The Quality of Life profile - adolescent version: Background,
description, and initial validations
Dennis Raphael, Ellen Rukholm, Ivan Brown, Pat Hill-Bailey,
Emily Donato
January 1996, 18 pages
PURPOSE: Emerging concepts of adolescent health were considered within a broadened
quality of life perspective. Instrumentation examining quality of life -- The extent to which a person enjoys the important possibilities of his/her
life -- in three broad domains of adolescent functioning: Being, Belonging,
and Becoming, was developed and validated.
METHODS: The 54 item Quality of Life Profile: Adolescent Version (QOLPAV)
asks adolescents to rate items for importance and satisfaction. The QOLPAV
was administered, together with a range of other measures of adolescent functioning
to 160 Canadian adolescents. RESULTS: QOLPAV scores were reliable and correlated
with measures of adolescent personality, self-reported health status, and
tobacco and alcohol behavior.
CONCLUSIONS: With further validation, the QOLPAV could be used to assess current
states of coping and functioning, identify adolescents' service needs, develop
health enhancing environments, and assess the effects of illness and treatments.