Psychometric Performance of a Condition-Specific Quality-of-Life Instrument for Dutch Children Born with Esophageal Atresia.

A condition-specific instrument (EA-QOL©) to assess quality of life of children born with esophageal atresia (EA) was developed in Sweden and Germany. Before implementing this in the Netherlands, we evaluated its psychometric performance in Dutch children. After Swedish–Dutch translation, cognitive...

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Publicado en:Children Vol. 9; no. 10; pp. 1508 - 1523
Autores principales: ten Kate, Chantal A., IJsselstijn, Hanneke, Dellenmark-Blom, Michaela, van Tuyll van Serooskerken, E. Sofie, Joosten, Maja, Wijnen, René M. H., van Wijk, Michiel P.
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Publicado: MDPI Oct2022
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        atl: Psychometric Performance of a Condition-Specific Quality-of-Life Instrument for Dutch Children Born with Esophageal Atresia.
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          ten Kate, Chantal A.
          IJsselstijn, Hanneke
          Dellenmark-Blom, Michaela
          van Tuyll van Serooskerken, E. Sofie
          Joosten, Maja
          Wijnen, René M. H.
          van Wijk, Michiel P.
        affil: Department of Pediatric Surgery and Intensive Care Children, Erasmus University Medical Centre-Sophia Children's Hospital, 3015 CN Rotterdam, The Netherlands
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          Quality of Life
          Psychometrics
          Esophageal Atresia
          Questionnaires
          Instrument Validation
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          Male
          Female
          Adult
          Middle Age
          Child
          Adolescence
          Cross Sectional Studies
          Validation Studies
          Adult: 19-44 years
          Middle Aged: 45-64 years
          Child: 6-12 years
          Adolescent: 13-18 years
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      ab: A condition-specific instrument (EA-QOL©) to assess quality of life of children born with esophageal atresia (EA) was developed in Sweden and Germany. Before implementing this in the Netherlands, we evaluated its psychometric performance in Dutch children. After Swedish–Dutch translation, cognitive debriefing was conducted with a subset of EA patients and their parents. Next, feasibility, reliability, and validity were evaluated in a nationwide field test. Cognitive debriefing confirmed the predefined concepts, although some questions were not generally applicable. Feasibility was poor to moderate. In 2-to-7-year-old children, 8/17 items had >5% missing values. In 8-to-17-year-old children, this concerned 3/24 items of the proxy-report and 5/14 items of the self-report. The internal reliability was good. The retest reliability showed good correlation. The comparison reliability between self-reports and proxy-reports was strong. The construct validity was discriminative. The convergent validity was strong for the 2-to-7-year-old proxy-report, and weak to moderate for the 8-to-17-year-old proxy-report and self-report. In conclusion, the Dutch-translated EA-QOL questionnaires showed good reliability and validity. Feasibility was likely affected by items not deemed applicable to an individual child's situation. Computer adaptive testing could be a potential solution to customizing the questionnaire to the individual patient. Furthermore, cross-cultural validation studies and implementation-evaluation studies in different countries are needed.
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