Usefulness of the WHOQOL-BREF questionnaire in assessing the quality of life of parents of children with asthma

Educational technology for people living with HIV: validation study

“…Given this context, studies highlight the importance of reliability as to the uniformity of each item of a scale, measured by the consistency of the evaluators' responses. These findings corroborate the results of this research (17)(18)(19) . A study carried out to validate a surgical safety checklist emphasized the reliability of a validated instrument as something that contributes with the professional in all areas of knowledge, allowing the recognition of avoidable risk situations, educational actions, and valuing the management to whom it is intended.…”

Parenting children with cancer: Impact assessment on quality of life using World Health Organization quality of life tool-BREF tool

“…[3,9] Roncada et al [3] in their study showed that parents of children with asthma had deranged QOL in all four domains using WHOQOL-BREF tool. While Silva et al [9] found a significant higher score in social domain only, in similar study population.…”

“…This is useful for their support and coping skill. [3] First two questions of WHOQOL-BREF were related to self-rating of overall health and self-rating of overall QOL among respondents. For both, level of dissatisfaction was higher in parents with childhood cancer.…”

“…It is also used to evaluate the effectiveness of treatment and disease control. [3] Earlier this tool was used to assess QOL among mothers with asthmatic children [3,4] or QOL in parents . [5] We postulate that QOL of parents of a child diagnosed with cancer can be impaired.…”

Coping with Wolf-Hirschhorn Syndrome: quality of life and psychosocial features of family carers

“…QoL is described as a subjective and multidimensional process [20,21] and it has become a focus of research in recent decades. It has been included in studies of rare diseases (RDs) [22][23][24][25][26][27] and chronic diseases [28][29][30][31][32] involving both patients and caregivers. In all these cases the child's condition negatively affected the parents's QoL to a greater or lesser extent.…”