Measuring Quality of Life in Children With Obstructive Sleep Disorders

Abstract

The OSD-6 is a reliable, responsive, easily administered instrument. It is valid for detecting change after adenotonsillectomy in children with OSDs. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2000;126:1423-1429

Avaliação do impacto da adenotonsilectomia sobre a qualidade de vida em crianças com hipertrofia das tonsilas palatinas e faríngeas

“…Thus, the domains responsible for the worst quality of life (highest score) for these children were the ones that most improved after adenotonsillectomy. The activity limitation domain was the one that scored the lowest in the preoperative period, coinciding with the findings from Serres et al 11 . Its percentage variation in relation to the post-adenotonsillectomy score was also the one with the lowest score, only 1.4%.…”

“…These are the same domains that stood out in a similar paper published by Serres et al 11 ; however, the author also firstly found sleep disorders, followed by physical suffering and parents' concern with the child's snoring, which may have occurred because of cultural differences. Analyzing the score obtained after surgery in these domains, we notice that they keep the same order, in other words, parents' concern was the domain which obtained the highest percentage difference, afterwards was physical suffering and finally, sleep disorders.…”

Assessing the impact adenotonsilectomy has on the lives of children with hypertrophy of palatine and pharyngeal tonsils

“…The activity limitation domain was the one that scored the lowest in the preoperative period, coinciding with the findings from Serres et al 11 . Its percentage variation in relation to the post-adenotonsillectomy score was also the one with the lowest score, only 1.4%.…”

Screening of Pediatric Sleep-Disordered Breathing

“…1 A set of questions is likely to provide a better and more reliable approach if one wants to screen across a spectrum of SDB, and attempts to fi nd such a set are encountered in the literature. 1,[34][35][36][37][38][39] Despite their differences, those results are comparable to those presented here, which in addition were generated in a large community sample, and indicate that a set of ordered questions or the severity hierarchy of complaints is reliable for screening purposes. More specifi cally, a criterion of .…”