ReviewBMC pediatrics2020
Assessing quality of life in psychosocial and mental health disorders in children: a comprehensive overview and appraisal of generic health related quality of life measures.
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17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Patient-reported outcome measures used to improve youth mental health services: a systematic review.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2023Pooled it
- Usefulness of Interventions Using a Smartphone Cognitive Behavior Therapy Application for Children With Mental Health Disorders: Prospective, Single-Arm, Uncontrolled Clinical Trial.JMIR formative research · 2025Trial
- Quality of Life and Symptoms of Anxiety and Depression Among Patients With Cancer: Insights From a Tertiary Care Hospital.Medical science monitor : international medical journal of experimental and clinical research · 2026Article
- Digital psychosocial follow-up for survivors of childhood critical illness: protocol for a systematic literature review.Systematic reviews · 2025Article
- Treatments with versus without medication for children with behavioural difficulties in clinical practice: an economic evaluation with observational data.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Observational
- Reciprocal impact of mental health and quality of life in children and adolescents-a cross-lagged panel analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Comparing the Psychometric Performance of Generic Paediatric Health-Related Quality of Life Instruments in Children and Adolescents with ADHD, Anxiety and/or Depression.PharmacoEconomics · 2024Article
- A Scoping Review of Mental Health and Wellbeing Outcome Measures for Children and Young People: Implications for Children in Out-of-home Care.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2024Article
- Association between screen time and physical activity on mental health among preschoolers: a cross-sectional study from Southwest China.BMC public health · 2024Observational
- Unraveling the core symptoms of mental health in senior grade three students- a network analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Quality of life, health perception, learning motivation and behavior of adolescents in an educational institution.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2024Observational
- Impact of a pediatric primary care health-coaching program on change in health-related quality of life in children with mental health problems: results of the PrimA-QuO cohort study.BMC primary care · 2023Article
- Use of KIDSCREEN health-related quality of life instruments in the general population of children and adolescents: a scoping review.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2023Article
- Editorial: A moving target: exploring if, when, how, and why promoting quality of life counts among children and adolescents during COVID-19 pandemic.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Factors Associated with Discrepancy of Child-Adolescent/Parent Reported Quality of Life in the Era of COVID-19.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Association of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis With Adolescent Quality of Life.JAMA network open · 2022Observational
- Towards standardization of economic evaluation research in the youth psychosocial care sector: A broad consultation in the Netherlands.Global & regional health technology assessmentArticle
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Abstract
backgroundMental health problems often arise in childhood and adolescence and can have detrimental effects on people's quality of life (QoL). Therefore, it is of great importance for clinicians, policymakers and researchers to adequately measure QoL in children. With this review, we aim to provide an overview of existing generic measures of QoL suitable for economic evaluations in children with mental health problems.
methodsFirst, we undertook a meta-review of QoL instruments in which we identified all relevant instruments. Next, we performed a systematic review of the psychometric properties of the identified instruments. Lastly, the results were summarized in a decision tree.
resultsThis review provides an overview of these 22 generic instruments available to measure QoL in children with psychosocial and or mental health problems and their psychometric properties. A systematic search into the psychometric quality of these instruments found 195 suitable papers, of which 30 assessed psychometric quality in child and adolescent mental health.
conclusionsWe found that none of the instruments was perfect for use in economic evaluation of child and adolescent mental health care as all instruments had disadvantages, ranging from lack of psychometric research, no proxy version, not being suitable for young children, no age-specific value set for children under 18, to insufficient focus on relevant domains (e.g. social and emotional domains).
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