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

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

Status

Active, not recruiting

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Observational

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT04899297

Enrollment

600

Registered

2021-05-24

Start date

2021-05-07

Completion date

2024-12-31

Last updated

2024-05-08

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Conditions

Quality of Life, Scoliosis; Adolescence, Spinal Deformity

Keywords

Scoliosis, Quality of life, Spinal Deformity

Brief summary

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.

Interventions

OTHERQuestionnaire

All parents of patients visited at an outpatient service dedicated to the treatment of vertebral deformities will be recruited at the end of the medical clinical evaluation. The doctor will invite all subjects to complete the questionnaire anonymously at the end of each follow-up visit.

Study design

Observational model

COHORT

Time perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Yes

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

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Parents' quality of life	through study completion, an average of 1 year	New questionnaire developped to assess quality of life of parents of patients with spinal deformity treated conservatively

Countries

Italy

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026