Table 5.

The 11 topics relating to the child’s health related quality of life that were mentioned in both child and parent interviews. Data show the percent agreement between parent-child pairs (i.e., topics mentioned by both the parent and the child within the same family).

Topic	Number of families where topic mentioned by either parent or child	Parent-child agreement	Mentioned by child but not by parent	Mentioned by parent but not by child
Comments from others	19	4 (21%)	4 (21%)	11 (58%)
Child worry	11	1 (9%)	9 (82%)	1 (9%)
Self consciousness	11	0 (0%)	7 (64%)	4 (36%)
Appearance to others	10	3 (30%)	1 (10%)	6 (60%)
Troubled by blurriness	9	1 (11%)	7 (78%)	1 (11%)
Ocular discomfort	8	1 (13%)	6 (75%)	1 (13%)
Troubled by need to correct exotropia	7	1 (14%)	1 (14%)	5 (71%)
Wish didn’t have it	7	1 (14%)	6 (86%)	0 (0%)
Reading	6	2 (33%)	1 (17%)	3 (50%)
Self esteem	6	1 (17%)	3 (50%)	2 (33%)
Depth perception	3	0 (0%)	2 (67%)	1 (33%)