Entwicklung und Überprüfung eines Auswertungsschemas für das „Interview zur Erfassung der Lebensqualität bei Kindern und Jugendlichen (D-ILK-Kinderinterview)“

Development and evaluation of an analysis pattern of the "Interview for the assessment of life quality in children" (D-ILK-childreninterview) The study on the quality of life of children and adolescents with psychiatric disorders was carried out in the clinic for child and adolescent psychiatry of the Philipps University of Marburg. 64 children and adosescents (41 children with psychiatric disorders, 23 healthy children) were asked to estimate their quality of life by the ILK-Ratingscale (Inventory for the Assessment of Life Quality in Children) and D-ILK (diagnostic interview for the Assessment of Life Quality in Children). The 9 items of the ratingscale and the interview ask among other things questions about school, family, mental and physical health. The evaluation of the children interviews was done by Qualitative Content Analysis by P. Mayring (2003) and had as a result the development of an analysis pattern (category system). 14 rater tested the analysis pattern on the basis of the existing interviews. The interrater reliability was determined by Cohen´s kappa. More than half of the 124 categories of the analysis pattern Kappas were at least in a moderate and good range. The study could show a good practicability of the D-ILK and the analysis pattern shows sufficient Cohen´s kappas. To use the pattern in praxis it needs a further modification.