Table 1

Inclusion criteria for children and parents entering the study

Group
Inclusion criteria

Asthma
Children aged 8–18 years with moderate/severe asthma according to definitions given by the British Thoracic Society and their parents
Diabetes
Children aged 8–18 with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus and their parents
IBD
Children aged 8–18 fulfilling diagnostic criteria for Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis and their parents
BMT
Children aged 8–18 years at least six months post treatment for ALL and their parents
Public care
Children aged 8–18 years in public care and their carers
Controls
Healthy children aged 8–18 years from local schools

Hutchings et al. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2008 6:19   doi:10.1186/1477-7525-6-19