Huguet Anna, Miró Jordi
Department of Psychology, Rovira i Virgili University Catalonia, Spain.
J Pediatr Psychol. 2008 Jan-Feb;33(1):63-79. doi: 10.1093/jpepsy/jsm040. Epub 2007 Jun 14.
The purposes of this study were to develop and to assess the psychometric properties of a Catalan self- and interviewer-administered version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory Generic Core Scales (PedsQL) with a sample of schoolchildren, and to examine the equivalence between both versions.
511 schoolchildren aged between 9 and 17 years old participated in the study. In addition to completing a Catalan self-administered version of the PedsQL, each child was interviewed individually.
Confirmatory factor analysis did not support the original Varni's proposal. Instead, a short 12-item version was derived. The higher-order scales for both versions were internally consistent. Moreover, relationships between ratings of children's quality of life were generally significant; both versions were also found to be related with another measure of quality of life supporting their validity.
A new administration form for the PedsQL is presented in this study. The psychometric properties of both self- and interviewer-administered short 12-item versions are reassuring albeit with a few areas of improvement. Further studies are needed to investigate whether self- and interviewer-administered versions can really be considered to be comparable.
本研究旨在开发并评估加泰罗尼亚语版的儿童生活质量普适性核心量表（PedsQL），该量表有自评和访谈员施测两个版本，以在校儿童为样本进行研究，并检验两个版本之间的等效性。
511名年龄在9至17岁之间的在校儿童参与了本研究。除了完成加泰罗尼亚语版的PedsQL自评量表外，每个孩子还接受了单独访谈。
验证性因素分析不支持Varni最初的提议。取而代之的是，得出了一个由12个项目组成的简短版本。两个版本的高阶量表在内部都是一致的。此外，儿童生活质量评分之间的关系通常具有显著性；还发现两个版本都与另一种生活质量测量方法相关，这支持了它们的有效性。
本研究提出了一种新的PedsQL施测形式。自评和访谈员施测的12项简短版本的心理测量特性虽然有一些需要改进的地方，但令人放心。需要进一步研究来调查自评和访谈员施测版本是否真的可以被认为具有可比性。
