Progresses on the quality of life of children with chronic kidney disease / 中华实用儿科临床杂志

ABSTRACT

The health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is the individual subjective evaluation of disease and treatment on their physical, mental and social health status, and is an important part of health and medical services.Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a kind of diseases that has lasted for more than 3 months of abnormal renal structure or function.It is one of the diseases that seriously affect children′s HRQoL.This article reviews the emergence, development, evaluation tools of children′s HRQoL and its application in the field of nephrology.