Assessing health-related quality of life in Japanese children with a chronic condition: validation of the DISABKIDS chronic generic module

Table 5 Correlation coefficients (Pearson r) for total score and sub-scales of the self-report and parent versions with KIDSCREEN (self-report and parent versions)

		Independence	Emotion	Social inclusion	Social exclusion	Physical limitation	Treatment	Total score
KIDSCREEN	Children
	Self-report version	0.44**	0.54^#	0.48^#	0.38**	0.37**	0.41**	0.60^#
	Parent version	0.55^#	0.55^#	0.59^#	0.56^#	0.52^#	0.39**	0.68^#
	Adolescents
	Self-report version	0.65^#	0.50^#	0.65^#	0.60^#	0.61^#	0.08	0.71^#
	Parent version	0.67^#	0.48^#	0.58^#	0.54^#	0.61^#	0.41**	0.68^#
	Cross-cultural sample^a (self/proxy)	0.70/0.79	0.84/0.92	0.68/0.74	0.77/0.83	0.70/0.79	0.80/0.85	0.91/0.94

^aThe DISABKIDS Group Europe, n = 1152, age group 8–16 (Schmidt et al., [16]) *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ^#p < 0.001

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