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The Child Health Questionnaire™ (CHQ) is an internationally recognized general health-related quality of life (HRQOL) instrument that has been rigorously translated into more than 78 languages and standardized for use with children ages 5–18 to assess the child’s physical, emotional, and social well-being. There is an 87-item full-length child self-report version (CHQ-CF87) with a short-form in development and two parent-completed lengths consisting of 50 and 28 items (CHQ-PF50 and CHQ-PF28, respectively). The CHQ can be integrated with the Infant Toddler Quality of Life Questionnaire, a parent-completed generic HRQOL instrument for ages 2 months to 5 years, thereby allowing for standardized measurement across childhood. The ITQOL is available as a full-length 97 or 47-item short-form.
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Further Reading
Landgraf, J. M. (2004). The CHQ and its application to psychological testing and outcomes for the behavioral healthcare practitioner. In M. Maruish (Ed.), The use of psychological testing for treatment, planning, and outcome assessment (3rd ed., Vol. 2, pp. 443–460). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence-Erlbaum Press.
Landgraf, J. M. (2005). Practical considerations in the measurement of health-related quality of life in child/adolescent clinical trials. In P. Fayers & R. D. Hays (Eds.), Assessing the quality of life in clinical trials (2nd ed., pp. 339–367). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Landgraf, J. M., & Abetz, L. (1998). Influences of sociodemographic characteristics on parental reports of children’s physical and psychosocial well-being: Early experiences with the child health questionnaire. In D. Drotar (Ed.), Measuring health-related quality of life in children and adolescents (pp. 105–126). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
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Landgraf, J.M. (2014). Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ). In: Michalos, A.C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_324
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