Health-related quality of life in infants and children with interstitial lung disease.
Clara LaubyPierre-Yves BoelleRola Abou TaamKatia BessaciJacques BrouardMarie-Laure DalphinChristophe DelacourtCéline DelestrainAntoine DeschildreJean-Christophe DubusMichaël FayonLisa Giovannini-ChamiVéronique HoudouinAnne HouzelChristophe MarguetIsabelle PinPhilippe ReixMarie-Catherine RenouxCyril SchweitzerAurélie TatopoulosCaroline ThumerelleFrançoise TroussierStéphanie WaninLaurence WeissAnnick ClementRalph EpaudNadia NathanPublished in: Pediatric pulmonology (2019)
Using a validated quality of life (QoL) scale, we showed that health-related-QoL is significantly impaired in chILD compared with a healthy population. Factors altering QoL score are easy to recognize and could help identify children at a heightened risk of low QoL.