TY - JOUR
T1 - Children’s Acute Cough-Specific Quality of Life
T2 - Revalidation and Development of a Short Form
AU - Anderson-James, Sophie
AU - Newcombe, Peter A.
AU - Marchant, Julie M.
AU - Turner, Catherine T.
AU - Chang, Anne B.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank all the families who kindly participated in these studies. We also thank the Cough, Asthma and Airways Research Group for assistance with data collection in the PAC-QoL study, Kerry-Ann O’Grady for overall coordination of the ED cohort study, and Daniel Arnold and Yolanda Lovie-Toon for data management in the ED cohort study. We also thank the Pediatric Emergency Research Unit for their contribution to and support of both studies, particularly Jason Acworth and Grant Stone.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
Copyright:
Copyright 2021 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/10
Y1 - 2021/10
N2 - Purpose: Acute cough in children has a significant impact on the child and family. Relevant quality of life (QoL) instruments are essential for high-quality clinical research. This study aimed to (1) revalidate the 16-item Parent-proxy Children’s Acute Cough-specific QoL questionnaire (PAC-QoL16) using a different dataset (i.e., different children), (2) confirm the minimally important difference (MID), and (3) develop and validate a short form. Methods: Three datasets from two sources were utilized, comprising of 332 children with acute cough (< 2 weeks duration); the first dataset (n = 83, 54 boys; median age 2.04 years, IQR 1.08–4.06 years) was used for revalidation, the second dataset (n = 238, 141 boys; median age 2.17 years, IQR 1.21–4.21 years) was used to develop the short form, and the third dataset (n = 94, 62 boys; median age, 1.75 years, IQR 0.90–3.63 years) was used to confirm the short form. Psychometric properties were investigated. Results: Six items were found to account for 96.4% of the variance in the PAC-QoL16. The PAC-QoL16 and short form (PAC-QoL6) scales correlated with cough scores (rs ≤ − 0.40, p < 0.001), were internally consistent (Cronbach α = 0.94 and 0.87, respectively) and demonstrated sensitivity to change over time. A MID of 0.71 to 1.11 is recommended. Conclusion: Both the PAC-QoL16 and newly developed short form (PAC-QoL6) are reliable and valid outcome measures that assess children’s acute cough-specific QoL at a given time point, are easy to interpret and reflect changes over time. The new short form addresses the need for outcome measures to be as time effective as possible without loss of information.
AB - Purpose: Acute cough in children has a significant impact on the child and family. Relevant quality of life (QoL) instruments are essential for high-quality clinical research. This study aimed to (1) revalidate the 16-item Parent-proxy Children’s Acute Cough-specific QoL questionnaire (PAC-QoL16) using a different dataset (i.e., different children), (2) confirm the minimally important difference (MID), and (3) develop and validate a short form. Methods: Three datasets from two sources were utilized, comprising of 332 children with acute cough (< 2 weeks duration); the first dataset (n = 83, 54 boys; median age 2.04 years, IQR 1.08–4.06 years) was used for revalidation, the second dataset (n = 238, 141 boys; median age 2.17 years, IQR 1.21–4.21 years) was used to develop the short form, and the third dataset (n = 94, 62 boys; median age, 1.75 years, IQR 0.90–3.63 years) was used to confirm the short form. Psychometric properties were investigated. Results: Six items were found to account for 96.4% of the variance in the PAC-QoL16. The PAC-QoL16 and short form (PAC-QoL6) scales correlated with cough scores (rs ≤ − 0.40, p < 0.001), were internally consistent (Cronbach α = 0.94 and 0.87, respectively) and demonstrated sensitivity to change over time. A MID of 0.71 to 1.11 is recommended. Conclusion: Both the PAC-QoL16 and newly developed short form (PAC-QoL6) are reliable and valid outcome measures that assess children’s acute cough-specific QoL at a given time point, are easy to interpret and reflect changes over time. The new short form addresses the need for outcome measures to be as time effective as possible without loss of information.
KW - Acute cough
KW - Burden of illness
KW - Children
KW - Minimally important difference
KW - Quality of life
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U2 - 10.1007/s00408-021-00482-2
DO - 10.1007/s00408-021-00482-2
M3 - Article
C2 - 34623514
AN - SCOPUS:85116824524
VL - 199
SP - 527
EP - 534
JO - Lung: an international journal on lungs, airways and breathing
JF - Lung: an international journal on lungs, airways and breathing
SN - 0341-2040
ER -