Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Kid-KINDLR Questionnaire for Measuring the Health-related Quality of Life of School-aged Children》.pdf

Hong Kong Journal of Occupational Therapy (2014) 24, 28e34 Available online at ScienceDirect journal homepage: ORIGINAL ARTICLE Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of the Kid-KINDLR Questionnaire for Measuring the Health-related Quality of Life of School-aged Children * Phoebe L.C. Chan , Serena S.W. Ng, Dora Y.L. Chan Department of Occupational Therapy, Kowloon Hospital, Kowloon, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China Received 23 May 2013; accepted 3 May 2014 Available online 10 August 2014 KEYWORDS Summary Objective/Background: The reliability and validity of the Chinese version of the Child Health Kid-KINDLR questionnaire were examined with school-aged children in Hong Kong. Questionnaire; Methods: A total of 112 healthy children were selected by convenience sampling from two Chinese Version of primary schools and 30 children with global developmental delay were selected from an R the Kid-KINDLR outpatient occupational therapy department of a convalescent hospital. The Kid-KINDL questionnaire; questionnaire was translated using independent forward and backward translation. The con- psychometric tent validity of the translated instrument was evaluated by four experts. Internal consis- characteristics; tency, factor analysis, and construct validity were examined in the healthy children quality of life group, whereas known-group comparison was performed in the