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

d’Annunzio, Giuseppe; Gialetti, Sara; Carducci, Chiara; Rabbone, Ivana; Lo Presti, Donatella; Toni, Sonia; Zito, Eugenio; Bolloli, Sara; Lorini, Renata; Della Casa Alberighi, Ornella

doi:10.1186/s12955-014-0115-2

Table 5 PedsQL™ 3.0 Diabetes Module questionnaire Factor Loadings for 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

Item	Factor 1	Factor 2	Factor 3	Factor 4	Factor 5	Factor 6	Factor 7	Factor 8	Factor 9
Diabetes symptoms
1	0.402	0.278	0.529	−0.155	−0.042	0.045	0.107	0.042	0.181
2	0.209	0.052	0.83	0.175	−0.043	−0.025	0.089	0.007	−0.186
3	0.035	0.079	0.838	0.091	0.186	0.153	0.155	0.077	0.054
4	0.074	0.151	0.276	0.283	0.12	0.055	−0.111	0.719	0.147
5	0.397	0.325	0.149	−0.178	−0.098	0.129	−0.022	0.584	0.215
6	0.76	−0.032	−0.088	0.221	0.045	−0.046	0.143	0.2	−0.111
7	0.681	0.183	0.158	0.045	0.166	−0.039	0.254	0.065	0.057
8	0.466	0.154	0.012	0.172	0.07	0.333	0.021	0.128	0.562
9	0.675	0.015	0.269	0.085	0.153	0.123	−0.21	−0.107	0.044
10	0.434	0.386	0.188	0.023	0.02	0.108	0.042	0.016	−0.007
11	0.449	0.256	0.34	0.04	0.107	0.051	0.295	0.124	0.081
Treatment barriers
1	0.215	0.085	0.192	0.635	0.17	−0.041	0.199	0.049	0.425
2	0.031	0.1	0.168	0.11	−0.01	0.114	0.86	0.097	0.09
3	0.081	0.638	0.293	−0.056	0.034	0.192	0.176	0	0.205
4	0.112	0.524	0.237	−0.125	0.103	0.404	0.341	0.032	−0.05
Treatment adherence
1	−0.035	0.231	0.094	0.735	0.055	0.171	−0.124	0.006	−0.188
2	0.239	0.013	0.008	0.772	0.06	0.107	0.184	0.012	0.134
3	−0.014	0.207	0.024	0.013	0.222	0.664	0.063	0.074	0.079
4	0.317	0.318	0.198	−0.016	0.013	0.325	0.003	0.136	−0.526
5	0.026	−0.006	−0.174	−0.069	0.145	0.148	0.255	0.688	−0.239
6	−0.13	−0.073	0.044	0.348	−0.076	0.629	0.05	0.268	−0.138
7	0.16	−0.033	0.059	0.055	−0.115	0.77	0.008	−0.018	0.011
Worry
1	0.396	0.213	−0.047	0.198	0.674	−0.023	−0.069	0.015	0.094
2	0.055	−0.003	0.03	0.038	0.876	0.087	0.053	−0.045	0.019
3	0.039	−0.104	0.126	−0.007	0.8	−0.041	0.093	0.201	−0.036
Communication
1	0.081	0.697	0.021	0.454	−0.126	0	0.099	0.069	0.043
2	0.134	0.784	−0.075	0.217	0.033	−0.106	0.079	0.202	−0.187
3	0.252	0.393	0.139	0.091	0.162	−0.017	0.649	−0.041	−0.103

*Reported for ages 5 years and older.
PedsQL™3.0 for parent proxy-reports could be summarized into 9 components, which explain the 68% of the variance. Eingenvalue cut off value: 1.0; bold = highest factor loading for each item.

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