The researches on child QV have not been systematic and this way it has been difficult to answer the theoretical-methodological questions when the goal is to improve the diagnosis processes and the systematic assessment of health care outcomes. The aim of this study was to analyze the limits and possibilities of the main theoretical-methodological questions related to the children's QV concept, through a bibliographic research, covering the period 1995-2005. The results were similar to those works on state-of-art. It was concluded that the proliferation of instruments of QV and researches in this area have occurred without deepening of the conceptual and methodological questions and without the information provided by the children themselves.
quality of life; assessment; children
