Measuring health-related quality of life in adolescents: Agreement between raters and between methods of administration

Child: Care, Health and Development

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 457-469

  Verrips, G H W ^a   Vogels, A G C ^a   Den Ouden, A L ^a   Paneth, N ^b   Verloove Vanhorick, S P ^a  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Agreement; Proxy; Quality of life; TACQOL

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAIN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CHRONIC DISEASE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PAIN; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PSYCHOMETRICS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0034329950     PISSN: 03051862     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2214.2000.00181.x     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Aaronson, N. K. (1988) Quality of life: What is it? How should it be measured? Oncology, 2, 69-74.
2. Bellman, M. H. & Paley, C. (1993) Pain control in children: parents underestimate children's pain. British Medical Journal, 307, 1563.
3. Bullinger, M., Mackensen, S. & von Kirchberger, I. (1994) KINDL: a questionnaire for the measurement of health-related quality of life in children. Gesundheidspsychology, 2 (1), 64-77.
4. Cantwell, D. P., Lewinsohn, P. M., Rohde, P. & Seeley, J. R. (1997) Correspondence between adolescent report and parent report of psychiatric diagnostic data. Journal of the American Academy of Child Adolesc Psychiatry, 36 (5), 610-619.
5. Kenny, M. C. & Faust, J. (1997) Mother-child agreement on self-report of anxiety in abused children. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 11 (5), 463-472.
6. Magaziner, J., Zimmerman, S. I., Gruber-Baldini, A. L., Hebel, J. R. & Fox, K. M. (1997) Proxy reporting in five areas of functional status: comparison with self-reports and observations of performance. American Journal of Epidemiology, 146 (5), 418-428.
7. McHorney, C. A., Kosinkski, M. & Ware, J. E. Jr. (1994) Comparisons of the costs and quality of norms for the SF-36 health survey collected by mail versus telephone interview: results from a national survey. Medical Care, 32 (6), 551-567.
8. Sigurdardóttir, V., Brandberg, Y. & Sullivan, M. (1996) Criterion-based validation of the EORTC QLC-C36 in advanced melanoma: the CIPS questionnaire and proxy raters. Quality of Life Research, 5, 375-386.
9. Sprangers, M. A. G. & Aaronson, N. K. (1992) The role of health care providers and significant others in evaluating the quality of life of patients with chronic disease: a review. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 45, 743-760.
10. Theunissen, N. C. M., Vogels, T. G., Koopman, H. M., Verrips, G. H., Zwinderman, K. A., Verloove-Vanhorick, S. P. & Wit, J. M. (1998) The proxy problem: child report versus parent report in health-related quality of life research. Quality of Life Research, 7, 387-397.