[...]... children's health and wellbeing Measures of health status and QOL have the potential to provide valuable data that can be utilized to evaluate the impact of comprehensive health care for children with chronic health conditions 1 HEALTH STATUS AND QUALITY OF LIFE 3 Over and beyond research related to clinical applications of measures of health status and QOL, more basic research questions need to be addressed... Functional Skills Scale Based on these normative data, raw scores can be transformed into standard scores with a mean of 50 and a standard deviation of 10 The manual also provides benchmark data (standard score ranges, mean and standard deviation of scale scores) for three clinical samples The first sample included 46 children hospitalized at a pediatric trauma center The second sample consisted of 32 children... as: How can practitioners utilize assessments of health status and QOL in making treatment-related decisions and assessments? How do health status and QOL measures improve efficiency of assessment and clinical decision making? Another area of needed research concerning clinical application involves the use of health status and QOL measures to evaluate the impact of managed care and health services... sum of the indices A manual describing coding, scoring, and handling of missing data is available Standardization and Norms The HDL was administered to 70 children of depressed patients and 77 children of community adults Socioeconomic level of the sample was not described in the manual Normative data (means and standard deviations) are presented in the manual, but no clinical cutoff scores are offered... community and university general pediatric practices in an urban center Of the 113 parents, 45% were Caucasian, 21% were African American, 19% were Hispanic, 12% were Asian, and 4% were of other ethnicity The socioeconomic level of the sample was not described, and normative data (means and standard deviations) were not reported The FSQ was administered to a subsample (N = 47) of parents at 6 weeks and at... measure and other measures assumed to be similar to or different from the construct and are additional forms of construct validity PREFACE XV The presentation of each measure ends with a summary of strengths and weaknesses that synthesizes the previous information, and emphasizes applicability to pediatric settings Additional relevant references are also included Finally, each author of a measure was... normed on a national sample, standard scores have been established based on a school sample of 877 adolescents The school sample was 54% female and 88% African American The CHIP-CE was piloted on a sample of 247 mothers and children, and 55 fathers from medical centers and physician offices in an urban setting The revised measure was then tested in two urban medical settings, one on the east coast and one... (1989) Assessment of children's health status: Field test of new approaches Medical Care, 27, S54-S65 14 NAAR-KING, ELLIS, FREY Availability From the first author Catherine C Lewis, Ph.D., Department of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, University of California at San Francisco, 400 Parnassus Avenue, Room A 206, San Francisco, CA 94143-0314 Purpose The Functional Status Questionnaire (FSQ) is a modification of. .. disease-specific measures are not reviewed in detail, a reference table of available disease-specific measures is included at the end of applicable chapters The review of each measure is organized in the following format First, the key reference and information on how to obtain the measure are provided Second, a general statement about the purpose of the measure and a more detailed description of the measure are... Questinnaire (CHQ) was designed to measure physical, emotional, behavioral, and social well- being, building on the core concepts of available generic child health instruments The measure was developed using a tripartite model that advocates measuring each dimension along the parameters of status, disability, and personal evaluation The instrument is the result of the Child Health Assessment Project, a research . CONTENTS Neonatal Facial Coding System 48 Neonatal Infant Pain Scale 49 Observational Scale of Behavioral Distress 51 Oucher 53 Pediatric Pain Questionnaire 55 Waldron-Varni Pediatric Pain Coping. research concerning clinical application involves the use of health status and QOL measures to evaluate the impact of managed care and health services on children's health and . and well- being. Measures of health status and QOL have the potential to provide valuable data that can be utilized to evaluate the impact of comprehen- sive health care