KIDSCREEN: Screening for and promotion of health related quality of life in children and adolescents - a European public health perspective

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 99.0822

Key words (English)

Health related quality of life; children; adolescents; instrument development; public health;
Life Sciences; Medicine; Health; Scientific Research; Social Aspects

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: QLG4-2000-00751

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 1.1.8 Generic R&D activities

Short description (German)

Siehe Abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Universität Bern
Institut für Sozial- und Präventivmedizin
Abteilung für Gesundheitsforschung

Partners and International Organizations (German)

Robert Koch-Institut Berlin (D); School of Public Health of Catalonia, University of Barcelona (E); TNO Prevention and Health, Leiden (NL); Ludwig Bolzmann-Institute for Sociology of Health and Medicine, Universität Wien (A); Departement of Psychiatry, University of Edinburgh (UK); Departement of Public Health, Universitary Hospital of Marseille (F)

Abstract (German)

In health surveys as well as on European level little information exists about the perceived health, i.e. quality of life, of children and adolescents in the community. The project aims at a co-operative European development of a standardised screening instruments for children's quality of life which will be used in representative national and European health surveys. It also aims at identifying children at risk in terms of their subjective health to suggest early intervention possibilities. In addition the project addresses the impact of chronic health conditions on quality of life in children/adolescents including social and behavioural factors as determinants perceived health. After the instrument development phase, the standardised measures of QoL and their determinants will be used in representative population surveys in the participating countries and will be implemented and evaluated in national health services.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 99.0822