in a children’s home, based on own research conducted in the Podlaskie Province

Purpose: The purpose of the study was to diagnose the quality of life (QoL) of children brought up in children’s homes, to compare findings with results for peers living in complete families. Material and methods: In the Stage I was to determine the usefulness of tools for QoL evaluation in a group of 120 children from children’s homes in the Podlaskie Province and in a group of 120 children belonging to a control group, brought up in their own families, in the same places where the children’s homes were located. Selected research tools were used in Stage II, and the study was carried out in a group of 180 children in the same children’s homes and a control group. We used the following survey questionnaires: the standardised CHQ-CF87 survey, standardised KINDL survey and Children’s Surve