Health related quality of life of Iranian children with type 1 diabetes: reliability and validity of the Persian version of the PedsQL™ Generic Core Scales and Diabetes Module

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes

Research

Peyman Jafari¹  Zahra Bagheri¹  Elham Forouzandeh¹  Zohreh Karamizadeh²  Keivan Shalileh³ 

[1] Department of Biostatistics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran;Department of Pediatrics, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran;Medical School, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;

关键词: quality of life;    diabetes;    validation studies;    Iran;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1477-7525-9-104

 received in 2011-05-06, accepted in 2011-11-23,  发布年份 2011

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundThe aim of this study was to measure health related quality of life (HRQOL) in Iranian children with type 1 diabetes and to test the psychometric properties of the Persian version of the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the PedsQL™ 3.0 Diabetes Module.MethodsParticipants were 94 children and adolescents diagnosed with type 1 diabetes for at least 3 months in Shiraz, southern Iran. Convergent, discriminant, and construct validity of the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the PedsQL™ 3.0 Diabetes Module were assessed. Moreover, internal consistency was checked by Cronbach's alpha coefficient.ResultsCronbach's α for the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales and the PedsQL™ 3.0 Diabetes Module was greater than 0.80 both in the child self-report and parent proxy-report. Both generic and disease-specific versions of the PedsQL showed excellent convergent and acceptable discriminant validity except for 'diabetes symptoms' subscale in the child self-report of the disease-specific module. Moreover, Iranian children with diabetes, as compared with other countries, had lower HRQOL scores.ConclusionsWhile this study showed that the Persian version of the PedsQL™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales has good psychometric properties in children with type 1 diabetes, the PedsQL™ 3.0 Diabetes Module needs some modifications to be used as a disease-specific quality of life (QOL) measure. Also, more support should be provided for the care of Iranian children with diabetes.

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