Quality of Life in Parents of Adolescents With Spinal Deformities: Development of a New Questionnaire.

Istituto Scientifico Italiano Colonna Vertebrale

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Quality of Life; Scoliosis; Adolescence; Spinal Deformity

Treatments: Other: Questionnaire

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04899297

PQOL-Isico

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aims to develop a new instrument capable of providing an efficient measure of the quality of life of parents of conservatively treated patients with spinal deformity. The development of a questionnaire in a Rasch environment and specifically developed for parents of conservatively treated patients will ensure greater sensitivity and specificity of the questionnaire.

Enrollment: 600 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• have at least one child between the ages of 10 and 18 with adolescent idiopathic scoliosis of 10 degrees or more, or with Scheuermann's kyphosis or idiopathic hyperkyphosis
• prescription of a brace or specific exercises for the child's vertebral deformity.

Exclusion criteria

• Child with a history of spinal surgery
• Child with a history of significant diseases with possible impact on the quality of life of the parents
• Child with a history of spinal trauma
• Child with positive neurological evaluation

Trial design

600 participants in 1 patient group

Quality of life

Treatment:

Other: Questionnaire