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“…Les études réunies dans cet ouvrage visent à interroger cette notion par une approche volontairement transdisciplinaire, qui met en perspective les acquis de l'histoire, de l'histoire de l'art, de l'archéologie, de la littérature comparée, de la protohistoire à la Renaissance. …”

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“…Amb aquest propòsit, s'ha triat una metodologia quantitativa consistent en dues revisions sistemàtiques per conèixer l'estat de l'art a la literatura científica. S'han aconseguit les troballes següents: s'han identificat tres instruments per mesurar la Qualitat de Vida de les famílies amb fills amb discapacitat de 0 a 6 anys; només un estudi ha demanat la informació a partir de representants dels tres subsistemes familiars i només un altre estudi ha identificat una limitació pel fet de considerar que la participació d'un sol membres de la família no és coherent amb la definició de Qualitat de Vida familiar , que és subjectiva i col·lectiva; als estudis empírics de Qualitat de Vida familiar en aquesta franja etària han mantingut la inèrcia d'una conceptualització funcional i un enfocament tradicional consistent a demanar la informació d'un sol membre de família en representació de cada unitat familiar…”
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