Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation
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Few comprehensive systems are available for assessing and reporting the overall health of preschool children. ⋯ The HSCS-PS is readily accepted, quick to complete, widely applicable and provides a multi-dimensional description of health status. Preliminary assessments of reliability and validity are promising. The HSCS-PS can discriminate across populations by birthweight and shows strong relationships with standardized psychometric measures in comparable domains. It can pro- vide a summary profile of functional limitations in various populations of pre-school children in a consistent manner across programs and in different settings.