Initial validation of the Argentinean Spanish version of the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales in children and adolescents with chronic diseases: acceptability and comprehensibility in low-income settings

Roizen, Mariana; Rodríguez, Susana; Bauer, Gabriela; Medin, Gabriela; Bevilacqua, Silvina; Varni, James W; Dussel, Veronica

doi:10.1186/1477-7525-6-59

Table 8 PedsQL 4.0 cross-cultural adaptation's reliability and validity. Comparison of published studies.

From: Initial validation of the Argentinean Spanish version of the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales in children and adolescents with chronic diseases: acceptability and comprehensibility in low-income settings

				Scores
Study	Sample characteristics	N	Age groups	Self-Report			Proxy Report			Reliability range	Type of Validity tested
				Total	Physical	Psychosocial	Total	Physical	Psychosocial
Our Study	Healthy Children	105	2–18 yo	72.72	75.42	71.20	82.19	86.20	79.91		Known groups validity Convergent validity Self-report/Proxy correlations
	Chronic conditions	287	2–18 yo	66.87	67.76	66.36	73.36	74.67	72.41
US Original ¹ ‡	Well-child visits, clinic visits, children who had an admission	1645	2–18 yo	79.62	80.19	79.37	80.87	81.38	80.58	0.68–0.90	Known groups validity Predictive validity Factor analysis
Austria ²	School children	1412	8–12 yo	81.9	87.8	79.9	84.9	90.6	83.1	NR	Construct validity Predictive validity
Finland ³	School children	1097	8–12 yo	81.54	85.57	78.68	77.61	79.20	76.26	0.69–0.91	Compared to US study results
Germany ⁴	Chronic conditions	41 (epilepsy)	2–17 yo	78.0	87.3	NR	76.7	84.1	NR	0.72–0.91	Known groups validity Self-report/Proxy correlations
		126 (cancer)		82.6	86.7	NR	80.4	85.0	NR	0.60–0.84
Greece ⁵	School children	645	8–12 yo	82.10	84.27	80.94	83.11	87.75	80.67	0.65–0.84	Factor analysis Self-report/Proxy correlations
Iceland ⁶	School children	480	10–12 yo	Not reported summarized						NR	Predictive validity Known groups validity
Norway ⁷	School children	425	13–15 yo	85.29	91.12	82.16	86.10	88.83	84.66	0.73–0.88	Factor analysis Convergent correlation Self-report/Proxy correlations
UK ⁸	School children	1399	2–18 yo	83.89	88.51	81.84	84.61	89.06	82.21	> 0.70	Known groups validity Self-report/Proxy correlations
	Chronic conditions	365	2–18 yo	Scores were reported for each condition but not summarized
Turkey ⁹	Healthy children, children with acute and chronic conditions	223	2–4 yo	NA	NA	NA	78.17	79.40	77.25	0.66–0.85	Known groups validity Self-report/Proxy correlations
		198	5–7 yo	71.56	72.66	70.82	72.92	69.96	74.76	0.57–0.86
Japan ¹⁰	School children	229	6–13	76.7	83.4	73.3	81.4	92.6	75.8	0.71–0.86	Known groups validity Self-report/Proxy correlations Factor analysis
	Chronic conditions	100	5–18	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
Catalunya ¹¹	School children	511	9–17 yo	81.53	88.26	79.23	-	-	-	0.76–0.80	Known groups Convergent validity (compared with KINDL scores) Predictive validity

‡ PedsQL 4.0 has undergone multiple validation studies in the US. A summary of the results and citations is provided in the introduction.
NR: Not reported
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