A QUESTIONNAIRE TO MEASURE QUALITY-OF-LIF E

An instrument to measure quality of life in multicentric pediatric stu dies in German language was missing yet. The FMH measures the capabili ty for daily life actions with 56 items like ''can walk without aids'' or ''earns money''. It was normalized with 971 persons (45.5% female) aging between 0 and 102 years resulting in age-dependent percentiles. The retest-reliability-coefficient is 0.99. The validity was tested i n 10 brain tumor patients: there was a good aggreement with the IQ (r = 0.7) and with a semiquantitative assessment by a physican (p < 0.001 ).