caa a22 4500 475846834 CHVBK 20180406123916.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008915700210 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008915700210 Norm values for the Generic Children's Quality of Life Measure (GCQ) from a large school-based sample [Elektronische Daten] [Jacqueline Collier, Dorothy MacKinlay, Deborah Phillips] This study aimed to assess the quality of life of a population sample of schoolchildren. The Generic Children's Quality of Life Measure (GCQ) has been developed to allow comparison between chronically ill children and the general child population. The measure assesses how the child views his or her life and also how they would like it to be. Quality of life is measured as the discrepancy between the two viewpoints. This large community-based survey aimed to establish GCQ norm values for children aged 6-14 years. The children were from a sample of schools stratified by geographical location and social need: rural affluent, rural low affluence, urban affluent and urban low affluence. 720 completed questionnaires were analysed. The scores were normally distributed with a wide range. The GCQ showed an acceptable reliability with a Cronbach's α of 0.75. The quality of life score was not correlated with age (r = −0.02, p = 0.64) nor with the deprivation score of the area in which the children lived (r = −0.026, p = 0.49). There were no significant differences between the scores by gender (p = 0.22) nor by rural/urban location (p = 0.60). Normative values were established. The GCQ is suitable for using with children over a large age range (6-14 years) without the scores being confounded by the age, gender, affluence or geographical location. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Children nationallicence Population sample nationallicence Quality of life nationallicence Collier Jacqueline Division of Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK aut MacKinlay Dorothy Children's Services, Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust & Nottingham Community NHS Trust, UK aut Phillips Deborah Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK aut Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/6(2000-06-01), 617-623 0962-9343 9:6<617 2000 9 11136 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008915700210 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008915700210 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Collier Jacqueline Division of Child Health, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- MacKinlay Dorothy Children's Services, Nottingham City Hospital NHS Trust & Nottingham Community NHS Trust, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Phillips Deborah Division of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Nottingham, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/6(2000-06-01), 617-623 0962-9343 9:6<617 2000 9 11136 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer