Abstract

PEREZ GONZALEZ, Disnardo Raúl; BLANCO CORTADA, María de los Ángeles; GARCIA PEREZ, Rosa Marina  and  SUAREZ MEDINA, Ramón. Adaptation and testing of a health-related quality of life questionnaire in adolescents. Rev Cubana Hig Epidemiol [online]. 2008, vol.46, n.1. ISSN 0253-1751.

OBJECTIVE: to adapt and test a health-related life quality questionnaire in adolescents aged 15-19, and to determine its connection with risk behaviours aimed at applying it among the adolescents of the country and at proposing a new questionnaire for its validation. METHODS: the pilot test of the questionnaire was conducted at the Economics Polytechnic of Habana Vieja municipality, where all the first- and second-year healthy adolescents were studied. The Child Health and Illness Profile generic instrument adjusted by expert criterion was applied to the participants. RESULTS: it was found in the pilot test that there were some questions the adolescents did not understand. CONCLUSIONS: the adequacies of the questions, as well as the validation of the questionnaire in the different geographic settings present in Cuba were recommended.

Keywords : To adapt and to test; questionnaire; adolescents; risk behaviours; pilot test.