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- Title
The KIDSCREEN-27 Quality of Life Measure for Romanian Children Aged 6: Reliability and Validity of the Romanian Version.
- Authors
Ardelean, Viorel Petru; Andrei, Vasile Liviu; Miuţa, Caius Călin; Boros-Balint, Iuliana; Deak, Grațiela-Flavia; Molnar, Andor; Berki, Tamás; Győri, Ferenc; Geantă, Vlad Adrian; Dehelean, Cristina Adriana; Borcan, Florin
- Abstract
The KIDSCREEN-27 represents a standardized, worldwide instrument, employed to assess the health-related quality of life in children. The purpose of the present study is to validate the KIDSCREEN-27 questionnaire for 6-year-old preparatory school children and verify its reliability, as well as to perform a comparison regarding the quality of children's lives living in two cities in Romania: Arad, a provincial city, versus the second most developed city in the country, Cluj-Napoca. A total of 256 children of 6 years of age, who come from families with both parents, with a medium to high socioeconomic status and a good health status, were included in the analysis, using the KIDSCREEN-27 questionnaire at three assessment time points with a re-test period of two weeks. Results indicated that the KIDSCREEN-27 turned out to be suitable for use in 6-year-old Romanian children. Analysis regarding the psychometric properties showed that the Cronbach's alpha ranged from 0.554 to 0.661 at the end of the study. The Pearson correlation coefficients showed statistically significant differences between the items of each area investigated. In conclusion, there is a growing need to periodically monitor the health status of children to avoid possible problems which may occur.
- Subjects
ROMANIA; STATISTICS; RESEARCH evaluation; STATISTICAL reliability; ANALYSIS of variance; RESEARCH methodology evaluation; RESEARCH methodology; PSYCHOMETRICS; CRONBACH'S alpha; PEARSON correlation (Statistics); QUALITY of life; QUESTIONNAIRES; DATA analysis software; DATA analysis; EVALUATION; CHILDREN
- Publication
Healthcare (2227-9032), 2022, Vol 10, Issue 7, p1198
- ISSN
2227-9032
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/healthcare10071198