Open AccessSelf‐reporting on foot health status in children
Author(s) -
Morrison Stewart C,
Ferrari Jill
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of foot and ankle research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.763
H-Index - 39
ISSN - 1757-1146
DOI - 10.1186/1757-1146-8-s2-o29
Subject(s) - medicine , foot (prosody) , rehabilitation , physical therapy , orthopedic surgery , podiatry , physical medicine and rehabilitation , family medicine , alternative medicine , pathology , psychiatry , philosophy , linguistics
Background Clinicians involved in the management of children with chronic conditions are encouraged to utilise self-report outcome measures to inform clinical management and ensure patient preferences are considered throughout care provision. The use of self-report measures in the paediatric patient is not without challenges and alternative parent/proxy responders are often considered more appropriate. Despite this, the validity of parent/proxy responders reporting on behalf of children can be challenged and further work evaluating concordance between children and parents/proxy raters is needed. Through use of a foot-specific patient reported outcome measure in girls with Turner syndrome, the aim of this study was to measure agreement between children and parent/proxy responders for self-reporting on foot health.