Lupus in children can cause significant medical and psychosocial complications which are disruptive to the children as well as to their parents and have a great impact on everyday living.

Dr. Lakshmi Nandini Moorthy, chief of pediatric rheumatology at the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey. discusses a tool developed to measure the health related quality of life (HRQOL) among children with lupus.