The DOI matches its Crossref record; 7 of the 7 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The PedsQL™ in pediatric cancer: Reliability and validity of the pediatric quality of life inventory™ generic core scales, multidimensional fatigue scale, and cancer module
Open accessAbstract
BACKGROUND: The Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory (PedsQL) is a modular instrument designed to measure health‐related quality of life (HRQOL) in children and adolescents ages 2–18 years. The PedsQL 4.0 Generic Core Scales are multidimensional child self‐report and parent proxy‐report scales developed as the generic core measure to be integrated with the PedsQL disease specific modules. The PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale was designed to measure fatigue in pediatric patients. The PedsQL 3.0 Cancer Module was designed to measure pediatric cancer specific HRQOL. METHODS: The PedsQL Generic Core Scales, Multidimensional Fatigue Scale, and Cancer Module were administered to 339 families (220 child self‐reports; 337 parent proxy‐reports). RESULTS: Internal consistency reliability for the PedsQL Generic Core Total Scale Score (α = 0.88 child, 0.93 parent report), Multidimensional Fatigue Total Scale Score (α = 0.89 child, 0.92 parent report) and most Cancer Module Scales (average α = 0.72 child, 0.87 parent report) demonstrated reliability acceptable for group comparisons. Validity was demonstrated using the known‐groups method. The PedsQL distinguished between healthy children and children with cancer as a group, and among children on‐treatment versus off‐treatment. The validity of the PedsQL Multidimensional Fatigue Scale was further demonstrated through hypothesized intercorrelations with dimensions of generic and cancer specific HRQOL. CONCLUSIONS: The results demonstrate the reliability and validity of the PedsQL Generic Core Scales, Multidimensional Fatigue Scale, and Cancer Module in pediatric cancer. The PedsQL may be utilized as an outcome measure in clinical trials, research, and clinical practice. Cancer 2002;94:2090–106. © 2002 American Cancer Society. DOI 10.1002/cncr.10427
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Coefficient Alpha and the Internal Structure of Tests
Cronbach, L. J. (1951) · Psychometrika · doi:10.1007/bf02310555 · Cited by 43,931
Achenbach, T. M., McConaughy, S. H., & Howell, C. T. (1987) · Psychological Bulletin · doi:10.1037/0033-2909.101.2.213 · Cited by 5,436
McHorney, C. A., Ware, J. E., Rachel Lu, J. F., & Sherbourne, C. D. (1994) · Medical Care · doi:10.1097/00005650-199401000-00004 · Cited by 4,458
The PedsQL™: Measurement Model for the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory
Varni, J. W., Seid, M., & Rode, C. A. (1999) · Medical Care · doi:10.1097/00005650-199902000-00003 · Cited by 3,291
Self-citationEffects of Pediatric Chronic Physical Disorders on Child and Family Adjustment
Wallander, J. L., & Varni, J. W. (1998) · Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry · doi:10.1111/1469-7610.00302 · Cited by 716
Self-citationVarni, J. W., Thompson, K. L., & Hanson, V. (1987) · Pain · doi:10.1016/0304-3959(87)91056-6 · Cited by 502
Self-citationHann (1998) · Quality of Life Research · doi:10.1023/a:1008842517972 · Cited by 500
Research works printed but not linked: 39
- 10.1002/0470846283 · DOI · Paper page
- Spilker B, 1996, Quality of life and pharmacoeconomics in clinical trials
- Varni JW, 1999, Pediatric health‐related quality of life measurement technology: a guide for health care decision makers, J Clin Outcomes Manage., 6, 33
- 10.1023/A:1008928518577 · DOI · Paper page
- World Health Organization, 1948, Constitution of the World Health Organization basic document
- 10.1037/1040-3590.1.2.130 · DOI
- 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960915)78:6<1333::AID-CNCR24>3.0.CO;2-0 · doi:10.1002/(sici)1097-0142(19960915)78:6<1333::aid-cncr24>3.0.co;2-0
- 10.1053/sonu.2000.16577 · DOI
- 10.1300/J077V13N04_02 · DOI
- 10.1542/peds.99.2.165 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1097/00005650-199409000-00007 · DOI
- 10.1046/j.1468-2982.1996.1603183.x · DOI
- Varni JW, 1992, Screening for behavioral and emotional problems in children and adolescents with congenital or acquired limb deficiencies, Am J Dis Child, 146, 103
- 10.1023/A:1018779908502 · DOI
- 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19980315)82:6<1184::AID-CNCR25>3.0.CO;2-1 · DOI
- 10.1023/A:1018730204210 · DOI
- 10.1207/S15326888CHC2904_2 · DOI
- 10.1097/00005650-200108000-00006 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1007/BF00434800 · DOI · Paper page
- Cella D, 1997, The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Anemia (FACT‐AN) Scale: a new tool for the assessment of outcomes in cancer anemia and fatigue, Semin Hematol, 34, 13
- 10.1016/0022-3999(94)00125-O · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1046/j.1523-5394.1998.006003143.x · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1016/S0885-3924(99)00138-4 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1177/104345429801500306 · DOI
- 10.1016/0148-9062(75)90418-0 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1016/0304-3959(96)03077-1 · DOI
- 10.1016/0304-3959(86)90233-2 · DOI
- 10.1007/BF00433916 · DOI
- Aday LA, 1996, Designing and conducting health surveys: a comprehensive guide
- Fowler FJ, 1995, Improving survey questions: design and evaluation
- Schwarz N, 1996, Answering questions: methodology for determining cognitive and communicative processes in survey research
- Nunnally JC, 1994, Psychometric theory
- Pedhazur EJ, 1991, Measurement, design, and analysis: an integrated approach
- 10.1097/00005650-199303000-00006 · DOI · Paper page
- 10.1097/00005650-199205001-00025 · DOI · Paper page
- Cohen J, 1988, Statistical power analysis for the behavioral sciences
- 1998, SPSS. SPSS 8.0 for Windows
- 10.1002/bjs.1800820916 · DOI
- 10.1016/S0197-2456(05)80014-5 · DOI
Cited by
The PedsQL™ family impact module: Preliminary reliability and validity
Varni, J. W., Sherman, S. A., Burwinkle, T. M., Dickinson, P. E., & Dixon, P. (2004) · Health and Quality of Life Outcomes · doi:10.1186/1477-7525-2-55 · Cited by 699
Self-citationThe PedsQLTM 4.0 as a School Population Health Measure: Feasibility, Reliability, and Validity
Varni, J. W., Burwinkle, T. M., & Seid, M. (2006) · Quality of Life Research · doi:10.1007/s11136-005-1388-z · Cited by 412
Self-citationThe PedsQL???: Reliability and Validity of the Short-Form Generic Core Scales and Asthma Module
Chan, K. S., Mangione-Smith, R., Burwinkle, T. M., Rosen, M., & Varni, J. W. (2005) · Medical Care · doi:10.1097/00005650-200503000-00008 · Cited by 262
Self-citationPatient-reported outcomes as primary end points in clinical trials of inflammatory bowel disease
Williet, N., Sandborn, W. J., & Peyrin–Biroulet, L. (2014) · Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology · doi:10.1016/j.cgh.2014.02.016 · Cited by 260
Majeed-Ariss, R., Baildam, E., Campbell, M., Chieng, A., Fallon, D., Hall, A., McDonagh, J. E., Stones, S. R., Thomson, W., & Swallow, V. (2015) · Journal of Medical Internet Research · doi:10.2196/jmir.5043 · Cited by 251
Metadata
- Authors
- Varni, J. W., Burwinkle, T. M., Katz, E. R., Meeske, K., & Dickinson, P.
- Venue
- Cancer
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2002-03-28
- Volume
- 94
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 2090-2106
- ISSN
- 0008-543X (ISSN-L)
- 1097-0142
- OpenAlex
- W1486102782
- Cited by
- 1,448
- References
- 7
- FWCI
- 16.82
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The PedsQL™ in pediatric cancer: Reliability and validity of the pediatric quality of life inventory™ generic core scales, multidimensional fatigue scale, and cancer module. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1002/cncr.10428
- The paper
- Varni, J. W., Burwinkle, T. M., Katz, E. R., Meeske, K., & Dickinson, P. (2002). The PedsQL™ in pediatric cancer: Reliability and validity of the pediatric quality of life inventory™ generic core scales, multidimensional fatigue scale, and cancer module. Cancer. https://doi.org/10.1002/cncr.10428
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
