Measuring health-related quality of life in Hungarian children with heart disease: psychometric properties of the Hungarian version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the Cardiac Module

Table 7 Agreement between self-report and parent proxy-report Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and for the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 3.0 Cardiac Module scales

Scale	Intraclass correlation coefficients				Difference
	5-7 year-olds	8-12 year-olds	13-18 year-olds	All ages	Mean	P	LOA
Generic Core Scale Patient group
Total	0.68	0.78	0.62	0.71	-1.28	0.161	-20.86; 23.42
Physical functioning	0.60	0.81	0.66	0.72	-1.01	0.360	-25.76; 27.77
Psychosocial functioning	0.63	0.69	0.61	0.65	-1.45	0.152	-23.07; 25.96
Emotional functioning	0.47	0.56	0.50	0.52	-3.28	0.020	-30.75; 37.31
Social functioning	0.52	0.48	0.66	0.57	-0.86	0.529	-32.57; 34.30
School functioning	0.33	0.71	0.55	0.57	-0.48	0.722	-31.47; 32.43
Generic Core Scale Comparison group
Total	0.73	0.75	0.75	0.74	-1.01	0.052	-16.86; 18.87
Physical functioning	0.53	0.63	0.74	0.64	-2.47	0.001	-22.72; 27.66
Psychosocial functioning	0.75	0.78	0.73	0.76	-0.23	0.670	-18.25; 18.70
Emotional functioning	0.63	0.75	0.71	0.70	-1.14	0.146	-25.83; 28.10
Social functioning	0.54	0.73	0.63	0.66	0.62	0.416	-26.83; 25.60
School functioning	0.67	0.77	0.74	0.73	-0.08	0.906	-24.34; 24.51
Cardiac Module Patient group
Heart problems-symptoms	0.73	0.84	0.71	0.77	-1.29	0.145	-21.57; 24.15
Treatment II.	0.47	0.39	0.65	0.54	-0.35	0.875	-32.44; 33.14
Appearance	0.18	0.55	0.58	0.53	-5.13	0.004	-36.83; 47.08
Treatment anxiety	0.59	0.46	0.61	0.55	-8.09	0.000	-39.01; 55.20
Cognitive problems	0.67	0.61	0.68	0.65	-2.88	0.028	-29.45; 35.21
Communication	0.70	0.69	0.54	0.64	-0.85	0.626	-44.23; 45.94

Negative signs in mean difference indicate proxy-report scores being lower; LOA = Bland-Altman 95% Limits of Agreement

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