Abstract

QUICENO, Japcy Margarita  and  VINACCIA, Stefano. Health-related quality of life infantile: an approach from chronic illness. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2013, vol.7, n.2, pp.69-86. ISSN 1900-2386.

Abstract The following is a review of evidence-based literature on the construct health-related quality of life infantile. There is described the historical and conceptual development of this term up to coming to the first studies in the infancy. It mentions the development of measuring instruments that have been adapted and validated to assess the health-related quality of life infantile in Spanish language so much generic as specifics and the domains that shape them. There is defined a conceptual model who describes the dimensions and factors associated with health-related quality of life in the stages of the childhood and the adolescence. And there are described the subject matters that recently have been studied in the field. Finally, there is a need of researches development, especially in Latin America approached from the social sciences, since the research has been focused in the field of the pediatric medicine, with emphasis on the physical manifestations.

Keywords : Health-related quality of life infantile; childhood; adolescence; chronic Illness; quality of life instruments.

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