The Georgian version of the Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) and the Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ)

We report herein the results of the cross-cultural adaptation and validatio n into the Georgian language of the parent's version of two health related quality of life instruments. The Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) is a disease specific health instrument that measures functional abi lity in daily living activities in children with juvenile idiopathic arthri tis (RA). The Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ) is a generic health instrume nt designed to capture the physical and psychosocial well-being of children independently from the underlying disease. The Georgian CHAQ CHQ were full y, validated with 3 forward and 3 backward translation. A total of 115 subj ects were enrolled: 54 patients with JIA (44% systemic onset, 28% polyartic ular onset, 7,5% extended oligoarticular subtype, and 20,5% persistent olig oarticular subtype) and 61 healthy, children. The CHAQ clinically discrimin ated between healthy subjects and JIA patients, with the systemic, polyarti cular and extended oligoarticular subtypes having a higher degree of disabi lity, pain, and a lower overall well-being when compared to their healthy p eers. Also the CHQ clinically discriminated between healthy subjects and RA patients, with the systemic onset, polyarticular onset and extended oligoa rticular subtypes having a lower physical and psychosocial well-being when compared to their healthy peers. In conclusion the Georgian version of the CHAQ-CHQ is a reliable, and valid tool for the functional, physical and psychosocial assessment of children with JIA.