Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire

Name of Questionnaire

The Pediatric Asthma Quality of Life Questionnaire

Description

Disease-specific questionnaire available in both interviewer and self-administered formats, designed for children aged 7 to 17 years of age. Includes three individualized questions, in which the patient identifies activities which are limited because of asthma. The patient is asked at each subsequent visit how much s/he has been bothered by each of these three activities.

Developer

EF Juniper, GH Guyatt, DH Feeny, PJ Ferrie, LE Griffith, M Townsend

Address

Elizabeth Juniper MCSP Msc
20 Marcuse Fields
Bosham, West Sussex
PO18 8NA, England
Tel: +44 1243 572124; Fax: +44 1243 573680

E-mail

juniper@QolTech.co.uk

URL

http://www.qoltech.co.uk/

Cost & availability

Yes; contact E. Juniper for permission to use the instrument

Administration

Interviewer, self

Time to complete

10 minutes

Number of items

23

Domains & categories

3

Name of categories/domains

Symptoms (10 items), activity limitations (5 items--3 are individualized), emotional function (8 items)

Scaling of items

7-point Likert scale

Scoring

All items are weighted equally. Mean score is calculated across all items within each domain. Overall score is the mean across all items.

Reliability

Validity

Construct validity: significant correlations between domains and clinical measures (FEV1, PEFR, B-agonist use) and domains and feeling thermometer scores ¹ .

Responsiveness

Reported ¹

Minimally important difference

Reflected by a change in score of approximately 0.5 on a 7 point scale ¹

Research use

Reported ^{2 , 3}

Clinical use

Not reported.

Language

Original: English (Canada)

More than 30 translations are available; please see Professor Juniper's website for a complete list.

References

1. Juniper EF, Guyatt GH, Feeny DH, Ferrie PJ, Griffith LE, Townsend M. Measuring quality of life in children with asthma. Qual Life Res 1996;5:35-46.
2. Guyatt GH, Juniper EF, Griffith LE, Feeny DH, Ferrie PJ. Children and adult perceptions of childhood asthma. Pediatrics 1997;99(2):165-8.
3. Juniper EF, Guyatt GH, Feeny DH, Griffith LE, Ferrie PJ. Minimum skills required by children to complete health-related quality of life instruments for asthma: comparison of measurement properties. Eur Respir J 1997;10(10):2285-94.

Date of information

March 1999

Comments from developer

Yes (June 1998)