Clinical trial NCT02553486: Internationally Adopted Children Quality of Life
Official title: Internationally Adopted Children Quality of Life Study (QUADOP)
Study type: OBSERVATIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Conditions: Children
Quality of Life
Keywords: adoption
children
quality of life
Lead sponsor: Nantes University Hospital
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2015-09-17
Enrollment: 756
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 1
Maximum age (years): 25
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Time perspective: PROSPECTIVE
Sampling method: NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE
Study population: All international adopted children, who arrived in France between 2008 and 2013, living in four French districts (Loire-Atlantique, Ille-et-vilaine, Maine et Loire and Finistère)

Brief summary: This study evaluates the global quality of life of foreign born adopted children, one to seven years following their arrival in France. Investigators will assess global health, behavior, school integration for each child who arrived in France between 2008 and 2013, through an online anonymous survey. Investigators, then, will identify variables associated with a lower quality of life in order to improve the support offered to the children.

Detailed description: Investigators will use a known and official quality of life score: the PedsQL®. This score has never been used in this population so investigators will first have to test its internal validity, so that investigators cannot use it in their global evaluation. The second stage will consist of identifying variables associated with a lower quality of life, as previously determined. Investigators will send letters to each family through the adoption department of each area enrolled in our study, to ensure data. Parents and children will be required to login to a safe, anonymous, controlled website in order to input their data. The data will be recorded on the internal server of Nantes University Hospital. This study has been accepted by both the Computing and Liberties Commission (CNIL) and Nantes University Hospital's Ethics group in the field of Health (GNEDS) comities.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* All international adopted children, who arrived in France between 2008 and 2013, living in four French districts (Loire-Atlantique, Ille et vilaine, Maine et Loire and Finistère) and accepting to fill the on-line questionnaire of the study

Exclusion Criteria:

* Children born in France.
* Children or adoptive parents refusing to participate.

Primary outcomes:
measure: International adopted children global quality of life evaluation
timeFrame: up to 9 months
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Identification of Quality of life low score risk factors
timeFrame: up to 9 months
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References:
citation: Upton P, Eiser C, Cheung I, Hutchings HA, Jenney M, Maddocks A, Russell IT, Williams JG. Measurement properties of the UK-English version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 (PedsQL) generic core scales. Health Qual Life Outcomes. 2005 Apr 1;3:22. doi: 10.1186/1477-7525-3-22.
citation: Hjern A, Lindblad F, Vinnerljung B. Suicide, psychiatric illness, and social maladjustment in intercountry adoptees in Sweden: a cohort study. Lancet. 2002 Aug 10;360(9331):443-8. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(02)09674-5.
citation: de Monleon JV, Huet F. [Usefulness of management of adopted children born in foreign countries]. Arch Pediatr. 2000 Oct;7(10):1039-40. doi: 10.1016/s0929-693x(00)00310-9. No abstract available. French.