Measuring health-related quality of life in children with chronic medical conditions: reliability and validity of the Arabic version of PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales

Conclusion The Arabic version of the PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales proved to be understandable and feasible to use. It showed good reliability for healthy and children with chronic medical conditions and their parents. It also shows good construct and discriminant validity properties in this setting, making this instrument suitable for research and clinical use in the Egyptian setting. The results also demonstrate the effects of pediatric chronic conditions on patient health-related quality of life across disease clusters.
Source: Middle East Current Psychiatry - Category: Psychiatry Tags: Original articles Source Type: research