Children with spina bifida in Eastern Uganda report a reasonable quality of life relative to their healthy school-attending peers

Arch Dis Child. 2019 Jan;104(1):101-102. doi: 10.1136/archdischild-2018-315044. Epub 2018 May 10.

Authors

Helen J Sims-Williams¹, Hugh P Sims-Williams², Edith Mbabazi Kabachelor³, Joshua Magombe³, Benjamin C Warf^{4

5}

Affiliations

¹ Sheffield Kidney Institute, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.
² Department of Neurosurgery, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK.
³ CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda, Mbale, Uganda.
⁴ Department of Neurosurgery, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
⁵ Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

PMID: 29748330
DOI: 10.1136/archdischild-2018-315044

No abstract available

Keywords: congenital abnorm; neurodisability; patient perspective; quality of life; tropical paediatrics.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Child
Female
Humans
Male
Population
Quality of Life*
Spinal Dysraphism* / epidemiology
Spinal Dysraphism* / psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Uganda / epidemiology
Visual Analog Scale