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Research Express@NCKU Volume 25 Issue 5 - December 6, 2013 [ http://research.ncku.edu.tw/re/articles/e/20131206/1.html ]
The Cerebral Palsy Quality of Life for Children (CP
QOL-Child): Evidence of construct validity
Kuan-Lin Chen
a,b,*, Hui-Yi Wang
c, Jeng-Yi Shieh
d, Lu Lu
d, Mei-Hui Tseng
d,e, Kai-Ping Grace
Yao
f, Chien-Yu Huang
ea School of Occupational Therapy, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan.
b Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Cheng Kung University Hospital, Tainan, Taiwan.
c Department of Physical Therapy, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
d Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, National Taiwan University Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.
e School of Occupational Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan. f Department of Psychology, College of Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Research in Developmental Disabilities, Vol. 34, No. 3, 994-1000 (2013)
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he Cerebral Palsy Quality of Life for Children (CP QOL-Child) is the first health condition-specific questionnaire designed for measuring QOL in children with cerebral palsy (CP). However, its construct validity has not yet been confirmed by confirmatory factor analysis (CFA). Hence, this study assessed the construct validity of the caregiver proxy-report version of the Chinese version of the CP QOL-Child in children with CP using CFA. This is the first study using confirmatory factor analysis to evaluate the factor structure of the CP QOL-Child. The study provided evidence of the robustnessand cross-cultural generalizability of the seven-factor model of the CP QOL-Child. The evidence of construct validity based on confirmatory factor analysis in this study is important to help clinicians and researchers measure QOL of children with CP across the seven various life-related domains, and then enhance these seven aspects of QOL.
