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Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D-CHN): a school-based study in China

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Purpose

The Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D), a new generic preference-based health-related quality of life (HRQoL) instrument, was developed specifically for the application in cost-effectiveness analyses of treatments and interventions for children and adolescents. The main objective of this study was to examine the psychometric property of the Chinese version of CHU9D (CHU9D-CHN) in a large school-based sample in China.

Methods

Data were collected using a multi-stage sampling method from third-to-ninth-grade students in Shaanxi Province, China. Participants self-completed a hard-copy questionnaire including the CHU9D-CHN instrument, the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory™ 4.0 Generic Core Scales (PedsQL), information on socio-demographic characteristics and self-reported health status. The psychometric properties of the CHU9D-CHN, including the internal consistency, 2-week test–retest reliability, convergent and known-groups validity were studied.

Results

A total of 1912 students participated in the survey. The CHU9D-CHN internal consistency and test–retest reliability were good to excellent with a Cronbach’s alpha of 0.77 and an intra-class correlation coefficient of 0.65, respectively. The CHU9D utility scores moderately correlated with the PedsQL total scores (r = .57, P < .001), demonstrating good convergent validity. Difference of the CHU9D utility scores among the different participants with levels of self-reported general health, health services utilisation and left-behind status demonstrated good construct validity.

Conclusion

The findings demonstrated adequate psychometric performance for the CHU9D-CHN. The CHU9D-CHN was a satisfactory, reliable and valid instrument to measure and value HRQoL for children and adolescents in China.

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  1. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Xi’an Jiaotong University Health Science Center, No. 76 Yanta Western Road, Xi’an, 710061, Shaanxi, China

    Peirong Yang & Guihua Zhuang

  2. Baoji Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Baoji, Shaanxi, China

    Peirong Yang, Kejian Zhang, Feng Deng & Haifeng Yang

  3. Centre for Health Economics, Monash University, 15 Innovation Walk, Clayton Campus, Melbourne, VIC, 3800, Australia

    Gang Chen

  4. College of Foreign Language, Baoji University of Arts and Sciences, Baoji, China

    Peng Wang

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Ethical approval was granted by the Ethics Committee of Baoji Center for Disease Control and Prevention (Project No. 201601). All procedures performed in studies involving human participants were in accordance with the ethical standards of the institutional and/or national research committee and with the 1964 Helsinki Declaration and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards.

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Yang, P., Chen, G., Wang, P. et al. Psychometric evaluation of the Chinese version of the Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D-CHN): a school-based study in China. Qual Life Res 27, 1921–1931 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11136-018-1864-x

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