[PDF] Top 20 Validity and reliability of the Iranian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 (PedsQL™) Generic Core Scales in children

... of children and their parents is their different perception of the construction of the mentioned ...in children or in their parents, were similar and were included in the same fac- ...both children ... See full document

... families. Quality of life (QoL) refers to all aspects of life, including non-health related issues, while health-related QoL (HRQoL) focuses on the impacts that illness and treatment may have on QoL ... See full document

... original PedsQL™ version, except for some ...item 4 ("hard to lift something heavy") and item 8 ("low energy") are all loading on factor ... See full document

... Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) measures should be based on patient's perceptions through self-assess- ment, use understandable and age appropriate language, provide evidence of acceptable or good ... See full document

... of children with chronic health prob- lems consistently underestimated their child's ...retest reliability and responsiveness was not ...test-retest reliability may be less useful than internal ... See full document

... of children with chronic health prob- lems consistently underestimated their child's ...retest reliability and responsiveness was not ...test-retest reliability may be less useful than internal ... See full document

... the PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales scores’ differences among short stature, normal short stature and normal group were computed using con-variable test, differences between HtSDS < −3 and ... See full document

... HRQOL scales were skewed, which is to be expected in a general ...The PedsQL Total Score reliability coefficients were calculated only for those cases where all items have been completed (Ware, ... See full document

... health-related quality of life (HRQOL) has emerged as an important health outcome in clinical trials and healthcare ...the pediatric cancer population ...many pediatric cancer patients can be ... See full document

... and Generic Core Scales, and the comparison of the scores of child self-reports with those of other self-rating depression scales for ...Clinical validity was assessed by comparing the ... See full document

... the pediatric asthma prevalence rate is increasing significantly in China as well as other countries in the world ...increasing pediatric asthma prevalence rates, more and more asthma-related clinical ... See full document

... The PedsQL™ ...a 0–100 scale (i.e., 0 = 100, 1 = 75, 2 = 50, 3 = 25, 4 = 0), with higher scores indicating higher QOL ...internal reliability (Cronbach's alpha coefficients) for ... See full document

... 23-item PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales encom- passes the essential core domains for pediatric HRQOL measurement: (1) physical functioning (8 items), (2) emotional functioning (5 ... See full document

... The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ (PedsQL™) ...4.0 Generic Core Scales is a generic HRQOL instrument for children and adolescents, originally ... See full document

... related quality of life (HRQOL) has become a field of extensive research in- volving children and adolescents with ...translated version of the PedsQL TM 4.0 Generic Core ... See full document

... for children by face-to-face interview and she was also available to clarify the possible questions of the parents about the ...Persian version of the PedsQL ™ ...The PedsQL ™ ...the ... See full document

... in children moving from adolescence into adulthood, appropriate instruments and normative data are needed ...the PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales Adolescent Version for the use ... See full document

... The two studies to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Persian/Farsi MADRS are described in more detail in the sections below. In both studies, the participants were fully informed about the study ... See full document

... of pediatric patients with chronic diseases in order to ob- tain the comprehensibility of each item and the accept- ability of the ...Chinese version of the scale was suitably revised according to the ... See full document

... worse quality of life when compared with adolescents without the ...the quality of life, aimed at supporting the psychosocial and physical development of these adolescents, as well as ... See full document