| Name of the Instrument/Tool | Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ) |
| First Description |
Landgraf JM, Maunsell E., Nixon-Speechley K.N.,Bullinger M., Campbell S., Abetz L., and Ware JE. Canadian-French, German and United Kingdom Versions of the Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ-PF50): Methodology and Preliminary Item Scaling Results. Quality of Life Research, 1998:7(5);433-445. |
| Year | 1996 |
| Domains | |
| Concept of constructs | Health related quality of life |
| Population/Disease | Generic |
| Originally developed for | Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) |
| Other rheumatic diseases where can be applied (only if validated) |
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA), Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) |
| Additional population with no rheumatic diseases |
Yes Chronic conditions |
| Language: Originally published in | English |
| Available in Language | Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Filipino, Finnish, French, Georgian, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish |
| REFERENCE IDENTIFICATION | |
| Author/s | Landgraf JM, Abetz L, Ware JE |
| Title | The CHQ: A User’s Manual |
| Journal | 1st edn. Boston, MA: The Health Institute, New England Medical Center |
| Year | 1996 |
| Vol | --- |
| Num | --- |
| Pages | --- |
| Country | US |
| Language | English |
| Other references of interest | |
| Link | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9691723 |
| Brief Description |
First validation of the Canadian-French, German and UK translations/adaptions of the 50 item, parent-completed Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ-PF50). |
| Link | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17266064 |
| Brief Description |
evaluation of proxy-reported HRQOL and its determinants in 3,324 patients with juvenile idiopathic arthritis and 3,315 healthy children enrolled from 32 countries. |
| Link | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19487266 |
| Brief Description |
HRQOL in 98 children with childhood-onset SLE compared to that of normative cohorts and in relation to disease activity and damage |
| Instrument/Tool Translations References | |
| Link | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11510308 |
| Brief Description |
Presentation of the cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the CHQ in the 32 different member countries of the Paediatric Rheumatology International Trials Organization |
| Link | https://www.healthactchq.com/translation/chq |
| Brief Description |
There are currently almost 90 ISPOR standard translations for the CHQ family of measures. Please see the link above at the HealthActCHQ website for a current translation listing |
| DEVELOPER CONTACT INFORMATION | |
| Correspondence to | HealthActCHQ Licensing Department |
| licensing@healthactchq.com | |
| Address | 800 Boylston St 16th Floor, Boston MA USA 02199 |
| Website | https://www.healthactchq.com/licensing.php |
| Available | See below |
| Links | --- |
| DESCRIPTION OF THE INSTRUMENT | |
| Type Of Measure | Questionnaire |
| Brief Description |
The CHQ is a family of measures that spans more than 30 years of rigorous development and research and includes child self-report (CF) and parent-administered (PF) versions for measuring HRQOL in children and adolescents aged 5-18 years. Normative US based data is available for all CHQ measures. It is considered a “gold standard” HRQOL measure. |
| Number of Items | Family of Measures include full-length and empirically derived short-form alternatives for the parent-reported versions (CHQ-PF50, CHQ-PF28; 50 and 28 items respectively) and the child self-report (CHQ-CF87, CHQ-CF45; 87 and 45 items respectively). |
| Range | There are profile or concept specific scores for each measure that range from 0-100. |
| Responses options/scale |
Yes each item consists of 4-6 response options in ordinal scales |
| Developed for | Both, Clinical practice, Research |
| PRACTICAL APPLICATION | |
| Method of administration | Self-administered |
| Recommendations to score |
CHQ Surveys, scoring algorithms, norms and related documents are proprietary and protected by international copyright. A HealthActCHQ scoring and interpretation manual is required and is provided to all end users for specific project use as part of a paid license. |
| Score Interpretation | Each summary has a 0-100 range (100 best possible health state), with a mean of 50 and a SD of ±10. |
| Cut-off points | Poor HRQOL for the PhS and PsS scores are defined as 1 SDs below the mean |
| Cut-off points applied to | --- |
| Smallest detectable change if described | --- |
| Smallest detectable change applied to | --- |
| Completion time by the patient | 5-15 minutes (CHQ-PF50) to 16-25 (CHQ-PF87 minutes |
| Scoring time by the assessor | 0 minutes |
| Training to score | Manual required |
| Strengths | Useful in clinical practice & research, Widely used |
| Limitations | Complex scoring, Copyrighted |
| OTHER COMMENTS | |
| Other Comments |
The PROM is not available because of Copyright |