Recurrent pain and health related quality of life in young schoolchildren

Publicerad:2008-04-14

Författare

Solveig Petersen

Handledare

Docent Erik Bergström, Umeå universitet, professor Bruno Hägglöf, Umeå universitet

Opponent

Docent Sven Bremberg, Karolinska Institutet

Disputerat vid

UmU – Umeå universitet

Disputationsdag

2008-04-11

Titel (eng)

Recurrent pain and health related quality of life in young schoolchildren

Institution

Inst. för klinisk vetenskap, enheterna för pediatrik och barn- och ungdomspsykiatri

Forskningsmiljö

UmU – Umeå universitet

Recurrent pain and health related quality of life in young schoolchildren

The objectives in of this thesis were 1) to describe the occurrence and cooccurrence of recurrent pain (headache, stomach-ache, and backache) in young schoolchildren; 2) to describe Health Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) in these children, from the perspective of the child, 3) to examine the psychometric properties of the PedsQL 4.0, Generic Core Scale, an instrument for measuring HRQoL in children.