The lifestyle assessment questionnaire: an instrument to measure the impact of disability on the lives of children with cerebral palsy and their families

Summary Suitable measures of health and morbidity are less readily available for children than they are for adults. We present a measure, which is used to describe the impact of impairment and disability on the lives of children with cerebral palsy and their families. The development of this measure...

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Published inChild : care, health & development Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 473 - 486
Main Authors Mackie, P C, Jessen, E C, Jarvis, S N
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.1998
Subjects
Cerebral Palsy
Child
Children
Cost of Illness
Disabled Children
England
Family functioning
Family Health
Health Status Indicators
Humans
impact of disability
Life Style
Lifestyle
Measures
North East England
Reproducibility of Results
United Kingdom
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Summary:Summary Suitable measures of health and morbidity are less readily available for children than they are for adults. We present a measure, which is used to describe the impact of impairment and disability on the lives of children with cerebral palsy and their families. The development of this measure involved data collected from 691 children with cerebral palsy contained within the North‐East England Cerebral Palsy Register and born between 1960 and 1985. Uniquely, multidimensional scaling techniques were used to derive dimensions analogous with those described in the International Classification of Impairments, Disabilities, and Handicaps. We present the analyses undertaken to test the properties of the tool, which show that it is a reliable and valid measure of the disadvantages experienced by children with cerebral palsy.
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ISSN:0305-1862
1365-2214
DOI:10.1046/j.1365-2214.1998.00083.x