Institute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2013 Oct;44(5):583-90. doi: 10.1007/s10578-012-0352-8.
An important assumption for comparing children's quality of life (QoL) between children's and parents' perceptions is that measurement equivalence/invariance (ME/I) exists. The ME/I across the child- and parent-reported Chinese PedsQL was examined, and the latent means between child self-reports and parent-proxy reports were compared. Third-grade to sixth-grade children (n = 519) and their parents (n = 270) respectively completed the child- and parent-reported PedsQL. Seventy-eight parents completed parent-proxy reports twice. Full ME/I across child and parent reports was found in first- and second-order factor loadings. Partial ME/I was supported in item intercepts and item residual variances. The latent means of child self-reports and of parent-proxy reports were not significantly different, which suggested interchangeability between child- and parent-reported PedsQL. The ME/I results support the use of PedsQL scores to compare children's and parents' perceptions of children's QoL.
比较儿童和家长对儿童生活质量(QoL)的感知时,一个重要的假设是测量等度量/不变性(ME/I)存在。检验了儿童和家长报告的中文 PedsQL 的 ME/I,并比较了儿童自我报告和家长代理报告之间的潜在均值。分别对三年级至六年级的儿童(n=519)及其家长(n=270)进行了儿童和家长报告的 PedsQL 调查。78 位家长分别完成了两次家长代理报告。在一阶和二阶因子负荷中发现了完全 ME/I。在项目截距和项目残差方差中支持部分 ME/I。儿童自我报告和家长代理报告的潜在均值没有显著差异,这表明 PedsQL 可在儿童自我报告和家长代理报告之间互换使用。ME/I 结果支持使用 PedsQL 分数来比较儿童和家长对儿童 QoL 的感知。