Table 8.
PedsQL 4.0 cross-cultural adaptation's reliability and validity. Comparison of published studies.
| Scores | |||||||||||
| Study | Sample characteristics | N | Age groups | Self-Report | Proxy Report | Reliability range | Type of Validity tested | ||||
| Total | Physical | Psychosocial | Total | Physical | Psychosocial | ||||||
| Our Study | Healthy Children | 105 | 2–18 yo | 72.72 | 75.42 | 71.20 | 82.19 | 86.20 | 79.91 | Known groups validity Convergent validity Self-report/Proxy correlations | |
| Chronic conditions | 287 | 2–18 yo | 66.87 | 67.76 | 66.36 | 73.36 | 74.67 | 72.41 | |||
| US Original1‡ | Well-child visits, clinic visits, children who had an admission | 1645 | 2–18 yo | 79.62 | 80.19 | 79.37 | 80.87 | 81.38 | 80.58 | 0.68–0.90 | Known groups validity Predictive validity Factor analysis |
| Austria2 | School children | 1412 | 8–12 yo | 81.9 | 87.8 | 79.9 | 84.9 | 90.6 | 83.1 | NR | Construct validity Predictive validity |
| Finland3 | School children | 1097 | 8–12 yo | 81.54 | 85.57 | 78.68 | 77.61 | 79.20 | 76.26 | 0.69–0.91 | Compared to US study results |
| Germany4 | Chronic conditions | 41 (epilepsy) | 2–17 yo | 78.0 | 87.3 | NR | 76.7 | 84.1 | NR | 0.72–0.91 | Known groups validity Self-report/Proxy correlations |
| 126 (cancer) | 82.6 | 86.7 | NR | 80.4 | 85.0 | NR | 0.60–0.84 | ||||
| Greece5 | School children | 645 | 8–12 yo | 82.10 | 84.27 | 80.94 | 83.11 | 87.75 | 80.67 | 0.65–0.84 | Factor analysis Self-report/Proxy correlations |
| Iceland6 | School children | 480 | 10–12 yo | Not reported summarized | NR | Predictive validity Known groups validity | |||||
| Norway7 | School children | 425 | 13–15 yo | 85.29 | 91.12 | 82.16 | 86.10 | 88.83 | 84.66 | 0.73–0.88 | Factor analysis Convergent correlation Self-report/Proxy correlations |
| UK8 | School children | 1399 | 2–18 yo | 83.89 | 88.51 | 81.84 | 84.61 | 89.06 | 82.21 | > 0.70 | Known groups validity Self-report/Proxy correlations |
| Chronic conditions | 365 | 2–18 yo | Scores were reported for each condition but not summarized | ||||||||
| Turkey9 | Healthy children, children with acute and chronic conditions | 223 | 2–4 yo | NA | NA | NA | 78.17 | 79.40 | 77.25 | 0.66–0.85 | Known groups validity Self-report/Proxy correlations |
| 198 | 5–7 yo | 71.56 | 72.66 | 70.82 | 72.92 | 69.96 | 74.76 | 0.57–0.86 | |||
| Japan10 | School children | 229 | 6–13 | 76.7 | 83.4 | 73.3 | 81.4 | 92.6 | 75.8 | 0.71–0.86 | Known groups validity Self-report/Proxy correlations Factor analysis |
| Chronic conditions | 100 | 5–18 | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | NR | ||
| Catalunya11 | School children | 511 | 9–17 yo | 81.53 | 88.26 | 79.23 | - | - | - | 0.76–0.80 | Known groups Convergent validity (compared with KINDL scores) Predictive validity |
‡ PedsQL 4.0 has undergone multiple validation studies in the US. A summary of the results and citations is provided in the introduction.
NR: Not reported
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