Skip to main content

Advertisement

SpringerLink
Log in

Evaluating the Serbian version of the KIDSCREEN quality-of-life questionnaires: reliability, validity, and agreement between children’s and parents’ ratings

  • Brief Communication
  • Published:
Quality of Life Research Aims and scope Submit manuscript

Abstract

Purpose

To evaluate the psychometric properties of the Serbian set of the KIDSCREEN questionnaires: KIDSCREEN-52, KIDSCREEN-27, and KIDSCREEN-10 index.

Methods

The study included 330 children (8–18 years) and 314 parents. All completed the KIDSCREEN and KINDL questionnaires. Psychometric analyses included internal consistency reliability (Cronbach’s coefficient), criterion, convergent and discriminant validity, and agreement between children and parents (the intraclass correlation coefficient—ICC).

Results

Cronbach’s α of 0.7 and above was found for all except for the self-perception scale of the KIDSCREEN-52, being 0.58 for the child and 0.63 for the parent version. Correlations between similar scales in the KIDSCREEN and KINDL were substantial (ranging 0.45–65) and higher than correlations between theoretically different scales. Moderate to excellent agreement existed between children’s and parents’ ratings in all KIDSCREEN scales (ICC ranged 0.44–0.63), except for the moods and emotions from the longer (ICC = 0.34) and the social support and peers from the shorter version (ICC = 0.38).

Conclusions

Levels of internal consistency reliability and validity of all KIDSCREEN questionnaires in Serbian are appropriate, as well as agreement between children’s and parents’ ratings.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

Abbreviations

HRQOL:

Health-related quality of life

KIDSCREEN:

HRQOL questionnaire for children and adolescents

KINDL:

German HRQOL questionnaire for children and adolescents

ICC:

Intraclass correlation coefficient

References

  1. Chassany, O., Sagnier, P., Marquis, P., Fullerton, S., & Aaronson, N. (2002). Patient-reported outcomes: The example of health-related quality of life—a European guideline document for the improved integration of health-related quality of life assessment in the drug regulatory process. Drug Information Journal, 36, 209–238.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  2. Schmidt, S., & Bullinger, M. (2003). Current issues in cross-cultural quality of life instrument development. Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 84, 29–34.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Acquadro, C., Berzon, R., Dubois, D., Leidy, N. K., Marquis, P., Revicki, D., et al. (2003). Incorporating the patient’s perspective into drug development and communication: an Ad Hoc Task Force report on the Patient-Reported Outcomes (PRO) Harmonization Group meeting at the food and drug administration, February 16, 2001. Value in Health, 5, 522–531.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Ravens-Sieberer, U., & The European KIDSCREEN Group. (2006). The KIDSCREEN questionnaires—quality of life questionnaires for children and adolescents—handbook. Lengerich: Papst Science Publisher.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Ravens-Sieberer, U., Erhart, M., Wille, N., Wetzel, R., Nickel, J., & Bullinger, M. (2006). Generic health-related quality-of-life assessment in children and adolescents: Methodological considerations. Pharmacoeconomics, 24, 1119–1120.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  6. Ravens-Sieberer, U., Gosch, A., Rajmil, L., Erhart, M., Bruil, J., Power, M., et al. (2008). The KIDSCREEN-52 quality of life measure for children and adolescents: Psychometric results from a cross-cultural survey in 13 European countries. Value in Health, 11, 645–658.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  7. Ravens-Sieberer, U., Erhart, M., Rajmil, L., Herdman, M., Auquier, P., Bruil, J., et al. (2010). Reliability, construct and criterion validity of the KIDSCREEN-10 score: A short measure for children and adolescents’ well-being and health-related quality of life. Quality of Life and Research, 19, 1487–1500.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Ravens-Sieberer, U., Auquier, P., Erhart, M., Gosch, A., Rajmil, L., Bruil, J., et al. (2007). The KIDSCREEN-27 quality of life measure for children and adolescents: Psychometric results from a cross-cultural survey in 13 European countries. Quality of Life and Research, 16, 1347–1356.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Robitail, S., Simeoni, M. C., Erhart, M., Ravens-Sieberer, U., Bruil, J., Auquier, P., et al. (2006). Validation of the European proxy KIDSCREEN-52 pilot test health-related quality of life questionnaire: First results. Journal of Adolescent Health, 39, 596.e1–596.e10.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  10. Robitail, S., Simeoni, M. C., Ravens-Sieberer, U., Bruil, J., Auquier, P., & the KIDSCREEN Group. (2007). Children proxies’ quality-of-life agreement depended on the country using the European KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire. Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, 60, 469–478.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  11. Robitail, S., Ravens-Sieberer, U., Simeoni, M. C., Rajmi, I. L., Bruil, J., Power, M., et al. (2007). Testing the structural and cross-cultural validity of the KIDSCREEN-27 quality of life questionnaire. Quality of Life and Research, 16, 1335–1345.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  12. Erhart, M., Ottova, V., Gaspar, T., Jericek, H., Schnohr, C., Alikasifoglu, M., et al. (2009). Measuring mental health and well-being of school-children in 15 European countries using the KIDSCREEN-10 Index. International Journal of Public Health, 54, 160–166.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  13. Ravens-Sieberer, U., & Bullinger, M. (1998). Assessing health-related quality of life in chronically ill children with the German KINDL: First psychometric and content analytical results. Quality of Life and Research, 7, 399–407.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  14. Stevanovic, D., Lakic, A., & Vilotic, J. (2009). The psychometric study of the Serbian KINDL questionnaire for health-related quality of life assessment in children and adolescents. Scandinavian Journal of Caring Science, 23, 361–368.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. Stevanovic, D. (2009). Serbian KINDL quality of life questionnaire: Results from a replication and confirmatory factor analysis study. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 7, 79. doi:10.1186/1477-7525-7-79.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  16. Nunnally, J., & Bernstein, I. J. (1994). Psychometric theory (3rd ed.). New York: Mc-Graw-Hill.

    Google Scholar 

  17. Cohen, J. (1988). Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences (2nd ed.). Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

  18. Campbell, D. T., & Fiske, D. W. (1959). Convergent and discriminant validation by the multitrait-multimethod matrix. Psychological Bullten, 56, 81–105.

    Article  CAS  Google Scholar 

  19. Haraldstad, K., Christophersen, K. A., Eide, H., Nativg, G. K., Helseth, S., & KIDSCREEN Group Europe. (2011). Health related quality of life in children and adolescents: Reliability and validity of the Norwegian version of KIDSCREEN-52 questionnaire, a cross sectional study. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 48, 573–581.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  20. Hong, S. D., Yang, J. W., Jang, W. S., Byun, H., Lee, M. S., Kim, H. S., et al. (2007). The KIDSCREEN-52 quality of life measure for children and adolescents (KIDSCREEN-52-HRQOL): Reliability and validity of the Korean version. Journal of Korean Medical Science, 22, 446–452.

    Article  PubMed  Google Scholar 

  21. Tzavara, C., Tzonou, A., Zervas, I., Ravens-Sieberer, U., Dimitrakaki, C., & Tountas, Y. (2012). Reliability and validity of the KIDSCREEN-52 health-related quality of life questionnaire in a Greek adolescent population. Annals of General Psychiatry, 13(11), 3. doi:10.1186/1744-859X-11-3.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  22. Berra, S., Bustingorry, V., Henze, C., Díaz Mdel, P., Rajmil, L., & Butinof, M. (2009). Cross-cultural adaptation of the KIDSCREEN questionnaire to measure the health related quality of life in the 8 to 18 year-old Argentinean population. Archivos argentinos de pediatria, 107, 307–314.

    PubMed  Google Scholar 

  23. Eiser, C., & Morse, R. (2001). Quality-of-life measures in chronic diseases of childhood. Health Technololgy Assessment, 5, 1–157.

    CAS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Acknowledgments

None of the authors received grants for the present study. Darija Kisic Tepavcevic was supported by grant from the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Serbia (project no. 175087) for other projects. We are thankful to Luisacristina Carrillo-Marciano for English editing.

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Department of Psychiatry, General Hospital Sombor, Apatinski put 38, 25000, Sombor, Serbia

    Dejan Stevanovic

  2. Faculty of Pharmacy, Institute for Social Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Legislation, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Ivana Tadic

  3. Pharmacoeconomic Section, Pharmaceutical Serbian Society, Belgrade, Serbia

    Tanja Novakovic

  4. Faculty of Medicine, Institute of Epidemiology, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Darija Kisic-Tepavcevic

  5. Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, and Psychosomatics, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

    Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer

Authors
  1. Dejan Stevanovic
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Ivana Tadic
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  3. Tanja Novakovic
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  4. Darija Kisic-Tepavcevic
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  5. Ulrike Ravens-Sieberer
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Dejan Stevanovic.

Electronic supplementary material

Below is the link to the electronic supplementary material.

Supplementary material 1 (DOC 106 kb)

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Stevanovic, D., Tadic, I., Novakovic, T. et al. Evaluating the Serbian version of the KIDSCREEN quality-of-life questionnaires: reliability, validity, and agreement between children’s and parents’ ratings. Qual Life Res 22, 1729–1737 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-012-0286-4

Download citation

  • Accepted:

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-012-0286-4

Keywords

Search

Navigation