title: Quality of life in adolescents with inflammatory bowel disease and their parents--comparison with healthy controls.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are chronic diseases with a significant impact on quality of life (QoL). The aim of the study was to examine the QoL in children with IBD and their families, depression and anxiety for both the children and their parents.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were 29 adolescents with IBD (19 individuals suffered from the Crohn disease, another ten had ulcerative colitis) and 40 healthy controls of the same age (13-16 years). The probands and their parents completed questionnaires measuring the quality of life (KidScreen-10, PedsQL), depression (CDI, BDI-II), and anxiety (SAD, BAI).
  
  
  RESULTS
  The QoL measured by questionnaires did not differ between the adolescent participants, but it was significantly lower in the parents of the children with IBD than in the parents of the healthy controls. The parents of the IBD children scored lower in the Family Impact Module Total Scale Score and the parental Health-Related QoL Summary Score. The fathers of the IBD children also had a lower level of the Family Functioning Summary Score. There wasn't any difference in the levels of anxiety and depressive symptoms among the IBD adolescents and the controls.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The parents of the children with IBD experience lower QoL than the parents with the healthy children. The children with IBD show similar symptoms of depression, anxiety, and QoL as the healthy controls.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University Olomouc, and University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Jelenova
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University Olomouc, and University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Prasko
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University Olomouc, and University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Marie
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ociskova
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Eva
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Karaskova
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University Olomouc, and University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Martina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hunkova
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jana
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kolarova
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vydra
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University Olomouc, and University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Michaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Holubova
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Outpatient Department, Bratislava, Slovakia.
authors.forename: Radovan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Hruby
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University Olomouc, and University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Klara
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Latalova
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University Palacky Olomouc, University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Vladimir
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Mihal
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000523:psychology*; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*