Measuring health-related quality of life in Hungarian children with heart disease: psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the Cardiac Module.

Objectives: The aim of the study was to investigate the psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) Generic Core Scales and Cardiac Module.

Methods: The PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the PedsQL 3.

Measuring health-related quality of life in Hungarian children attending a cardiology clinic with the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory.

The aim of the study was to evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of Hungarian children attending a pediatric cardiology outpatient unit with the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) questionnaire. The PedsQL Generic Core Scales and Cardiac Module were administered to 254 families including 195 children during a pediatric cardiology outpatient visit, and 525 families including 373 children from the general population were examined by the PedsQL Generic Core Scale by a postal survey. The relationships between PedsQL scores and patient characteristics were analyzed.

[Hungarian validation of the cardiac module of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory].

Unlabelled: The authors report the validation process of the cardiac module of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL ) into Hungarian.

Background: The PedsQL which is a modular instrument to evaluate health-related quality of life (HRQL ) in children and adolescents of ages 2-18 years, comes up to the current professional requirements at a high level. There is no report on health-related quality of life measure in Hungary which was performed among children with heart disease.