caa a22 4500 475846729 CHVBK 20180406123916.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1008923029886 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1008923029886 Performance of the EuroQol in children with imperforate anus [Elektronische Daten] [Elly Stolk, Jan Busschbach, Ton Vogels] Objective: To investigate the feasibility and validity of a proxy version of the EuroQol in children treated for imperforate anus. Methods: Patients included were between 1 and 51 years of age. Instruments included were the EuroQol, the TACQOL and a disease specific questionnaire, the Langemeijer Stool Questionnaire. Patients older than 15 years filled in all questionnaires themselves, in the age groups 5-10 and 11-15 a parent administered the questionnaires. Feasibility was judged on the number of missing values. In search of validity, EuroQol scores were compared with the prevalence of disease symptoms (convergent validity) and with the TACQOL (construct validity). Results: The number of missings was not related to age. The disease specific questionnaire correlated significantly with the EQvas from 11 years on and with the EQ-5Dindex from 5 years on. The mean correlation between contextual similar domains of the EuroQol and the TACQOL was −0.55. The correlation between different domains was −0.32. Conclusion: The results support the idea that the use of a proxy version of the EuroQol is feasible and valid. The convergent validity of the EQvas was supported from 11 years on. The EQ-5D showed good construct and convergent validity from 5 years on. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2000 Child nationallicence EuroQol nationallicence Imperforate anus nationallicence Proxy nationallicence Quality of life nationallicence TACQOL nationallicence Stolk Elly Institute for Medical Technology Assessment (iMTA), Erasmus University, Rotterdam aut Busschbach Jan Institute for Medical Technology Assessment (iMTA), Erasmus University, Rotterdam aut Vogels Ton The Leiden Child Center for Child Health and Paediatrics, Netherlands aut Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/1(2000-02-01), 29-38 0962-9343 9:1<29 2000 9 11136 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008923029886 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008923029886 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Stolk Elly Institute for Medical Technology Assessment (iMTA), Erasmus University, Rotterdam aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Busschbach Jan Institute for Medical Technology Assessment (iMTA), Erasmus University, Rotterdam aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vogels Ton The Leiden Child Center for Child Health and Paediatrics, Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Quality of Life Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 9/1(2000-02-01), 29-38 0962-9343 9:1<29 2000 9 11136 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer