The DISABKIDS generic quality of life instrument showed cross-cultural validity.

TY - JOUR

T1 - The DISABKIDS generic quality of life instrument showed cross-cultural validity.

AU - Schmidt, Silke

AU - Debensason, David

AU - Mühlan, Holger

AU - Petersen-Ewert, Corinna

AU - Power, Mick

AU - Simeoni, Marie Claude

AU - Bullinger, Monika

PY - 2006

Y1 - 2006

N2 - OBJECTIVE: The aim was to test the performance of a cross-culturally developed disease-generic quality of life (QoL) measure for children with chronic diseases in a multinational clinical study. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: The study was conducted in pediatric hospitals across seven European countries in a sample of 1,153 children with seven chronic conditions, aged 8-16. The design included test and retest on child, parent, and clinical measures concerning health status, functioning, and quality of life. RESULTS: The condition-generic QoL measure showed satisfactory item and scale performance, as well as structural validity across the seven countries. There was a high agreement between the child and proxy assessment across the different countries in all subscales of the condition-generic instrument, except for socioemotional dimensions in some countries. Gender, age, and severity-adjusted covariance analyses showed significant country differences in QoL. The discriminative potential of the condition-generic measure to distinguish between clinical characteristics was higher than that of a generic measures. CONCLUSION: The psychometric performance of both items and scales of the DISABKIDS condition oriented measure was good across cultures, despite a range of cross-cultural differences. The condition-generic measure performs better in discriminating with respect to clinical characteristics than the generic measures; however, results need replication in representative studies.

AB - OBJECTIVE: The aim was to test the performance of a cross-culturally developed disease-generic quality of life (QoL) measure for children with chronic diseases in a multinational clinical study. STUDY DESIGN AND SETTING: The study was conducted in pediatric hospitals across seven European countries in a sample of 1,153 children with seven chronic conditions, aged 8-16. The design included test and retest on child, parent, and clinical measures concerning health status, functioning, and quality of life. RESULTS: The condition-generic QoL measure showed satisfactory item and scale performance, as well as structural validity across the seven countries. There was a high agreement between the child and proxy assessment across the different countries in all subscales of the condition-generic instrument, except for socioemotional dimensions in some countries. Gender, age, and severity-adjusted covariance analyses showed significant country differences in QoL. The discriminative potential of the condition-generic measure to distinguish between clinical characteristics was higher than that of a generic measures. CONCLUSION: The psychometric performance of both items and scales of the DISABKIDS condition oriented measure was good across cultures, despite a range of cross-cultural differences. The condition-generic measure performs better in discriminating with respect to clinical characteristics than the generic measures; however, results need replication in representative studies.

M3 - SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz

VL - 59

SP - 587

EP - 598

JO - J CLIN EPIDEMIOL

JF - J CLIN EPIDEMIOL

SN - 0895-4356

IS - 6

M1 - 6

ER -