Jiseon Kim|Hyewon Chung|Dagmar Amtmann|Rana Salem|Ryoungsun Park|Robert L. Askew
Symptoms and quality of life indicators among children with chronic medical conditions
University of Washington|Chungnam National University|University of Washington|University of Washington|The University of Texas at Austin|University of Washington
children chronic conditions often experience numerous symptoms research studies examine patterns symptoms quality life qol indicatorsto examine reliable latent classes children chronic medical conditions identified based clustering symptoms qol indicatorsstructured interviews conducted children ages 921 living chronic medical conditions n 90 multiple symptoms eg pain sleep fatigue depression qol indicators eg life satisfaction social support measured physical health emotional social school functioning measured using pediatric quality life inventory pedsql latent class analysis used classify child latent class whose members report similar patterns responsesa threeclass solution best model fit class 1 highsymptom group n 15 167 reported problems symptoms lowest scores qol indicators class 2 moderatesymptom group n 39 433 reported moderate levels symptoms qol indicators class 3 lowsymptom group n 36 400 reported lowest levels symptoms highest scores qol indicatorsthe three latent classes identified study distributed along severity continuum symptoms qol indicators appeared move direction eg worse symptoms lower qol pedsql psychosocial health summary score combining emotional social school functioning scores discriminated well children different levels disease burden