Study of consistency between asthma children's self-assessment health-related quality of life and their proxies' assessment

VernacularTitle:哮喘儿童生存质量自我评价与代理者评价的一致性研究
Author: Yingfen ZHANG ; Lifen FENG ; Caixia LIU ; Yuantao HAO
Publication Type:Journal Article
Keywords: Asthma children; Quality of life; Proxy; Consistency of scale
From: Chinese Journal of Practical Nursing 2010;26(31):64-67
CountryChina
Language:Chinese
Abstract: Objective To examine the consistency between asthma children's self-assessment health-related quality of life and their proxies' assessment, to give theoretic basis of clinical treatment for asthma children. Methods Parents and asthma children completed the PedsQLTM 4.0 Generic Core Scales and PedsQLTM 3.0 Asthma Module during an outpatient visit or in the hospital. Wilcoxon signed rank test and ICC were used to compare the difference between asthma children's self-report and their proxies' report. Results The findings indicated that neither the total scores nor domain scores (except physiological domain) between asthma children's self-reports and proxies' reports (parents most of all)showed inconsistency. The value of ICC was not less than 0.7 except physiological dimension and showed consistency. Some different information in several domains was founded by the scores after layered by age. Conclusions There are consistency between children's self assessment of health-related quality of life and their proxies' assessment based upon results of PedsQLTM scale.