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Health‐related quality of life: cross‐informant agreement of father, mother, and self‐report for children and adolescents in outpatient psychotherapy treatment
Author(s) -
Weitkamp Katharina,
Daniels Judith,
Rosenthal Sandra,
Romer Georg,
WiegandGrefe Silke
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
child and adolescent mental health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.912
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1475-3588
pISSN - 1475-357X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-3588.2012.00656.x
Subject(s) - psychology , quality of life (healthcare) , outpatient clinic , agreement , clinical psychology , psychotherapist , medicine , linguistics , philosophy
Background To study the cross‐informant agreement between father, mother harm avoidance and child rating of health‐related quality of life ( HRQ oL) in a psychiatric sample. Methods Data were obtained from 127 children and adolescents (aged 6–18) commencing outpatient psychotherapy treatment, mainly for anxiety, depressive, and externalising disorders. A total of 100 mothers, 69 fathers harm avoidance and 76 children (aged 11 years and older) filled out questionnaires. HRQ oL was measured with the KIDSCREEN ‐27. Results Cross‐informant agreement was moderate to high between parents and moderate to low between father–child and mother–child pairs. Both parents reported lower HRQ oL than the children themselves. Standardised discrepancies correlated with gender, overall and internalising pathology, as well as harm avoidance to a small degree. Conclusions Although there was moderate‐to‐high correspondence, mother and father reports were not interchangeable. When collecting a single‐parent proxy rating on the child's HRQ oL, researchers should be aware of the additional potential source of variance due to differing concordance of father and mother with the child's self‐report especially for peer relations.