Internationally Adopted Children Quality of Life (QUADOP)

Internationally Adopted Children Quality of Life Study (QUADOP)

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.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Quality of Life; Children
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: quality of life evaluation

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.

• Study Type: Observational
• Enrollment (Actual): 756

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 1 month to 25 years (Child, Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

• 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)

Description

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.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Number of groups / cohorts

1

Cohorts and Interventions

Group / Cohort	Intervention / Treatment
Internationally adopted children; All internationally adopted children, who arrived in France between 2008 and 2013, living in four French districts	Other: quality of life evaluation

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
International adopted children global quality of life evaluation	Global international adopted children quality of life score one to seven years after arrival in France, using a quality of life score : PedsQL®.	up to 9 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Identification of Quality of life low score risk factors	Validation of the questionnaire in our population; Highlight the determiners of a bad quality of life (after dichotomization of the population, investigators will compare participants who have a score under one standard deviation to those who have a better score).	up to 9 months

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Nantes University Hospital

Publications and helpful links

General Publications

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: September 1, 2015
• Primary Completion (Actual): March 1, 2016
• Study Completion (Actual): March 1, 2016

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: September 15, 2015
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: September 16, 2015
• First Posted (Estimate): September 17, 2015

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): May 5, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: May 4, 2016
• Last Verified: May 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: quality of life; children; adoption
• Other Study ID Numbers: RC15_0062