Quality of Life and Health Status in Pediatric Tonsil and Adenoid Disease

Abstract

The health status impact of tonsil and adenoid disease appears to be quite significant, particularly in aspects related to the parental impact of the child's disease.

Melhora da qualidade de vida em crianças após adenoamigdalectomia

“…Other studies found different results for parent's/guardian's concern and the concept of health 11 , probably related to cultural differences.…”

Resultados na qualidade de vida em longo prazo de crianças submetidas à adenoidectomia/adenotonsilectomia por distúrbios obstrutivos do sono

“…Recent papers are evidence of this important theme. [20][21][22][23][24][25] Franco Jr. et al 20 was one of the pioneers assessing quality of life improvements following adenotonsillectomy in children with OSDs; in the year 2000 he disseminated a specific questionnaire -the OSA18 -which opened the file for other authors to use this method in assessments.…”

“…29 Another possible issue is to apply the OSA18 questionnaire for assessing quality of life I caretakers rather than in the patients themselves. Stewart et al 21 has explained the rationale of this approach, suggesting that language complexity and vocabulary differences between the children and researchers make assessing caretakers the best evaluation method for looking at qualify of life in these children.…”

“…[20][21][22][23][24][25] There remains, however, a gap concerning the long term results about the quality of life of patients undergoing adenotonsillectomy for the treatment of OSDs.…”

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

“…Recently, quality of life has been used to try to assess the impact diseases have on their patients and guardians, adding such consideration to the treatment decision process [10][11][12][13][14][15] . The questionnaire used in this study is a specific instrument and aims at assessing the impact a disease may have on a patient, in an attempt to incorporate such criterion to the medical indications for severity and importance of assessing children with tonsilar enlargement and to add such fact to the treatment decision process.…”