Publisher DOI: | 10.3390/ijerph19138047 | Title: | Reliability and validity of the Polish version of the Esophageal-Atresia-Quality-of-Life questionnaires to assess condition-specific quality of Life in children and adolescents born with esophageal atresia | Language: | English | Authors: | Rozensztrauch, Anna Smigiel, Robert Patkowski, Dariusz Gerus, Sylwester Kłaniewska, Magdalena Quitmann, Julia Hannah ![]() Dellenmark-Blom, Michaela |
Editor: | Navarrete-Munoz, Eva Maria Valera-Gran, Desirée |
Keywords: | child; esophageal atresia; patient-reported outcome; quality oflife | Issue Date: | 30-Jun-2022 | Publisher: | MDPI | Journal or Series Name: | International journal of environmental research and public health : IJERPH | Volume: | 19 | Issue: | 13 | Abstract: | im: This study reports the reliability and validity of the Polish version of the Esophageal Atresia Quality of Life (EA-QOL) questionnaires, which were originally developed in Sweden and Germany. Methods: A total of 50 families of children (23 aged 2 to 7, and 27 aged 8 to 17) with EA/TEF (esophageal atresia/tracheoesophageal fistula) participated in the study. The development and validation of the Polish version of the EA-QOL involved forward-backward translation of the survey items following the guidelines for cross-cultural translation, cognitive debriefing and evaluation of psychometric properties, including assessment of internal and retest reliability, linguistic validity, content validity, known-group validity and convergent validity. The medical records of patients and standardized questionnaires were used to obtain clinical data. The level of significance was p < 0.05. Results: The Polish versions of the EA-QOL questionnaires demonstrated strong linguistic and content validity, are slightly discriminative for esophageal and respiratory problems, but do not show convergent validity with the PedsQL 4.0 generic core scales. In terms of reliability, the internal consistency of the subscale and total scale of Polish versions as measured by Cronbach’s alpha is good, and retest reliability is excellent. Conclusions: The Polish versions of the EA-QOL questionnaires meet most psychometric criteria that confirm the EA-QOL questionnaires’ reliability and validity. This study enables application of these questionnaires in future research among children with EA in Poland and participation in international multicenter studies focusing on advancing knowledge of condition-specific QOL in this population. Future cross-cultural research using larger sample sizes is still needed to better address the relationship between condition-specific and generic QOL, as well as the discriminative ability of the EA-QOL questionnaires. |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12738/17236 | ISSN: | 1660-4601 | Review status: | This version was peer reviewed (peer review) | Institute: | Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf | Type: | Article | Additional note: | article number: 8047 |
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