Table 2 Major Characteristics of Two Pediatric Health Profile Systems
Instrument | CHQ | PedsQL 4.0 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full Name | Child Health Questionnaire | Pediatric Inventory of Quality of Life | |||
Origin | 1996 | 1998 | |||
Version | Parent Forms (PF) | Parent Form for Infants & Toddlers | Youth- Completion Form | Child Self-Report Forms 1) ages 5–7 years 2) ages 8–12 years 3) ages 13–18 years | Parent Report Forms 1) ages 2–4 years 2) ages 5–7 years 3) ages 8–12 years 4) ages 13–18 years |
Measurement Constructs | Measures of physical and psycho-social health concepts | Measures of core dimensions delineated by WHO | |||
Age Bounds (years) | 5 to 17 | 2 months to 5 years | 11 to 17 | 5 to 18 | 2 to 18 |
# Items | 98 (PF98) or 50 (PF50) or 28 (PF28) short form | 102 | 87 (working on shorter form) | 23 | |
# Domains | 10 child & 4 parent concepts | 8 infant & 5 parent concepts | 10 child concepts | 4 "Generic Core" | |
Overall Score | 2 Global Physical & Global Psycho-Social | 1 overall, for primary analyses | |||
Sub-scale Scores | 14 | 13 | 10 | 4 sub-scales, for secondary and descriptive analyses | |
Completion Time (minutes) | 10 to 20 for PF50; 7 to 15 for PF28 | 20 to 30 | 15 to 30 | n/a | < 4 |
Spanish Language | Yes | Yes | |||
Assessment Perspective | Parents' | Parents' | Patients' | Patients' | Parents' |