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CHILD CARE HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT
Volume 29, Issue 2, Pages 95-102Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2214.2003.00318.x
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childhood cancer survivors; proxy ratings; quality of life
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Aims To determine differences in ratings of quality of life (QOL) depending on respondent (mother or child) and implications for the validity of measures of QOL, and interpretation of scores. Method Forty-five survivors of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) and 23 survivors of central nervous system (CNS) tumours and their mothers completed a generic measure of QOL: the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (TM) Version 4.0 (PedsQL(TM) 4.0; Varni et al ., 2001). Results Although correlations between mother and survivor ratings were largely moderate to good, further analyses showed that mothers reported QOL to be worse than survivors. Both mothers and survivors rated physical health worse than psychological health, and survivors of a CNS tumour had poorer QOL than survivors of ALL. Although survivors of ALL reported reasonably good physical health, their psychosocial health was more adversely affected. Conclusions Implications for further use of the PedsQL(TM) 4.0 in the clinical or research context are discussed. Incidental findings highlight some limitations of the PedsQL(TM) 4.0 for work with this population.
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