Comment on: Factors affecting quality of life in children and adolescents with thalassemia in Iraqi Kurdistan.

Mendalawi’s notion, that the use of disease specific HRQoL tool maybe more representative; however, this does not undermine our findings using a generic tool like PedsQL; especially that Klaassen et al (the creators of TranQoL) found a highly significant correlation between TranQL and PedsQL in the 55 thalassemia major patients they enrolled ( p <0.001, r =0.77). 3 However, we agree with Prof.

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