Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Table 2 Scale descriptive and internal consistency for PedsQL™ 3.0 Diabetes Module child self-reports and parent proxy-reports

From: Italian translation, cultural adaptation and validation of the PedsQL™ 3.0 Diabetes Module questionnaire in children with type 1 diabetes and their parents

			95%C.I.
Subscale	N. of items	N.	Mean	Lower limit	Upper limit	S.D.	Min.	Max.	SMC	Cronbach’s α
Child self-report
Diabetes self symptoms	11	169	64.69	62.31	67.06	15.65	9.09	100	0.28	0.61
Treatment barriers	4	169	79.22	77.11	81.32	20.02	0.00	100	0.23	0.64
Treatment adherence	7	169	82.35	80.25	84.46	13.89	42.86	100	0.20	0.65
Worry	3	169	66.91	63.47	70.36	22.70	0.00	100	0.18	0.67
Communicationn	3	169	73.42	69.64	77.21	24.93	0.00	100	0.20	0.65
Total score	28	169	73.32	71.33	75.30	13.07	20.79	97.24		0.69
Parent proxy report
Diabetes symptoms	11	100	67.75	64.59	70.91	15.92	20.46	100	0.4146	0.65
Treatment barriers	4	100	71.19	67.21	75.14	20.06	0	100	0.5107	0.64
Treatment adherence	7	100	80.03	77.24	82.82	14.05	28.57	100	0.2368	0.71
Worry	3	100	66.58	61.43	71.74	25.99	0	100	0.0976	0.78
Communication	3	100	74.25	96.57	78.93	23.60	0	100	0.3748	0.69
Total score	28	100	71.96	96.21	74.71	13.87	27.19	95.68		0.74

N.: number of participants; S.D.: standard deviation; SMC: Squared Multiple Correlation (Index); 95% C.I.: 95% confidence intervals.

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