Measuring health-related quality of life in children with cancer living in mainland China: feasibility, reliability and validity of the Chinese mandarin version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales and 3.0 Cancer Module

Table 2 Scale descriptives for PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales child self- and parent proxy-report, and comparisons between children with cancer and healthy children scores

Scale	Children with cancer			Healthy children			Effect size*	t†
	n	Mean (SD)	%Floor/%Ceiling	n	Mean (SD)	%Floor/%Ceiling
Child Self-report
Total score	202	68.56 (17.4)	0.00/4.0	216	84.72 (16.4)	0.00/6.5	0.96	9.77
Physical functioning	202	67.96 (19.9)	0.00/11.4	216	86.33 (16.1)	0.00/18.5	1.03	10.39
Psychosocial functioning	202	69.20 (18.4)	0.00/5.1	216	84.20 (17.3)	0.00/16.2	0.86	8.59
Emotional functioning	202	68.40 (20.9)	0.00/12.9	215	80.25 (15.8)	0.00/37.2	0.68	6.57
Social functioning	202	78.31 (16.1)	0.00/19.8	216	88.16 (17.6)	0.00/39.8	0.57	5.95
School functioning	165	62.19 (22.5)	0.00/8.5	213	83.81 (16.2)	0.00/31.9	1.15	10.87
Parent Proxy-report
Total score	266	65.54 (18.8)	0.00/2.6	284	80.74 (16.9)	0.00/5.6	0.87	9.81
Physical functioning	266	66.13 (20.5)	0.38/10.9	284	82.18 (17.6)	0.00/15.8	0.92	9.88
Psychosocial functioning	266	65.06 (18.7)	0.00/4.2	284	80.09 (17.6)	0.00/15.1	0.84	9.69
Emotional functioning	266	64.07 (19.5)	0.00/11.3	284	76.90 (16.6)	0.00/33.8	0.73	8.32
Social functioning	266	73.49 (17.6)	0.00/18.8	284	85.33 (15.4)	0.00/38.0	0.70	8.42
School functioning	195	60.55 (23.6)	0.00/6.7	284	78.03 (16.5)	0.00/29.9	0.87	9.54

SD: standard deviation.
*Effect size for differences in means are designated as small (0.20-0.49), medium (0.50-0.79), and large (0.80 and above) in magnitude.
†All scale scores for the children with caner are significant differences from healthy children (p < .0.01) based on the independent sample t test.

ISSN: 1477-7525