The Greek 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 Greek language of the parents version of 2 health related qualit y of life instruments. The Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (CHAQ) is a disease specific health instrument that measures functional ability i n daily living activities in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (K A). The Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ) is a generic health instrument des igned to capture, the physical and psychosocial well-being of children inde pendently from the underlying disease. The Greek CHAQ CHQ were fully valida ted with 3 forivard and 3 backward translations. A total of 143 subjects we re enrolled: 82 patients with JIA (28% systemic onset, 24% polyarticular on set, 10% extended oligoarticular subtype, and 38% persistent oligoarticular subtype) and 61 healthy children. The CHAQ clinically discriminated betwee n healthy subjects and JIA patients, with the systemic, polyarticular and e xtended oligoarticular subtypes having a higher degree of disability, pain, and a lower overall well-being when compared to their healthy peers. Also the CHQ clinically discriminated between healthy, subjects and JIA patients , with the systemic onset, polyarticular onset and extended oligoarticular subtypes having a lower physical and psychosocial well-being when compared to their healthy, peers. In conclusion the Greek version of the CHAQ-CHQ is a reliable, and valid to ol for the functional, physical and psychosocial assessment of children wit h JIA.