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Health-related Quality of Life and Family Function Following Pediatric Liver Transplantation by Estella M. Alonso; Katie Neighbors; Franca B. Barton; Sue V. McDiarmid; Stephen P. Dunn; George V. Mazariegos; Jeanne M. Landgraf; John C. Bucuvalas; Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplant Research Group is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
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This multicenter study compared health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and family function of pediatric liver transplant recipients to those of healthy children to determine if this population differed from a healthy population and to distinguish which pretransplant and posttransplant factors impact HRQOL and family function. HRQOL data from 102 patients achieving 2-year survival were collected with the Infant Toddler Quality of Life Instrument or the Child Health Questionnaire Parent Form 50 parent surveys. Family functioning was assessed with the Family Assessment Device (FAD) completed by each participant's family members. Demographic and clinical information were retrieved from the Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplant database. Recipients 5 years of age and older scored lower than a normative sample in physical health (P Ͻ 0.001), general health (P Ͻ 0.001), parental emotional impact (P Ͻ 0.001), and disruption of family activities (P Ͻ 0.001). Younger children, 2 to 5 years of age, scored lower than controls in global health (P ϭ 0.004) and general health perceptions (P Ͻ 0.001) but did not differ in subscales measuring physical and psychosocial outcomes. Univariate analysis
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- Author
- Estella M. Alonso; Katie Neighbors; Franca B. Barton; Sue V. McDiarmid; Stephen P. Dunn; George V. Mazariegos; Jeanne M. Landgraf; John C. Bucuvalas; Studies of Pediatric Liver Transplant Research Group
- Publisher
- Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)