Journal article
Annual Research Review: Quality of life and childhood mental and behavioural disorders – a critical review of the research
U Jonsson, I Alaie, A Löfgren Wilteus, E Zander, PB Marschik, D Coghill, S Bölte
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines | WILEY | Published : 2017
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12645
Abstract
Background: An individual's subjective perception of well-being is increasingly recognized as an essential complement to clinical symptomatology and functional impairment in children's mental health. Measurement of quality of life (QoL) has the potential to give due weight to the child's perspective. Scope and methodology: Our aim was to critically review the current evidence on how childhood mental disorders affect QoL. First, the major challenges in this research field are outlined. Then we present a systematic review of QoL in children and adolescents aged 0–18 years formally diagnosed with a mental and behavioural disorder, as compared to healthy or typically developing children or child..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This review was invited by the Editors of this journal, who offered a small honorarium to cover expenses to the first author. S.B. declares no conflict of interest related to this work. He has in the last 3 years acted as a consultant or lecturer for Shire, Roche, Eli Lilly, Prima Psychiatry, Kompetento, Expo Medica, System Analytic and Prophase, and receives royalties from Kohlhammer and Hogrefe/Huber publishers. D.C. has within the last 3 years served in an advisory or consultancy role and/or received speakers' fees from Flynn Pharma, Lilly, Janssen, Medice, Novartis, Shire and Vifor. He has received research funding from Shire and Vifor. He receives royalties from Oxford University Press. I. A. was supported by the Pediatric Research Foundation at Astrid Lindgren Children's Hospital. S.B. was supported by the Swedish Research Council. The present work is unrelated to the above grants and relationships. The remaining authors have no potential conflicts of interest to declare. The authors thank Carl Gornitzki and Klas Moberg for their assistance with the literature search.