Selecting PedsQL items to derive the PedsUtil health state classification system to measure health utilities in children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

There is a lack of preference-based health-related quality of life (HRQoL) measures that consistently value health across a full range of child age groups. The PedsQL is a generic HRQoL instrument validated for children 2-18 years, but it is not preference-based. The objective of this study was to derive the PedsUtil health state classification system from the PedsQL as a basis for a preference-based HRQoL measure for children.

Methods

A two-step process was used to select PedsQL items to include in the health state classification system: 1) exclude poorly functioning items according to Rasch analysis in each of the previously established seven dimensions of the PedsUtil health state classification system and 2) select a single item to represent each dimension bas

SUBMITTER: Kim DeLuca E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11238509 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature