title: Health-related quality of life of children and adolescents with mental disorders.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The aim was to assess the association of internalising and externalising pathology with the child's health-related quality of life (QoL), and to determine which child and environmental characteristics beyond pathology were related to poor QoL.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data was obtained for 120 children and adolescents (aged 6 to 18) commencing outpatient psychotherapy treatment. Parents and children (aged 11 years and older) filled out questionnaires. QoL was measured with the KIDSCREEN-27.
  
  
  RESULTS
  QoL was more strongly associated with internalising than externalising pathology according to both self- and parent report. Multiple regression analyses showed that beyond internalising and externalising pathology, gender, age, family functioning, functional impairment, and prior mental health treatment were associated with individual QoL scales.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The data underscored the relationship between mental pathology and impaired QoL even if potential item overlap was controlled for. This stresses the importance of extending therapy goals and outcome measures from mere pathology to measures of QoL in psychotherapy research particularly for patients with internalising pathology.
authors.forename: Katharina
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Weitkamp
authors.forename: Judith K
authors.initials: JK
authors.lastname: Daniels
authors.forename: Georg
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Romer
authors.forename: Silke
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wiegand-Grefe
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D002648:Child; D002652:Child Behavior; D015897:Comorbidity; D057186:Comparative Effectiveness Research; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006305:Health Status Indicators; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011613:Psychotherapy; D011788:Quality of Life; D012044:Regression Analysis; D057566:Self Report; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
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