Health related quality of life of children with rheumatic heart diseases: reliability of the Brazilian version of the pediatric quality of life inventory™ cardiac module scale

Table 1 Scale descriptives for the pediatric quality of life inventory™ generic core scale and pediatric quality of life inventory™ 3.0 cardiac module child self-report and parent proxy-report

Scale	No. items	Self-report			Proxy-report
Scale	No. items	Mean	SD	N	Mean	SD	N
Generic core scale
Total scale score	23	72.9	13.7	109	69.6	15.5	109
Physical	8	82.6	19.2	109	80.1	21.3	109
Emotional	5	70.1	15.3	109	64.7	15.9	109
Social	5	78.2	17.1	109	74.9	19.7	109
School	5	55.0	23.0	109	52.2	27.2	109
Psychosocial	15	67.8	13.5	109	63.9	15.5	109
Cardiac module
Total scale score	27 (25)*	72.8	15.0	109	68.9	16.0	109
Heart problems and treatment	7	78.5	19.9	109	77.1	22.7	109
Problems with treatment	5 (3)*	82.0	20.5	109	80.8	19.7	109
Physical appearance	3	65.0	30.3	109	66.9	30.9	109
Treatment anxiety	4	74.5	29.6	109	57.2	30.9	109
Cognitive problems	5	66.1	25.3	109	63.7	27.4	109
Communication problems	3	61.4	15.0	109	57.9	32.8	109

Psychosocial: sum of the emotional, social, and school scales. (25)* and (3)*: Number of items for children 5 to 7 years old. Higher scores on the PedsQL 4.0 Generic Scale and the PedsQL™ 3.0 Cardiac Module indicate fewer difficulties/limitations and better HRQOL.

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