesketh, E Maher, E Waters - Jama, 2005 - jamanetwork.com
ContextThe negative effects of childhood overweight and obesity on quality of life (QOL)
have been shown in clinical samples but not yet in population-based community samples …

Agreement between child self-report and caregiver-proxy report for symptoms and functioning of children undergoing cancer treatment

JW Mack, M McFatrich, JS Withycombe… - JAMA …, 2020 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Adult patients are considered the best reporters of their own health-related
quality of life (HRQOL). Self-report in pediatrics has been challenged by a limited array of …

The pediatric quality of life inventory: measuring pediatric health-related quality of life from the perspective of children and their parents

JW Varni, CA Limbers - Pediatric Clinics of North America, 2009 - Elsevier
Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has been recognized as an important outcome, some
contend the most important outcome for children's health care interventions. The PedsQL …

Development of six PROMIS pediatrics proxy-report item banks

DE Irwin, HE Gross, BD Stucky, D Thissen… - Health and quality of life …, 2012 - Springer
Background Pediatric self-report should be considered the standard for measuring patient
reported outcomes (PRO) among children. However, circumstances exist when the child is …