ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2017
Development and refinement of the WAItE: a new obesity-specific quality of life measure for adolescents.
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- A systematic review of condition-specific preference-based measures used in young people and their valuation methods.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2024Pooled it
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- A Systematic Review of the Use and Quality of Qualitative Methods in Concept Elicitation for Measures with Children and Young People.The patient · 2020Pooled it
- Mechanisms and outcomes of a very low intensity intervention to improve parental acknowledgement and understanding of childhood overweight/obesity, embedded in the National Child Measurement Programme: A sub-study within a large cluster Randomized Controlled Trial (MapMe2).British journal of health psychology · 2025Trial
- A scoping review to create a framework for the steps in developing condition-specific preference-based instruments de novo or from an existing non-preference-based instrument: use of item response theory or Rasch analysis.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2024Article
- Valuing selected WAItE health states using the Time Trade-Off methodology: findings from an online interviewer-assisted remote survey.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2024Article
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- Implementing a weight-specific quality-of-life tool for young people in primary health care: a qualitative study.BJGP open · 2021Article
- Development of a New Quality of Life Measure for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Using Mixed Methods: The DMD-QoL.Neurology · 2021Article
- Application of Rasch Analysis for Development and Psychometric Properties of Adolescents' Quality of Life Instruments: A Systematic Review.Adolescent health, medicine and therapeutics · 2020Review
- The weight-specific adolescent instrument for economic evaluation (WAItE): psychometric evaluation using a Rasch model approach.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2019Article
- Developing the Breast Utility Instrument to Measure Health-Related Quality-of-Life Preferences in Patients with Breast Cancer: Selecting the Item for Each Dimension.MDM policy & practiceArticle
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backgroundFew weight-specific outcome measures, developed specifically for obese and overweight adolescents, exist and none are suitable for the elicitation of utility values used in the assessment of cost effectiveness.
objectivesThe development of a descriptive system for a new weight-specific measure.
methodsQualitative interviews were conducted with 31 treatment-seeking (above normal weight status) and non-treatment-seeking (school sample) adolescents aged 11-18 years, to identify a draft item pool and associated response options. 315 eligible consenting adolescents, aged 11-18 years, enrolled in weight management services and recruited via an online panel, completed two version of a long-list 29-item descriptive system (consisting of frequency and severity response scales). Psychometric assessments and Rasch analysis were applied to the draft 29-item instrument to identify a brief tool containing the best performing items and associated response options.
resultsSeven items were selected, for the final item set; all displayed internal consistency, moderate floor effects and the ability to discriminate between weight categories. The assessment of unidimensionality was supported (t test statistic of 0.024, less than the 0.05 threshold value).
conclusionsThe Weight-specific Adolescent Instrument for Economic-evaluation focuses on aspects of life affected by weight that are important to adolescents. It has the potential for adding key information to the assessment of weight management interventions aimed at the younger population.
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