Quality of care as a determinant of health-related quality of life in ill-hospitalized adolescents at a tertiary care hospital in North India

International Journal for Quality in Health Care

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 587-594

  Awasthi, Shally ^a   Agnihotri, Kasturi ^a   Thakur, Savitri ^a   Singh, Uttam ^b   Chandra, Hem ^b  

^a KING GEORGE'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^b SANJAY GANDHI POSTGRADUATE INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

Health related quality of life; Pyramid; Quality of care; WHOQOL BREF

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHRONIC INFLAMMATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY OF LIFE; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; TERTIARY HEALTH CARE; WORK ENVIRONMENT;

ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES ADMINISTRATION; HUMANS; INDIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PEDIATRICS; PERCEPTION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERTIARY CARE CENTERS;

EID: 84869425979     PISSN: 13534505     EISSN: 14643677     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/intqhc/mzs054     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Mayer EK, Purkayastha S, Athanasiou T et al. Redefining quality of care. J R Soc Med 2007;100:122-4.
2. Bradlyn AS, Varni JW, Hinds PS. When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End of Life Care for Children and Their Families 2003, 476-508. Appendix C: Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life in End-of-Life Care [Online]. www.books.nap.udu/openbook.php?recordid=10390&page=476 (22 December 2008, date last accessed).
3. Muldoon MF, Barger SD, Flory JD et al. What are quality of life measurements measuring? [education and debate]. BMJ 1998;316:542-5.
4. Gerharz EW, Eiser C, Woodhouse CRJ. Current approaches to assessing the quality of life in children and adolescents. BJU Int 2003;91:150-4.
5. The WHOQOL Group. The World Health Organization Quality of Life Assessment (WHOQOL): position paper from the World Health Organization. Soc Sci Med 1995;41:1403-9.
6. World Health Organization. WHOQOL User Manual (WHO/MNH/MHP/98.4. Rev.1). Programme on Mental Health. Division of Mental Health and Prevention of Substance Abuse. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1998.
7. Spieth LE, Harris CV. Assessment of health-related quality of life in children and adolescents: an integrative review. J Pediatr Psychol 1996;21:175-193.
8. Irvine EJ. The quality of quality of life [commentaries]. Gut 1999;44:447-53.
9. Pakhomov S, Shah N, Hanson P et al. Automatic quality of life prediction using electronic medical records. AMIA 2008 Symposium Proceedings [Online]. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih. gov/pmc/journals/362/(9 January 2010, date last accessed).
10. Blumenthal D. Quality of care-what is it? Perspective on the quality of care. New Engl J Med 1996;335:891-4.
11. Barofsky I. Patients' rights, quality of life, and health care system performance. Qual Life Res 2003;12:473-84.
12. Mack JW, Hilden JM, Watterson J. Parent and physician perspectives on quality of care at the end of life in children with cancer. J Clin Oncol 2005;23:9155-61.
13. Eijk IVD, Stockbrugger R, Russel M. Influence of quality of care on quality of life in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD): literature review and studies planned. Eur J Int Med 2000;11:228-34.
14. Ygge BM, Arnetz JE. Quality of pediatric care: application and validation of an instrument for measuring parent satisfaction with hospital care. Int J Qual Health C 2001;13:33-43.
15. Homer CJ, Marino B, Cleary PD et al. Quality of care at a children's hospital. The parent's perspective. Arch Adol Med 1999;153:1123-9.
16. Bassili A, Zaki A, Zaher SR et al. Quality of care of children with chronic diseases in Alexandria, Egypt: the models of asthma, type I diabetes, epilepsy, and rheumatic heart disease. Pediatrics 2000;106:e12.
17. McPhersona CJ, Addington-Hall JM. Judging the quality of care at the end of life: can proxies provide reliable information? Soc Sci Med 2003;56:95-109.
18. TM 4.0 Generic Core Scales. Health Qual Life Outcomes 2007;5:2.
19. Varni JW, Burwinkle TM, Lane MM. Health-related quality of life measurement in pediatric clinical practice: an appraisal and precept for future research and application. Health Qual Life Outcomes 2005;3:34.
20. Higginson IJ, Carr AJ. Measuring quality of life: using quality of life measures in the clinical setting. BMJ 2001;322:1297-300.
21. Seid M, Varni JW, Bermudez LO et al. Parents' perception of primary care: measuring parents' experiences of pediatric primary care quality. Pediatrics 2001;108:264-70.
22. Report of the working group on adolescents for the tenth five year plan. Planning Commission. Government of India. www. planningcommission.nic.in/aboutus/committee/wrkgrp/wg_adolcnts.pdf (9 October 2007, date last accessed).
23. Agnihotri K, Awasthi S, Chandra H, Singh U, Thakur S. Validation of WHOQOL-BREF instrument in Indian adolescents. Indian J Pediatr 2010;77:381-6.
24. Miettunen J. Statistical methods in psychiatric research, with special reference on factor analysis. Oulu, Finland: Department of Psychiatry, Department of Public Health Science and General Practice, University of Oulu, Tampere School of Public Health, University of Tampere, 2004.
25. Verho H, Arnetz JE. Validation and application of an instrument for measuring patient relative's perception of quality of geriatric care. Int J Qual Health Care 2003;15:197-206.
26. Field AP. Discovering Statistics using SPSS, 2nd edn. London: Sage, 2005. www.statisticsshell.com/reliabilty.pdf (13 November 2008, date last accessed).
27. Jette A, Jan M, Svend S. Determinants of priorities and satisfaction in pediatric care. Pediatr Nurs 2006;32:333-40, 348.
28. Ygge BM, Arnetz JE. A Study of parental involvement in pediatric hospital care: implications for clinical practice. J Pediatr Nurs 2004;19:217-27.
29. Patrick TJ, Ferris TG, Marino BL. Are hospital characteristics associated with parental views of pediatric inpatient care quality? Pediatrics 2003;111:308-14.
30. Aujoulat I, Simonelli F, Deccache A. Health promotion needs of children and adolescents in hospitals: a review. Patient Educ Couns 2006;61:23-32.
31. Hallstrom I, Runesson I, Elander G. Observed parental needs during their child's hospitalization. J Pediatr Nurs 2002;17:140-8.
32. Patrick LC, Gallo JJ, Gonzales JJ et al. Race, gender, and partnership in the patient physician relationship. JAMA 1999;282:583-9.
33. Dandona R, Dandona L, McCarty CA et al. Adaptation of WHOQOL as health-related quality of life instrument to develop a vision-specific instrument. Indian J Ophthalmol 2000;48:65-70.
34. Trevor D, Rebecca B, Weber MW. Improving the quality of care for children [Editorial]. Indian Pediatr 2002;39:523-8.
35. Mah JK, Tough S, Fung T et al. Adolescent quality of life and satisfaction with care. J Adolesc Health 2006;38:607.e1-7.
36. Hsieh CM. Health, quality of care and quality of life: a case of frail older adults. Soc Indic Res 2009;94:61-73. doi:10.1007/s11205-008-9336-2.