Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences
Iranian Journal of Medical Sciences

Level of Agreement between Children with Asthma and their Parents on Quality of Life

Document Type : Original Article(s)

Authors

Maryam Khoshkhui 1
Peyman Jafari 2
Maryam Afrasiabi 3
Marzieh Orooj 3
Sara Kashef 4

1 Department of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

2 Department of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

3 Allergy Research Center, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

4 Allergy Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Nemazee Teaching Hospital, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran

Abstract
Background: Child-parent agreement is a controversial aspect of measuring health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to assess the agreement between the child self-reports and parent proxy reports of the PedsQL 3.0 Asthma Module in Iranian children with asthma to evaluate HRQoL. Moreover, the psychometric properties of the child and parent reports of the PedsQL 3.0 Asthma Module were assessed in the present study.Methods: Participants were 112 children with asthma and their parents, who completed the Farsi version of the PedsQL 3.0 Asthma Module. The multitrait-multimethod correlation matrix and factor analysis were used to test whether the child self-reports and the parent proxy reports measured the same construct. Additionally, convergent and discriminant validity and internal consistency were assessed using the Pearson correlation.Results: The correlation between the child and parent HRQoL perceptions ranged between 0.13 and 0.36 across the same domains. Our factor analysis revealed that the child self-reports and the parent proxy reports measured 2 different constructs of HRQoL. Furthermore, our findings showed that both the child self-reports and the parent proxy reports of the PedsQL 3.0 Asthma Module had excellent internal consistency and acceptable convergent and discriminant validity.Conclusion: Although the child self-reports and the parent proxy reports of the Farsi version of PedsQL 3.0 Asthma Module showed good psychometric properties, they were not interchangeable. Our children with asthma and their parents evaluated child HRQoL from their own viewpoints.

Keywords

Asthma
Child
Parents
Quality of life
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  • Received 16 March 2014
  • Accepted 24 December 2018

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