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Table 3 PedsQL™ Family Impact Module: Test-retest reliability (N = 47)

From: The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ (PedsQL™) family impact module: reliability and validity of the Brazilian version

Subscale

Sample (N = 47)

Total Impact Score

0.96 (0.92–0.97)*

Parent HRQOL Summary Score

0.95 (0.92–0.97) *

Physical Functioning

0.90 (0.82–0.94) *

Item 1: ...tired during the day

0.53#

Item 2: ...tired in the morning

0.55#

Item 3: ...feel too tired to do things

0.55#

Item 4: ...headaches

0.65#

Item 5: ...body weakness

0.60#

Item 6: ...nausea

0.77#

Emotional Functioning

0.81 (0.66–0.90) *

Item 1: ...anxiety

0.31#

Item 2: ...sadness

0.56#

Item 3: ...angry

0.54#

Item 4: ...disappointment

0.49#

Item 5: ...helplessness and hopelessness

0.65#

Social Functioning

0.93 (0.87–0.96) *

Item 1: ...isolation

0.68#

Item 2: ...difficult to get help

0.85#

Item 3: ...difficult to find time to have fun

0.60#

Item 4: ...lack of energy to have fun

0.61#

Cognitive Functioning

0.92 (0.85–0.95) *

Item 1: ...difficult to pay attention to things

0.63#

Item 2: ...difficult to remember what people tell me

0.46#

Item 3: ...difficult to remember what I have just heard

0.61#

Item 4: ...difficult to think quickly

0.60#

Item 5: ...difficult to remember what I was just thinking

0.64#

Communication

0.81 (0.65–0.89) *

Item 1: ...people do not understand my family's situation

0.45#

Item 2: ...difficult to speak about my child's illness

0.38#

Item 3: ...difficult to tell the doctors and nurses how I feel

0.61#

Worry

0.91 (0.83–0.95) *

Item 1: ...worry whether my child's treatment is working

0.66#

Item 2: ...worry about the side effects of medications

0.57#

Item 3: ...worry about how people will react to the illness

0.47#

Item 4: ...worry about how the illness affects my family

0.63#

Item 5: ...worry about my child's future

0.71#

Family Summary Score

0.95 (0.90–0.97) *

Daily Activities

0.89 (0.80–0.94) *

Item 1: ...family activities takes more time and effort

0.54#

Item 2: ...difficult to find time to finish the household chores

0.60#

Item 3: ...fatigue made it difficult to finish the household chores

0.64#

Family Relationships

0.85 (0.73–0.92) *

Item 1: ...lack of communication between people in my family

0.60#

Item 2: ...conflicts between people in my family

0.56#

Item 3: ...difficult to make group decisions in my family

0.69#

Item 4: ...difficult to solve family problems

0.73#

Item 5: ...stress and tension between people in my family

0.55#

  1. *p ≤ 0.001(2-tailed) Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) – Confidence Interval 95%
  2. #Weighted kappa Coefficient (kw) was calculated for each item