Child: care, health and development
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Child Care Health Dev · Jul 2007
Multicenter StudyDevelopment and preliminary validation of the 'Mind the Gap' scale to assess satisfaction with transitional health care among adolescents with juvenile idiopathic arthritis.
To develop a scale to assess satisfaction with transitional health care among adolescents with a chronic illness and their parents. ⋯ These preliminary results report the potential of the 'Mind the Gap' scale in evaluating transitional care for adolescents with JIA. In view of the generic nature of transitional care reflected in the scale, this scale has wider potential for use with adolescents with other chronic illness in view of the generic nature of transition. This development is particularly timely in the context of transitional care developments in the UK and further validation of the scale is in progress.