Standardization of Egyptian Quality of Life Questionnaire for the Children with Cerebral Palsy
Journal Title: Journal of Medical Science And clinical Research - Year 2014, Vol 2, Issue 9
Abstract
Background: Quality of life is a global concept which is generally encompassing physical, psychological and social wellbeing. Health-related quality-of-life measurements have received an increasing recognition as an important means to measure the impact of interventions on physical, psychological and social wellbeing of subjects. Objective: The Egyptian Quality Of Life Questionnaire for the Children with Cerebral Palsy was developed by the researchers to be used in Egypt to measure the effect of interventions on the quality of life in the children with cerebral palsy. This article gives an overview of the development of the questionnaire and describes its reliability and validity testing procedures. Methods: The questionnaire was developed in local Egyptian Arabic dialect of Cairo to be understood by all Egyptian primary caregivers of different educational levels and in order to calculate the questionnaire validity and reliability it was applied to 54 mothers of cerebral palsied children and reapplied after one week for 10 cases to measure test-retest reliability also it was applied for 10 cases and correlated to another Arabic questionnaire used to measure quality of life for diabetic children to test the questionnaire criterionrelated validity. www.jmscr.igmpublication.org Impact Factor 3.79 ISSN (e)-2347-176x Mai E. Abbass et al JMSCR Volume 2 Issue 9 September 2014 Page 2381 JMSCR Volume||2||Issue||9||Page 2380-2387||September-2014 2014 Results: Research had shown that the Egyptian Quality Of Life Questionnaire for the Children with Cerebral Palsy is a reliable and valid assessment to measure quality of life of the cerebral palsied children. Conclusions: The developed Egyptian Quality Of Life Questionnaire for the Children with Cerebral Palsy is a reliable and valid tool and can be used to measure the impact of interventions on the quality of life of the cerebral palsied children.
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Mai E. Abbass
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