Agreement between child self-report and parent proxy-report to evaluate quality of life in children with cancer

Agreement between child self-report and parent proxy-report to evaluate quality of life in children with cancer

Chang PC; Yeh CH

Psycho-oncology

2005

PedPal Lit; Adolescent Adult Age Factors Child Child Development Child Welfare Female Humans Male Neoplasms/psychologyParent-Child Relations PsychometricsQuality of Life Reproducibility of Results Research Support; and comparison of group means. In addition; intraclass correlation (ICC); parent-proxy of QOL for adolescents provides significantly different information than self-report and proxy data of QOL for adolescents should be used with caution.; parents can provide valid information about their QOL. However; QOLCC) were completed by 141 patients (82 children and 59 adolescents) and 141 of their parents. Three different statistical approaches were employed to evaluate convergence of self-report and proxy-report: product-moment correction coefficient; scatter bias was used to examine the degree of differences across the range of measurement. Our findings indicate that neither Pearson product correlation

2005

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