[Negative behavioral changes in children and adolescents after anesthesia : Development of a German language version of the Post Hospitalization Behavior Questionnaire.]

CONCLUSION: With the German translation of the PHBQ presented here an instrument is available to detect negative behavioral changes after anesthesia in children among German speaking populations. The translation is comparable to the English version with minor differences concerning its factorial structure, which may be due to the predominant role of anxiety in all items. Like the original, this questionnaire does not per se discriminate between anesthesia and hospitalization induced behavioral changes. However, the German translation of the PHBQ is a questionnaire that is feasible for clinical routine and scientific settings and can be easily and quickly completed by caregivers.
PMID: 25445813 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Der Anaesthesist - December 3, 2014 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: Buehrer S, Klaghofer R, Weiss M, Schmitz A Tags: Anaesthesist Source Type: research