Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Texas A&M University, 3137 TAMU, College Station, TX 77843-3137, USA.
Qual Life Res. 2011 Feb;20(1):45-55. doi: 10.1007/s11136-010-9730-5. Epub 2010 Aug 22.
The PedsQL™ (Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™) is a modular instrument designed to measure health-related quality of life (HRQOL) and disease-specific symptoms in children and adolescents ages 2-18. The new PedsQL™ Infant Scales were designed as a generic HRQOL instrument specifically for healthy and ill infants ages 1-24 months. The objective of this study was to report on the initial feasibility, internal consistency reliability, and validity of the PedsQL™ Infant Scales in healthy, acutely ill, and chronically ill infants.
The 36-item (ages 1-12 months) and 45-item (ages 13-24 months) PedsQL™ Infant Scales (Physical Functioning, Physical Symptoms, Emotional Functioning, Social Functioning, Cognitive Functioning) were completed by 683 parents of healthy, acutely ill, and chronically ill infants.
The PedsQL™ Infant Scales evidenced minimal missing responses, achieved excellent internal consistency reliability for the Total Scale Scores (α = 0.92), distinguished between healthy infants and acutely and chronically ill infants, and demonstrated a confirmatory factor structure largely consistent with the a priori conceptual model.
The results demonstrate the initial measurement properties of the PedsQL™ Infant Scales in healthy and ill infants. The findings suggest that the PedsQL™ Infant Scales may be utilized in the evaluation of generic HRQOL in infants ages 1-24 months.
PedsQLTM（儿科生活质量量表）是一种模块化工具，旨在测量儿童和青少年 2-18 岁的健康相关生活质量（HRQOL）和特定疾病症状。新的 PedsQLTM 婴儿量表是专为 1-24 个月的健康和患病婴儿设计的通用 HRQOL 工具。本研究的目的是报告 PedsQLTM 婴儿量表在健康、急性病和慢性病婴儿中的初始可行性、内部一致性可靠性和有效性。
683 名健康、急性病和慢性病婴儿的父母完成了 36 项（1-12 个月龄）和 45 项（13-24 个月龄）PedsQLTM 婴儿量表（身体功能、身体症状、情绪功能、社会功能、认知功能）。
PedsQLTM 婴儿量表的缺失反应很少，总量表得分的内部一致性可靠性很高（α=0.92），可以区分健康婴儿和急性病及慢性病婴儿，并且证实了与先验概念模型基本一致的因子结构。
结果表明 PedsQLTM 婴儿量表在健康和患病婴儿中的初始测量特性。研究结果表明，PedsQLTM 婴儿量表可用于评估 1-24 个月龄婴儿的通用 HRQOL。
