title: Health Related Quality of Life Assessment questionnaire for children aged 5 to 11 years with HIV/AIDS: cross-cultural adaptation for the Portuguese language.
abstract: The objective of this study is to describe preliminary results from the cross-cultural adaptation of the Quality of Life Assessment Questionnaire, used to measure health related quality of life (HRQL) in Brazilian children aged between 5 and 11 with HIV/AIDS. The cross-cultural model evaluated the Concept, Item, Semantic and Measurement Equivalences (internal consistency and intra-observer reliability). Evaluation of the conceptual, item, semantic equivalences showed that the Portuguese version is pertinent for the Brazilian context. Four of seven domains showed internal consistency above 0.70 (α: 0.76-0.90) and five of seven revealed intra-observer reliability (ricc: 0.41-0.70). This first Portuguese version of the HRQL questionnaire can be understood as a valuable tool for assessing children's HRQL, but further studies with large samples and more robust analyses are recommended before use in the Brazilian context.
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Saúde Pública, Universidade de São Paulo, Brasil. scarla@usp.br
authors.forename: Luciana Scarlazzari
authors.initials: LS
authors.lastname: Costa
authors.forename: Maria do Rosário Dias de Oliveira
authors.initials: Mdo R
authors.lastname: Latorre
authors.forename: Norman
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Hearst
authors.forename: Heloisa Helena de Souza
authors.initials: HH
authors.lastname: Marques
mesh_terms: D001938:Brazil; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014177:Translations