Quality of Life after Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents (QOLIBRI-KID/ADO)-The First Disease-Specific Self-Report Questionnaire after Traumatic Brain Injury.

ABSTRACT: The subjective impact of the consequences of pediatric traumatic brain injury (pTBI) on different life dimensions should be assessed multidimensionally and as sensitively as possible using a disease-specific health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instrument. The development and psychometrics of the first such self-report questionnaire for children and adolescents after TBI are reported here. Focus group interviews with children, adolescents, and their parents, cognitive debriefing, item pool generation and reduction using Delphi expert panels were performed. The resulting version was psychometrically tested on 300 individuals aged 8-17 years. After item reduction based on factor analyses, differential item functioning, reliability, and validity were investigated. The final 35 items were as

SUBMITTER: Von Steinbuechel N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10419542 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature