RT Journal Article
T1 Comparison of the Psychometric Properties of the EQ-5D-3L-Y and EQ-5D-5L-Y Instruments in Spanish Children and Adolescents
A1 Pérez Sousa, Miguel Ángel
A1 Olivares Sánchez-Toledo, Pedro Rufino
A1 Ramírez Vélez, Robinson
AB Objectives: The study aimed to assess the reliability and validity of EQ-5D-5L-Y and to compare the performance ofEQ-5D-5L-Y with EQ-5D-3L-Y in children and adolescents.Methods: The Spanish versions of the 3L and 5L of EQ-5D for youths, were administered to children and adolescents from thegeneral population. Feasibility and reliability were determined for the EQ-5D-5L-Y. The EQ-5D-5L-Y and EQ-5D-3L-Y wereevaluated in terms of ceiling effects, informativity, and correlations with other generic measurements of health-relatedquality of life.Results: A total of 714 healthy children and adolescents (10.7 6 2.1 years old) from the general population participated in thestudy. Most of the sample reported full health status. The feasibility and reliability for the EQ-5D-5L-Y were acceptable, butthe questionnaire showed a low convergent validity. Absolute informativity (Shannon index) showed a slight increase in alldimensions of the 5L compared with the 3L; nevertheless, there were only statistically significant differences between 5L and3L in the dimension “feeling worried, sad, or unhappy” and also on the overall system. Relative informativity (Shannonevenness index) showed a decrease in the 5L compared with 3L for all dimensions, except for “looking after myself.”Correlations with other health measurements, in both 3L and 5L, showed similar results to those observed in theinternational EQ-5D-3L-Y validation study.Conclusion: The results show that EQ-5D-5L-Y is feasible, consistent, and reliable, but there are minor differences in theceiling effect and informativity between the EQ-5D-5L-Y and EQ-5D-3L-Y versions in the general population.
PB Elsevier
SN 1098-3015
SN 1524-4733 (electrónico)
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20801
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/20801
LA eng
NO Pérez-Sousa, M. Á., Olivares, P. R., Ramírez-Vélez, R., & Gusi, N. (2021). Comparison of the Psychometric Properties of the EQ-5D-3L-Y and EQ-5D-5L-Y Instruments in Spanish Children and Adolescents. In Value in Health (Vol. 24, Issue 12, pp. 1799–1806). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jval.2021.07.006
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 1 jun 2026