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The quality of life for cancer children (QOLCC) for Taiwanese children with cancer (part II): Feasibility, cross‐informants variance and clinical validity
Author(s) -
Yeh ChaoHsing,
Hung LiChen,
Chao KuoYu
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
psycho‐oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.41
H-Index - 137
eISSN - 1099-1611
pISSN - 1057-9249
DOI - 10.1002/pon.729
Subject(s) - concordance , quality of life (healthcare) , psychology , scale (ratio) , clinical psychology , childhood cancer , ceiling effect , medicine , criterion validity , cancer , developmental psychology , psychometrics , construct validity , nursing , alternative medicine , physics , pathology , quantum mechanics
The quality of life in childhood cancer (QOLCC) is a research instrument that has been developed to assess the quality of life for children and adolescents who suffer from cancer in Taiwan. The current paper is the second of a two‐part series of research reports. Part I is reported in this journal (Yeh et al. , 2003). Part II describes the range of measurement, concordance of cross‐informants reports, and clinical validity of Taiwanese pediatric cancer children (7–12 years) and adolescents (13–18 years) and their parents/caregivers. Due to the cognitive ability of children and adolescents, data were analyzed for children and adolescent separately. The validity of cross‐referenced information between parent and child forms was subsequently examined using Pearson product correlation. The feasibility (percentage of missing values per item) and range of measurement [percentage of minimum (floor effect) and maximum (ceiling effect) possible scores] was calculated for the five QOLCC and the total scale score. The findings of medium to high correlation of the patient/parent responses strongly imply that relevant information might be obtainable through parents when children are unable or unwilling to complete the assessment instrument. Feasibility for the QOLCC was very good. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.