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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Quality of Life as reported by children and parents: a comparison between students and child psychiatric outpatients | Jozefiak et al. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010 8 136 http content 8 1 136 HEALTH AND QUALITY of life outcomes RESEARCH Open Access Quality of Life as reported by children and parents a comparison between students and child psychiatric outpatients I I ZYX -X f- I -xzxii -X Is 1 20 fx I ì rr X 1 I -1 r tA i - r ss i S S 3 -1 x tA xll x zl zx s4 t ft t iHvxl if5 Thomas jozeriak Bo Larsson Lars vvicnstroiTi Jan vvaiianoer Fritz Mattejat Abstract Background During the recent decade a number of studies have begun to address Quality of Life QoL in children and adolescents with mental health problems in general population and clinical samples. Only about half of the studies utilized both self and parent proxy report of child QoL. Generally children with mental health problems have reported lower QoL compared to healthy children. The question whether QoL assessment by both self and parent proxy report can identify psychiatric health services needs not detected by an established instrument for assessing mental health problems . the Child Behavior Checklist CBCL has never been examined and was the purpose of the present study. Methods No study exists that compares child QoL as rated by both child and parent in a sample of referred child psychiatric outpatients with a representative sample of students attending public school in the same catchment area while controlling for mental health problems in the child. In the current study patients and students aged years were matched with respect to age gender and levels of the CBCL Total Problems scores. QoL was assessed by the self- and parent proxy-reports on the Inventory of Life Quality in Children and Adolescents ILC . QoL scores were analyzed by non-parametric tests using Wilcoxon paired rank comparisons. Results Both outpatients and their parents reported significantly lower child QoL on the ILC than did students and their parents when children were matched on sex and age. Given equal levels of .