Erling A, Wiklund I, Albertsson-Wikland K
Department of Pediatrics, Ostra Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden.
Qual Life Res. 1994 Dec;3(6):425-9. doi: 10.1007/BF00435394.
The well-being of children with short stature has commonly been assessed by questioning the children's parents and teachers. Few studies have included questionnaires completed by the children themselves. The aim of this study to compare how short children and their parent perceive the height and well-being of the child. A total of 80 prepubertal children who were investigated for short stature at the Children's Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden were included in the study. The Silhouette Apperception Technique (SAT) was used to estimate the perception by the child and his/her parents of the child's present stature, as well as their expectations of the child's final stature. The mean ratings of the parents' and children's perception of the child's present stature indicate that both children and parents tend to overestimate it. The mean rating of the children's expectations of final height suggests that the children have high and unrealistic expectations of achieving a tall stature. A visual analogue (VA) scale was used to assess aspects of well-being. Although the children in this study did not seem to have a negative perception of their own well-being, their parents rated the children's well-being lower. The correlation between the ratings of parents and children were comparatively low on both the SAT and the VA scale, indicating that conclusions about how children perceive their height and well-being cannot be based solely on the opinions of proxy respondents such as parents.
身材矮小儿童的健康状况通常是通过询问其父母和老师来评估的。很少有研究纳入儿童自己填写的问卷。本研究的目的是比较身材矮小的儿童及其父母如何看待孩子的身高和健康状况。共有80名青春期前儿童参与了该研究，这些儿童在瑞典哥德堡儿童医院接受了身材矮小调查。采用轮廓感知技术（SAT）来评估儿童及其父母对孩子当前身高的看法，以及他们对孩子最终身高的期望。父母和孩子对孩子当前身高看法的平均评分表明，孩子和父母都倾向于高估其身高。儿童对最终身高期望的平均评分表明，孩子们对长高有着过高且不切实际的期望。使用视觉模拟（VA）量表来评估健康状况的各个方面。尽管本研究中的儿童似乎对自己的健康状况没有负面看法，但他们的父母对孩子健康状况的评分较低。在SAT和VA量表上，父母与孩子评分之间的相关性相对较低，这表明关于儿童如何看待自己身高和健康状况的结论不能仅仅基于父母等代理受访者的意见。
