KIDSCREEN manual

The official KIDSCREEN manual was published in November 2006. You can order it directly at the publishers site Pabst Science Publishers.

The KIDSCREEN Group Europe

The KIDSCREEN Questionnaires
Quality of life questionnaires for children and adolescents

Quality of life (QoL) assessment in children and adolescents needs to be age-appropriate and to address health-related concerns to identify children and adolescents who are at risk from health problems, and to de-termine the burden imposed by a particular disease or disability. The KIDSCREEN approach has tackled the challenges of international paedi-atric QoL research by providing measures that are applicable for chil-dren and adolescents as well as their parents and that can be used to monitor and evaluate health-related QoL in public-health surveys, in clinical studies, and in research projects.

The generic KIDSCREEN question-naires were developed in the context of  a  European  cross-cultural  repre- sentative health survey in order to be able to compare health-related QoL across different countries and in order to be able to monitor the health status of children and adolescents. The KIDSCREEN group used a simul-taneous approach to develop its cross-cultural instrument, which en-sures the cross-cultural applicability of the KIDSCREEN measures, making them both conceptually and linguisti-cally appropriate for use in many dif-ferent countries. The current hand-book describes all relevant user in-formation necessary for applying the KIDSCREEN questionnaires, e.g. psy-chometrics, norm data for group and individual comparisons, and in-structions on how to score the instrument and how to interpret the results.

The authors:
Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer, Angela Gosch, Michael Erhart, Ursula von Rueden, Jennifer Nickel, Bärbel-Maria Kurth (co-ordinating centre Germany); Wolfgang Duer, Kristina Fuerth (Austria); Ladislav Czemy (Czech Republic); Pascal Auquier, Marie-Claude Simeoni, Stephane Robitail (France); Yannis Tountas, Christina Dimitrakaki (Greece); Agnes Czimbalmos, Anna Aszmann (Hungary); Jean Kilroe, Celia Keenaghan (Ireland); Jeanet Bruil, Symone Detmar, Eric Verrips (The Netherlands); Joanna Mazur, Ewa Mierzejewska (Poland); Mick Power, Clare Atherton, Katy Phillips (United Kingdom); Luis Rajmil, Silvina Berra, Cristian Tebé, Michael Herdman, Jordi Alonso (Spain); Curt Hagquist (Sweden); Thomas Abel, Bernhard Cloetta, Corinna Bisegger, Claudia Farley (Switzerland); Jacob Bjorner, Stef van Buuren, Michael Rigby, Alan Tennant, John Ware and Elizabeth Waters (Advisory Board)
The KIDSCREEN Group Europe

232 pages, Handbook incl. CD-Rom
Price: 40,- €