Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Health-related quality of life assessment in Indonesian childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia | Health and Quality of Life BioMed Central Open Access Health-related quality of life assessment in Indonesian childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia Mei N Sitaresmi 1 Saskia Mostert2 Chad M Gundy3 Sutaryo4 and Anjo JP Veerman2 Address Department of Pediatrics Faculty of Medicine Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta Indonesia 2Department of Pediatric HematologyOncology VU Medical Center VU Amsterdam the Netherlands 3Department of Psycho-Social Research and Epidemiology Dutch Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital Amsterdam the Netherlands and 4Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology Faculty of Medicine Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta Indonesia Email Mei N Sitaresmi - msitaresmi@ Saskia Mostert - smostert@ Chad M Gundy - Sutaryo - sutaryo@ Anjo JP Veerman - Corresponding author Published 9 November 2008 Received 10 August 2008 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008 6 96 doi 1477-7525-6-96 Accepted 9 November 2008 This article is available from http content 6 1 96 2008 Sitaresmi et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Most studies on Health-related Quality of Life HRQOL in children with cancer were conducted in developed countries. The aims of this study were to assess the HRQOL in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia ALL patients in Indonesia and to assess the influence of demographic and medical characteristics on HRQOL. Methods After cultural linguistic validation a cross-sectional study of HRQOL was conducted with childhood ALL patients and their guardians in various phases of treatment using the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory PedsQL Generic Core Scale and the Pediatric Quality .
