title: The Slovak version of the Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) and the Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ).
abstract: We report herein the results of the cross-cultural adaptation and validation into the Slovak language of the parent's version of two health related quality of life instruments. The Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) is a disease specific health instrument that measures functional ability in daily living activities in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA). The Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ) is a generic health instrument designed to capture the physical and psychosocial well-being of children independently from the underlying disease. The Slovak CHAQ CHQ were fully validated with 3 forward and 3 backward translations. A total of 119 subjects were enrolled: 52 patients with JIA (15% systemic onset, 37% polyarticular onset, 10% extended oligoarticular subtype, and 38% persistent oligoarticular subtype) and 67 healthy children. The CHAQ clinically discriminated between healthy subjects and JIA patients, with the systemic, polyarticular and extended oligoarticular subtypes having a higher degree of disability, pain, and a lower overall well-being when compared to their healthy peers. Also the CHQ clinically discriminated between healthy subjects and JIA patients, with the systemic onset, polyarticular onset and extended oligoarticular subtypes having a lower physical and psychosocial well-being when compared to their healthy peers. In conclusion the Slovak version of the CHAQ-CHQ is a reliable, and valid tool for the functional, physical and psychosocial assessment of children with JIA.
authors.affiliation: Faculty Hospital, Pediatric Rheumatology Unit, Trieda SNP 1, SK-040 01 Kosice, Slovakia. richard@dodo.sk
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Vesely
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ruperto
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Vargova
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lescisinova
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Mozolova
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Koskova
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Macejkova
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Hyrdelova
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martini
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001171:Arthritis, Juvenile / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005260:Female; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011594:Psychometrics; D011788:Quality of Life; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D018154:Slovakia; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires