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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2003-5-28
pubmed:abstractText
The aim of the study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the German translation of the Child Health Questionnaire (CHQ). Parents of two clinical samples were asked to rate the quality of life of their children using the German version of the CHQ. Item internal consistency (item-scale correlation) and internal consistency of scales were tested; quartiles and factor analysis were conducted. The results of the German clinical samples were compared with US clinical samples (t-test). The two clinical German sub-groups were compared using multivariate analysis (MANOVA). The psychometric testing of the CHQ showed good results. Internal consistency of the hypothesized scales were all higher than 0.70. The results of the factor analysis confirmed the results of the US norm sample: As expected, the subscales loaded on two factors explaining 57.4% of the total variance. The group comparison supported the discriminative properties of the CHQ. Preliminary psychometric findings support use of the German version of the CHQ. The next step will be the testing of healthy German samples and development of norm scores.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0962-9343
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
12
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
291-301
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Activities of Daily Living, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Asthma, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Attitude to Health, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Child, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Chronic Disease, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Dermatitis, Atopic, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Disabled Children, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Female, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Germany, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Male, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Multivariate Analysis, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Parents, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Psychometrics, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Quality of Life, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Questionnaires, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Reproducibility of Results, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Severity of Illness Index, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Sickness Impact Profile, pubmed-meshheading:12769142-Spinal Curvatures
pubmed:year
2003
pubmed:articleTitle
Health-related quality of life in children assessed by their parents: evaluation of the psychometric properties of the CHQ-PF50 in two German clinical samples.
pubmed:affiliation
Center for Clinical Psychology and Rehabilitation, University of Bremen, Germany. warschb@uni-bremen.de
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Evaluation Studies