Development and evaluation of the children′s postoperative health-related quality of life scale for thyroid cancer
10.3760/cma.j.cn115330-20240420-00222
- VernacularTitle:儿童甲状腺癌术后健康相关生活质量量表的开发及评估
- Author:
Wei PANG
1
;
Shengcai WANG
;
Xiaodan LI
;
Yuwei LIU
;
Zhe LI
;
Yuanhu LIU
;
Yanzhen LI
;
Xuexi ZHANG
;
Qiaoyin LIU
;
Nian SUN
;
Zhiyong LIU
;
Xin NI
Author Information
1. 国家儿童医学中心 首都医科大学附属北京儿童医院耳鼻咽喉头颈外科，北京 100045
- Keywords:
Thyroid neoplasms;
Child;
Health-related quality of life;
Scale development;
Reliability;
Validity;
Postoperative intervention
- From:
Chinese Journal of Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
2024;59(11):1183-1192
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective:To develop the children′s postoperative health-related quality of life scale for thyroid cancer and to test its reliability and validity.Methods:The first draft of the scale was developed through literature search, focus group meetings, and a pre-survey, and 116 children (76 for testing and 40 for external validation) with thyroid cancer attending Beijing Children′s Hospital of Capital Medical University were selected to answer the scale, to screen and categorize the questions and to form the final scale with multiple dimensions.Results:The children′s postoperative health-related quality of life scale for thyroid cancer contained 5 dimensions and 29 questions. Exploratory factor analysis showed that the cumulative variance explained by the 5 factors was 64.343%. Confirmatory factor analysis showed correlations between the questions and dimensions of this scale, fair convergent validity for the scale, and good discriminant validity. The validity of the validity scale showed that there was a existing correlation between the questions and the validity scale of this scale. The item-dimension correlation coefficients showed that the questions in each dimension were well differentiated. The total Cronbach′s α coefficient of the scale was 0.930, the folded half reliability was 0.843, and retest reliabilities at 2 weeks, 1 month, and 3 months after the initial test were respectively 0.936, 0.922, and 0.910.Conclusion:The developed children′s postoperative health-related quality of life scale for thyroid cancer has good reliability and validity and can be used to assess the health-related quality of life of children after thyroid cancer surgery.
