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Table 6 Mean Score, intra class correlation coefficients, for assessing parental agreement in rating child’s HRQOL in PedsQL™ 4.0 generic core scale

From: Assessing the effect of child’s gender on their father–mother perception of the PedsQL™ 4.0 questionnaire: an iterative hybrid ordinal logistic regression/item response theory approach with Monte Carlo simulation

PedsQL™ 4.0 generic core scales

Mean ± (SD)

Effect size

ICC

 

Mean ± (SD)

Effect size

ICC

Total

Mother

76.67 ± 13.90

0.14

0.55**

Father

78.06 + 13.50

0.03

0.52**

Daughter

78.58 ± 13.52

Daughter

78.54 + 13.55

Mother

78.11 ± 13.41

0.24

0.50**

Father

79.40 + 14.06

0.15

0.46**

Son

81.20 ± 11.86

Son

81.27 + 11.81

Physical health

Mother

75.52 ± 17.10

0.13

0.57**

Father

77.26 + 16.53

0.008

0.54**

Daughter

77.43 ± 15.90

Daughter

77.37 ± 15.93

Mother

79.91 ± 15.83

0.31

0.44**

Father

80.57 + 17.04

0.26

0.38**

Son

84.54 ± 12.77

Son

84.58 + 12.77

Emotional functioning

Mother

69.05 ± 19.02

0.06

0.48**

Father

73.30 ± 18.87

0.26

0.50**

Daughter

67.83 ± 21.66

Daughter

68.04 ± 21.31

Mother

73.12 ± 18.06

0.01

0.50**

Father

77.10 ± 17.00

0.22

0.46**

Son

72.78 ± 19.11

Son

73.07 ± 18.90

Social functioning

Mother

84.82 ± 15.48

0.17

0.43**

Father

84.71 ± 15.55

0.16

0.36**

Daughter

87.66 ± 16.25

Daughter

87.60 ± 16.31

Mother

83.64 ± 15.47

0.08

0.31**

Father

82.64 ± 17.24

0.12

0.33**

Son

85.05 ± 16.25

Son

85.10 ± 15.55

School functioning

Mother

79.37 ± 17.39

0.18

0.43**

Father

79.42 ± 17.79

0.18

0.38**

Daughter

82.17 ± 14.43

Daughter

82.21 ± 14.46

Mother

77.19 ± 17.31

0.18

0.48**

Father

78.02 ± 17.26

0.14

0.39**

Son

80.21 ± 15.87

Son

80.37 ± 15.87

Totala

Mother

76.81 ± 14.89

0.03

0.56**

Father

77.62 ± 13.68

0.06

0.57**

Daughter

77.25 ± 15.70

Daughter

76.92 ± 14.27

Mother

78.44 ± 16.21

0.20

0.44**

Father

79.54 ± 13.54

0.08

0.48**

Son

81.37 ± 12.84

Son

80.64 ± 12.48

Physical healtha

Mother

73.83 ± 18.23

0.05

0.60**

Father

75.25 ± 17.41

0.05

0.58**

Daughter

74.78 ± 17.82

Daughter

74.31 + 17.45

Mother

78.43 ± 16.32

0.27

0.44**

Father

79.50 ± 16.74

0.20

0.36**

Son

82.55 ± 14.52

Son

82.62 ± 14.34

Emotional functioninga

Mother

74.80 ± 19.67

0.01

0.47**

Father

73.50 ± 19.57

0.06

0.47**

Daughter

74.31 ± 21.79

Daughter

72.30 ± 18.67

Mother

79.57 ± 16.57

0.02

0.46**

Father

77.78 ± 16.31

0.11

0.43**

Son

79.93 ± 17.29

Son

76.06 ± 17.45

Social functioninga

Mother

91.28 + 15.27

0.05

0.39**

Father

88.33 ± 20.55

0.04

0.17**

Daughter

90.37 + 16.97

Daughter

89.13 ± 21.18

Mother

88.16 ± 16.25

0.28

0.34**

Father

80.61 ± 18.01

0.03

0.32**

Son

84.77 ± 17.02

Son

81.34 ± 21.30

School functioninga

Mother

All the items showed DIF

Father

86.60 ± 18.21

0.06

0.48**

Daughter

No corrected score existed

Daughter

85.54 ± 16.98

Mother

76.04 ± 17.07

0.11

0.48**

Father

87.57 ± 19.87

0.06

0.37**

Son

77.96 ± 17.17

Son

86.31 ± 21.02

  1. 0 = Almost always, 25 = Often, 50 = Sometimes, 75 = Almost never, 100 = Never
  2. *P ≤ 0.05; **P ≤ 0.0001; CI confidence interval, SD standard deviation, ICC intra-class correlation
  3. aScore corrected for DIF items