The Polish 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 Polish language of the parent's version of two health related qu ality of life instruments. The Childhood Health Assessment Questionnaire (C HAQ) is a disease specific health instrument that measures functional abili ty in daily living activities in children with juvenile idiopathic arthriti s (RA), The Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ) is a generic health instrument designed to capture the physical and psychosocial well-being of children i ndependently from the underlying disease. The Polish CHAQ CHQ were fully va lidated with I forward and I backward translation. A total of 30 subjects w ere enrolled: 17 patients with JIA (35% systemic onset, 18% polyarticular o nset, 29% extended oligoarticular subtype, and 18% persistent oligoarticula r subtype) and 13 healthy children. The CHAQ clinically, discriminated betw een health), subjects and JIA patients, with the systemic, polyarticular an d extended oligoarticular subtypes having a higher degree of disability, pa in, and a lower overall well-being when compared to their healthy peers. Al so the CHQ clinically discriminated between healthy subjects and JIA patien ts, with the systemic, onset, polyarticular onset and extended oligoarticul ar subtypes having a lower physical and psychosocial well-being when compar ed to their healthy, peers. In conclusion the Polish versions of the CHAQ-CHQ are reliable, and valid t ools for the functional, physical and psychosocial assessment of children w ith JIA.