Jun 24 2024, 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Virtual or In-Person at Vancouver General Hospital Research Pavilion, 700-828 West 10th Avenue, Vancouver, B.C.
Join C2E2 for a spotlight session featuring Julie Ratcliffe.
The use of child-specific generic preference-based measures to assess Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQoL) facilitates the derivation of utilities for cost-utility analyses and quality assessment in pediatric populations. However, the challenges of self-assessment due to developmental and cognitive constraints often require proxy reports to complement or replace child self-reports. This presentation will discuss a mixed-methods study which revealed that younger children, particularly those between six to 10 years of age, struggled with understanding and accurately reporting HRQoL dimensions, often leading to significant discrepancies with parental proxy reports.