TY - JOUR
T1 - The PedsQL™ Infant Scales
T2 - Feasibility, internal consistency reliability, and validity in healthy and ill infants
AU - Varni, James W.
AU - Limbers, Christine A.
AU - Neighbors, Katie
AU - Schulz, Kris
AU - Lieu, Judith E.C.
AU - Heffer, Robert W.
AU - Tuzinkiewicz, Krista
AU - Mangione-Smith, Rita
AU - Zimmerman, Jerry J.
AU - Alonso, Estella M.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgments This research was funded in part by intramural grants from the Texas A&M University Research Foundation and the Scott and White Memorial Hospital Research Foundation.
PY - 2011/2
Y1 - 2011/2
N2 - Objective: The PedsQL™ (Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™) is a modular instrument designed to measure health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and disease-specific symptoms in children and adolescents ages 2-18. The new PedsQL™ Infant Scales were designed as a generic HRQOL instrument specifically for healthy and ill infants ages 1-24 months. The objective of this study was to report on the initial feasibility, internal consistency reliability, and validity of the PedsQL™ Infant Scales in healthy, acutely ill, and chronically ill infants. Methods: The 36-item (ages 1-12 months) and 45-item (ages 13-24 months) PedsQL™ Infant Scales (Physical Functioning, Physical Symptoms, Emotional Functioning, Social Functioning, Cognitive Functioning) were completed by 683 parents of healthy, acutely ill, and chronically ill infants. Results: The PedsQL™ Infant Scales evidenced minimal missing responses, achieved excellent internal consistency reliability for the Total Scale Scores (α = 0.92), distinguished between healthy infants and acutely and chronically ill infants, and demonstrated a confirmatory factor structure largely consistent with the a priori conceptual model. Conclusions: The results demonstrate the initial measurement properties of the PedsQL™ Infant Scales in healthy and ill infants. The findings suggest that the PedsQL™ Infant Scales may be utilized in the evaluation of generic HRQOL in infants ages 1-24 months.
AB - Objective: The PedsQL™ (Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™) is a modular instrument designed to measure health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and disease-specific symptoms in children and adolescents ages 2-18. The new PedsQL™ Infant Scales were designed as a generic HRQOL instrument specifically for healthy and ill infants ages 1-24 months. The objective of this study was to report on the initial feasibility, internal consistency reliability, and validity of the PedsQL™ Infant Scales in healthy, acutely ill, and chronically ill infants. Methods: The 36-item (ages 1-12 months) and 45-item (ages 13-24 months) PedsQL™ Infant Scales (Physical Functioning, Physical Symptoms, Emotional Functioning, Social Functioning, Cognitive Functioning) were completed by 683 parents of healthy, acutely ill, and chronically ill infants. Results: The PedsQL™ Infant Scales evidenced minimal missing responses, achieved excellent internal consistency reliability for the Total Scale Scores (α = 0.92), distinguished between healthy infants and acutely and chronically ill infants, and demonstrated a confirmatory factor structure largely consistent with the a priori conceptual model. Conclusions: The results demonstrate the initial measurement properties of the PedsQL™ Infant Scales in healthy and ill infants. The findings suggest that the PedsQL™ Infant Scales may be utilized in the evaluation of generic HRQOL in infants ages 1-24 months.
KW - Health-related quality of life
KW - Infants
KW - Patient-reported outcomes
KW - PedsQL™
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U2 - 10.1007/s11136-010-9730-5
DO - 10.1007/s11136-010-9730-5
M3 - Article
C2 - 20730626
AN - SCOPUS:79951730062
VL - 20
SP - 45
EP - 55
JO - Quality of Life Research
JF - Quality of Life Research
SN - 0962-9343
IS - 1
ER -
