%0 Journal Article %J Quality of Life Research %D 2017 %T The validation of a computer-adaptive test (CAT) for assessing health-related quality of life in children and adolescents in a clinical sample: study design, methods and first results of the Kids-CAT study %A Barthel, D. %A Otto, C. %A Nolte, S. %A Meyrose, A.-K. %A Fischer, F. %A Devine, J. %A Walter, O. %A Mierke, A. %A Fischer, K. I. %A Thyen, U. %A Klein, M. %A Ankermann, T. %A Rose, M. %A Ravens-Sieberer, U. %X Recently, we developed a computer-adaptive test (CAT) for assessing health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children and adolescents: the Kids-CAT. It measures five generic HRQoL dimensions. The aims of this article were (1) to present the study design and (2) to investigate its psychometric properties in a clinical setting. %B Quality of Life Research %V 26 %P 1105–1117 %8 May %U https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-016-1437-9 %R 10.1007/s11136-016-1437-9