CP QOL-Child
Cerebral Palsy Quality of Life Questionnaire for Children (CP QOL-Child)
The CP QOL-Child is a cerebral palsy-specific questionnaire designed to assess the child's perceived quality of life. Unlike measures focused solely on functional limitations, it explores the child's subjective experience in several clinically relevant domains, including social well-being, emotions, self-image, participation, pain, the experience of daily functioning, and the care environment. This tool is particularly useful for psychologists, pediatric neurologists, rehabilitation teams, and researchers who wish to document the overall impact of cerebral palsy on the child's life, monitor changes over time, and guide individualized interventions. The CP QOL-Child is available in self-report and parent-proxy versions; the version used here is the child self-report, used when the child's comprehension and communication skills allow it.
- Number of questions
- 52 questions
- Estimated duration
- 20 minutes
- Language
- English
- Original name
- Cerebral Palsy Quality of Life Questionnaire for Children
- Target audience
- Children
- Authors
- Elizabeth Waters, Euan Davis, Andrew Mackinnon, Roslyn Boyd, H. Kerr Graham, Sing Kai Lo, Rory Wolfe, Robert Stevenson, Kristie Bjornson, Eve Blair (2007)
- Category
- Childhood
Scoring & interpretation
Items are scored on an ordinal scale of satisfaction or frequency, depending on the format of the version, and then transformed into standardized scores from 0 to 100. Results are calculated by domain by averaging the corresponding items after recoding if necessary. A higher score indicates better perceived quality of life in the domain concerned. Interpretation should favor the subscale profile rather than a single overall score, taking into account the level of communication, the family context, and associated motor limitations.
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