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Quality of Life in Childhood Epilepsy Questionnaire (QOLCE)

 
Parent Form
 

Author(s)

Sabaz Mark

 

Purpose

  • Pathology:

Nervous system diseases

  • Disease:

Epilepsy

  • Objective:

To assess the impact of childhood epilepsy and its treatment on life function

  • Population for intended use:

Pediatrics

 
 

Characteristics

  • Type of instrument:

Health-Related Quality of Life - HRQL (incl. health status)

  • Administration mode:

Proxy-administered

  • Number of items:

77

  • Recall/Observation period:

During the past 4 weeks

 
 

Language(s)

  • Original language:

English for Australia

  • List of existing translations:

The translations listed below may not have undergone a full linguistic validation process and may require further work to be suitable for use in a study.
This list of translations is subject to constant changes, therefore please check the status of translations with MAPI Research Trust / the developers / copyright holders / distributors.

QOLCE

Arabic
English for the USA
Polish for Poland
 

Bibliographic reference(s) of the original questionnaire

Cairns DR, Sabaz M, Lawson JA, Nheu N, Bleasel AF, Bye AM. Development, use and planned use of the QOLCE: the Quality of Life in Childhood Epilepsy questionnaire. QoL Newsletter 2001;27:17-18 (Full text article)


Sabaz M, Cairns DR, Lawson JA, Nheu N, Bleasel AF, Bye AM. Validation of a new quality of life measure for children with epilepsy. Epilepsia 2000; 41:765-74

Last update: March 2011

Last update in collaboration with the author: June 2004