TRANSLATION AND VALIDATION OF THE PEDIATRIC QUALITY OF LIFE INVENTORY (PEDSQLâ„¢ 4.0) FOR CHILDREN IN PAKISTANI CONTEXT

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Ponte Academic JournalDec 2021, Volume 77, Issue 12 TRANSLATION AND VALIDATION OF THE PEDIATRIC QUALITY OF LIFE INVENTORY (PEDSQL™ 4.0) FOR CHILDREN IN PAKISTANI CONTEXTAuthor(s): Nazia Mustafa ,Aneela MaqsoodJ. Ponte - Dec 2021 - Volume 77 - Issue 12 doi: 10.21506/j.ponte.2021.12.1 Abstract:Mental health problems often arise in childhood and adolescence and can have detrimental effects on quality of life. Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory is the most widely used instrument for assessing children and adolescent health-related quality of life and has shown excellent markers of validity and reliability. However, it is not available in all languages. The current study carried out translation and cross-language validation of Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory along with determination of factor Structure and psychometric properties of Urdu version for children in Pakistan. The study was carried out in two phases; phase I comprised of translation and cross -language validation of scale followed by phase II of investigation of the psychometric properties and factor structure of it in Pakistani culture. Urdu translated version was administered on 154 Primary School Children with age range 10 to12years (M= 10.86, S.D = .62), boys (n=92) and girls (n = 62) who were recruited from two randomly selected schools from Rawalpindi district. Preliminary analysis revealed that the overall instrument had good internal consistency and reliability (Urdu Version α = .798; English Version α = .795) as well as test-retest correlation coefficients over a period of 15 days (r = .85). Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) resulted in three factorial structures; social and school functioning (k=8), psychological functioning (k=7) and physical functioning (k=6) considered suitable for our sample instead of four factors. Bartlett's test of sphericity showed inter-correlation between variables. However, factor loadings for items 22 and 23 of School Functioning subscale were problematic. After removing both items, model was fit to the data and indicated overall Cronbach’s alpha reliability of the scale (k=21) as .87 and for subscales as .75, .77 and .73 for social/school Scale, psychological subscale and physical subscale respectively. These results supported the feasibility, reliability and validity of the Urdu version of the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory as reliable and effective tool for measurement of quality of life among Pakistani children. Download full text:Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution Username Password