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ArticleQuality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation2019

Agreement of child and parent-proxy reported health-related quality of life in children with mental disorder.

Irina I Oltean, Mark A Ferro

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Article in Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 20 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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  4. Trajectories of health-related quality of life in youth with chronic physical illness and their siblings.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2026
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  7. Equivalence of psychiatric structured interviews and symptom checklists in predicting health-related quality of life in children with chronic physical illness.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2025
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  9. Response shift in parent-reported psychopathology in children with chronic physical illness.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2023
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  11. Psychometric properties and informant agreement of the WHODAS 2.0 in youth with mental disorder.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2023
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  15. Measuring health-related quality of life in young children with physical illness: psychometric properties of the parent-reported KIDSCREEN-27.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2022
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  16. Health-related quality of life in children with and without physical-mental multimorbidity.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2021
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  17. Trajectories of health-related quality of life in children of parents with mental health problems: results of the BELLA study.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2021
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  18. Cohort Profile: Multimorbidity in Children and Youth Across the Life-course (MY LIFE) Study.Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry = Journal de l'Academie canadienne de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent · 2021
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Irina I OlteanSchool of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada.
Mark A FerroSchool of Public Health and Health Systems, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1, Canada. mark.ferro@uwaterloo.ca.

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Canadian Institutes of Health Research 133645Hamilton Health Sciences 14363
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe purpose of the study was to test whether elevated levels of depressive and anxiety symptoms affect parent-proxy reports of health-related quality of life (HRQL) of children with mental disorder.

methodsA sample of 114 children, who screened positive for mental disorder using the Mini International Neuropsychiatric Interview were studied. Parents' depressive symptoms were measured using the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) and anxiety symptoms using the State Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI). To examine whether parental psychopathology moderated their reports of child HRQL (using the KIDSCREEN-27), a series of multiple regression analyses with product-term interactions were conducted.

resultsSignificant interactions were found for the moderating effect of parental depressive [β = 0.025 (0.007, 0.042)] and anxiety symptoms [β = 0.033 (0.011, 0.054)] on the domain of child social support and peers relations, as well as for the moderating effect of parental levels of depression on parent proxy child physical well-being [β = - 0.017 (- 0.031, - 0.003)]. Parents with elevated levels of depressive or anxiety symptoms reported lower scores for those domains of child HRQL.

conclusionsSymptoms of depression and anxiety in parents influence their reports of the HRQL of their children with mental disorder, particularly in the areas of physical well-being and social support and peers. Given the importance of patient-reported outcomes in the assessment and monitoring of children with chronic conditions, including HRQL, health professionals caring for children with mental disorder should be aware of how parental psychopathology contributes to informant bias. Future research examining why psychopathology influences parental reports of child HRQL is warranted.

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AdolescentAnxietyChildChild, PreschoolDepressionFemaleHumansMaleParentsProxyPsychotic DisordersQuality of LifeAnxietyDepressionInformant biasMental disorderProxy report

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