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Abstract
Quality of life represents a broad range of human experiences related
to one’s overall well- being and may be influenced by a multitude of
nonmedical factors, such as financial status, individual freedom and one’s
own personal environment. The assessment of quality of life in clinical
trials, however , is concerned with the more defined concept of healthrelated
quality of life (HRQOL) which has been described as” the
functional effect of an illness and its consequent therapy upon a patient as
perceived by the patient”
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I These definitions emphasize that ”individuals” overall evaluations of
their satisfaction or happiness in major domains of life. Historically these
evaluations were known as ”life satisfaction” or ”subjective wellbeing” and
are now referred to as ”global QOL” or ”overall QOL”.
Psychiatric morbidity is defined as the presence of handicapping
abnormalities of emotions, behavior, and relationships that impede personal
and social functioning
Chronic illnesses 111 children and adolescents have devastating
influence on them and their families. The patients have to cope up with
illness medication and its influence on their development. Consequently a
large number of them have emotional disorders which influence the course
and outcome of physical disorder
There are general risk factors in the chronic diseases for psychiatric
morbidity and low quality of life scores:
-Incidence of disease ~plication,