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Pediatric Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire

Name of Questionnaire

Pediatric Rhinoconjunctivitis Quality of Life Questionnaire (PRQLQ)

Description

Disease-specific health-related quality of life instrument developed by E. Juniper and colleagues focusing on physical and emotional impact of disease in children 6 to 12 years of age.

Developer

Juniper EF, Howland WC, Roberts NB, Thompson AK, King DR¹

Address

Elizabeth Juniper MCSP Msc
Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
McMaster University Medical Centre
1200 Main Street West
Hamilton, Ontario L8N 3Z5 Canada

E-mail

juniper@qoltech.co.uk

Web site

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

Cost & availability

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

Administration

Interviewer

Time to complete

10-15 minutes for first administration; 8-10 for subsequent administrations

Number of items

Domains & categories

5 domains

Name of categories/domains

Nose symptoms, eye symptoms, practical problems, non-nose/eye symptoms, activity limitations

Scaling of items

7-point Likert scale

Scoring

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

Reliability

Test-Retest/Reproducibility: Reported¹
Internal Consistency: Not reported

Validity

Established by comparison to conventional clinical symptom measures¹

Responsiveness

Reported¹: minimal important difference determined to be 0.5. Change of 1.0 represents a moderate change; change greater than 2.0 represents large change.

Minimally important difference

Reflected by a change in score of 0.5 on a seven point scale.¹

Research use

Not reported

Clinical use

Not reported

Language

Original: English (Canada)

Translations: Dutch, English (U.K.), French (France, Québec), Spanish for North America (Cuban U.S. & Puerto Rican; Mexican U.S.)

References

Juniper EF, Howland WC, Roberts NB, Thompson AK, King DR. Measuring quality of life in children with rhinoconjunctivitis. J Allergy Clin Immunol February 1998; Vol. 101, No. 2: 163-170.

Date of information

July 2000