Level of agreement between children with asthma and their parents on quality of life

ABSTRACT

Background: Child-parent agreement is a controversial aspect of measuring health-related quality of life [HRQoL] in children and adolescents. The aim of this study was to assess the agreement between the child self-reports and parent proxy reports of the PedsQL 3.0 Asthma Module in Iranian children with asthma to evaluate HRQoL. Moreover, the psychometric properties of the child and parent reports of the PedsQL 3.0 Asthma Module were assessed in the present study